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The Contest
The purpose of the plagues (Exod.
9:16) was to demonstrate God’s mighty power to the Israelites as well as to the Egyptians.
Pharaoh had the opportunity of complying with God’s will, but in the course of this experience, he hardened his heart
Samuel J. Schultz and Gary V. Smith, Exploring the Old Testament (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2001), 33.CHAPTER EIGHT
Plague of blood
1. Kh-num (guardian) of the RIVER Nile
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM TURNING THE NILE into Blood
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plagues of frogs
2. Hept (fertility and fruitfulness) depicted as a frog
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING A Multiplication Frogs
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plagues of lice
3. Geb – Egyptian god of the earth
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM TURNING DUST TO Lice
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plagues of flies
4. Khe-pri – Egyptian god of creation
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING AN Abundance of flies
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Pharaoh’s compromising offer.
Characters: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron.
If God be against us, all creatures can be made to be at war with us.
God can, as He pleases, arm the smallest parts of creation against men.
He may choose contemptible instruments to defeat one, that He might magnify His own power.
Key Word: Smitten, v. 2.
Strong Verses: 1, 2, 19.
Striking Facts: Pharaoh’s compromises are types of those Satan makes with the Christian.
“Be a Christian but stay in Egypt, or at least, don’t be so narrow as to come out entirely from the world.”
Plagues of Murrains
5. Ha-thor – Goddess of love and protection
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING A DEADLY Disease ON THE livestock died in Egypt but not in Israel
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plagues of boils
6. Isis – goddess of medicine and peace
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING Boils TO affect man and BEAST
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plague of hail
7. Nut – goddess of the sky
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING Hail TO destroy a lot of vegetation, even man and beast.
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Characters: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron.
The creature is made subject to vanity by reason of man’s sins, liable to serve man’s wickedness or share his punishment.
When judgments are abroad, they may fall both on righteous and wicked but they are not the same to one as the other in the final reckoning.
Key Word: Smitten, vv.
27, 15.
Strong Verses: 5.
Striking Facts: v. 12.
The Lord hardened his heart.
Before this, Pharaoh, hardened his own heart, resisting God’s grace.
There is a time when God gives one up to their own reprobate mind.
Wilful hardness is sooner or later punished with judicial hardness.
If men persist in shutting their eyes, God will close them.
Plague of Locusts
8. Seth – god of the crops
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING Locust (the vegetation left the locust finished off)
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Plague of Darkness
9. Ra – the sun god
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING Darkness THAT lasted 3 days
NO, I DIDN’T THINK SO
Conclusion: God’s terms of reconciliation are fixed and cannot be disputed or lowered.
Men must meet the demand of God’s will or God will permit their delusions and answer them according to their sin.
Key Word: Smitten, v. 21.
Strong Verses: 12, 17, 25.
Striking Facts: v. 11.
Godly men make a subtle compromise if they desire for their children, a position in the world, or (v.
24) if they fail to consecrate all their possessions along with themselves to Christ.
Plague of the death
Last plague.
Death of firstborn prophesied.
10.
Against all the gods of Egypt
CAN YOU STOP ME FROM SENDING THE Death ANGEL TO KILL THE FIRST BORN OF MAN AND BEAST
Where was Mesk-he-net, the goddess who presided at the birth of children?
Where was Ha-thor, one of the seven deities who attended the birth of children?
Where was Min, the god of procreation?
Where was Isis, the goddess of fertility?
Where was Selket, the guardian of life?
Where was Renenutet, the cobra-goddess and guardian of Pharaoh
Conclusion: Persistent enemies of God and His people will be made to fall under at last and those who have approved themselves, will look great in the eyes of those who have viewed them with contempt.
Key Word: Death, vv. 1, 5.
Strong Verses: 3, 7.
Striking Facts: In some way, God will always redress the injured, who in humble silence, commit their cause to Him, and in the end, they will not be losers by their adherance to Christ.
The Passover
The Passover and death of the firstborn brought this contest to an eventful climax.
Every home in the land was affected.
The Egyptian homes were made conscious of the judgment of the God of Israel in the death of the oldest son in each family.
The Israelites in every home by contrast were made conscious of God’s redeeming power as they put blood on the doorposts, ate the lamb, and then in haste made their journey out of Egypt (cf.
Matt.
26:26–28; 1 Cor.
5:7; Heb.
9:14, 15).
Samuel J. Schultz and Gary V. Smith, Exploring the Old Testament (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2001), 33.
Deliverance for Israel through the Passover.
Characters: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh.
Conclusion: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely appointed substitute and its application to the heart once for all.
If death has taken place for us, it cannot come to us.
Key Word: Passover, v. 13.
Strong Verses: 2, 13, 14, 27.
Striking Facts: v. 8. Secured by the blood, the believer feeds on the Person of the Lamb of God, roast with fire, not raw.
If Christ is not seen as the One subjected to the fires of God’s wrath against sin, one cannot feed upon Him.
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