Plagues…

 Plagues….

 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 

“You shall have no other gods before me.”

Exod.20.2-3

Chapters 7-12 give us a description of the plagues that God brought against the Pharaoh and his people which ultimately brought about the freedom of the Israelites from their slavery…

God had repeatedly called himself, “I am the LORD, God Almighty, I will be your God, I am the LORD your God”, when speaking to Moses. Making it clear that He was the LORD…and no other gods were as He.

I’m thought about this through our elections and through the final tallies…the response of people on both sides…no candidate is the ultimate savior from all the ills of the society or has all the answers to make everyone happy….

God is still the LORD, even today…he raises up and takes down whom  he will and His purposes still stand…just as he did in Mose’s time…

Each of the plagues had a particular reason and outcome…

1. Water turned to blood…too show that God was more powerful than the Egyptians’ god of the Nile…

2. Frogs…against the frog-headed goddess of birth..

3. Gnats…against Set, god of the desert…

4. Flies…judgment on the fly god…

5. Death of livestock…judgement on the goddess and god which looked like cattle..

6. Boils…against their gods of health and disease….

7. Hail… against their sky goddess…

8. Locust…no harvest…

9. Darkness…judgment of their sun god, Re, who was symbolized by Pharaoh…

10. Death of first born males…judgement of Isis, the protector of children.

And these judgements were on the Egyptians and not the Israelites…so when it was dark in Egypt, is was light for the Israelites and so on…

We still have to put our trust in the right God…His paths, His decisions, His power, His love…man’s gods have no power over Him…

So, important as the elections have been, the winners are still accountable to God whomever they may be, and whether they believe or not…

God is the LORD Almighty no matter what…

Thank YOU….

Pharaoh, let my people go…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R6y-xjjZw

Current song for hostages to be set free in Israel…Isaiah 41 set to music…

Isaiah 41..setting captives free…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7I77RcmHfA

https://www.gotquestions.org/ten-plagues-Egypt.html