December 17, 2020
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Reading along with us in some Exodus? Here’s today’s reading:
Exodus 7 (NIV)
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country........Continue Reading
Curious the dark magic that must have been present and how badly Satan wanted to foil God’s plans for the Israelites that allowed Pharaoh’s magicians to replicate God’s miracles! It does remind me of how easily we can be convinced of things that are clearly of the world and against what God says in His word. This world with Satan’s help is constantly trying to discredit God’s promises, God’s Word, and God’s power. We need to stay focused on God and not let our hearts be hardened like Pharaoh!
Exodus 7
Exodus 7
Exodus 7
Exodus 7
God provides power for miracles to be performed to reveal His glory and yet allows the Egyptian magicians do the same. Satan does have power to mimic some aspects of what God does, but it is limited. Don’t you just love that Aaron’s snake eats the magicians showing that even though satan can mimic certain things, God’s power and ways are always better. It certainly gives Pharaoh a reason to reject God and His plan. It is similar to the world that develops answers and solutions that leave God out and allows them to justify their unbelief, but they are always less than God’s answers and are incomplete and don’t answer everything like God’s do.
And even though the river was turned to blood, God still provided a means for the Egyptians to get drinking water. So even in judgement there is compassion.
So begin the plagues.
I think it is a blessing that God informed Moses and Aaron that Pharoah’s heart was hard and that he would not heed them. I remember thinking it unfair that God hardened Pharoah’s heart (who am I to argue with God?) But we learned in Chapter 5 that Pharoah began defiant to God…and so the hardening of his heart does not change his original state of mind. 5:2 “And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.””
Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said
Exodus 7