So from the birth of Moses and his
miraculous survival to his sojourn in Egypt as God’s deliverer, savior we may
see a number of things which speak to the kind of God we serve
He delivered Israel with a mighty
hand and in so doing revealed the ultimate Passover Lamb who would Redeem and deliver
his people.
We see the hand of God in dealing
with the Pharaoh of Egypt when He sent ten plagues upon him. Why did God choose
to deal with the Pharaoh piecemeal and not by one great cataclysmic event? Well there are many reasons that may be
suggested.
Firstly, each plague pointed
definitely to the working of the power of God. And not only that, each plague
was a direct attach upon one of the specific gods of Egypt.
We may remember that when Moses
first told Pharaoh that his God sent him to tell him Pharaoh to let His people
go, Pharaoh’s response was, “Who is your God that I should let Israel go?” So God in a sense answered him.
The attack against the waters of Egypt,
turning them into blood was an attack against the Egyptian god Nilus, the river
god; frogs, Hekt, the goddess of fertility; lice and gnats against Seb, the god
of the earth; flies, or beetles, against Khephera, the scarab; the plague on
Egyptian cattle, against Apis and Hathor, their sacred bull and cow gods; boils
on man and beast, against Typhon, god of the evil-eye; hail, against Shu the
god of the atmosphere; locusts, against Serapis, protector from locusts,
darkness, against Ra, the sun god. And death of the first-born of man and beast,
Ptah, their god of life. So that the Pharaoh’s position might well have been, “You
have one God, I have many; your god can fight for you and protect you, so can
mine; so why should I fear your God?
Each time the God of Moses struck,
it at once proved the hopelessness and futility of the Egyptian gods, while at
the same time pointing and or directing the Egyptians attention to the God of
heaven; the longer the plagues lasted, the more it told the people, your gods
are useless or powerless to act against the God of Moses. More
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