BRAGADAYJAH 191

So now, let us see what the Lord is about to do to Pharaoh, and how he will react. “Now the Lord said unto Moses, I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Let us not forget Pharaoh’s last speech to Moses. “Show your face before me again and I will kill you.” Well then, Moses replied, “Yu have well spoken. But here is what my God is going to do to you. He is going to send one more plague upon you and upon all Egypt. By that plague the Lord shall kill every first born of Egypt; the first born of every Egyptian down to that of the very maids at work. And what is more, not a single Israelite shall be affected; if you walk in the place where the Israelites are, you shall not even hear a single dog bark that night.” “It will be a slaughter; the worst, the most horrible slaughter ever heard of. That night shall be a night of deep and terrible sorrow and weeping; the kind of lamentation never before heard on earth.” “And at that time you will let Israel go. Not only would you let us go, you will beg me on your hands and knees, please go and take your people with you.” The Pharaoh listened; he heard; but he was not convinced. He had been made to drink blood, plagued with frogs, and lice, and flies, locusts, darkness and such; but he lived through it all. And so he called Moses bluff; so why should he buckle under now? He continued to harden his heart. It is the attitude of sin, particularly the sin of arrogance, stubbornness and pride, conditions not uncommon among men and women even today. Once that heart is set with sin, it is very difficult to budge. But God will always have His way with us, as He was about to do with Pharaoh.