Day 32
God’s Redemptive Plan
The plagues are a statement against Egypt’s False Gods :
We see in the first plague was an attack on the Hapi of the nile: Hapi (Nile god) – Wikipedia
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What was the meaning and purpose of the ten plagues of Egypt?
The Israelites are the only people God is in a relationship with.
The purpose of the plagues for the Egyptians were for them to know that God is the Lord. But still did not yield to Him. Remember the “sons of God” , including the one called satan, the accuser? These fallen angels would’ve lived in heaven with God before their fall, serving Him.THey knew the truth but they didn’t yield to God as Lord.
Exodus 8:20-21 God told Pharaoh the Egyptians are your people but the Israelites are my people.
The Exodus excerpt from THE STORY OF HIS GLORY by Stephen Hawthorne
God did more for His name than to gain early worship from Abraham. God went global in a big way at the Exodus. At first glance, the story of the Exodus doesn’t look like a great missionary event. Thousands of Egyptians died. Grief covered every Egyptian home. What was God doing?
The key passage is Exodus 9:13-16 in which Moses gives an ultimatum to Pharaoh, with a bold word about His purposes:
Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth. But indeed, for this cause I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power, and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth’(my italics).
Take note that God never said, “Let My people go!” That’s just half the sentence, without the purpose. Take care to hear the entire cry of salvation: “Let my people go, that they may worship Me!” (Ex 8:1, 20, 9:1, 13, 10:3) 4
Pharaoh well understood the entire demand of Moses that the people be released to worship.
Pharaoh probably thought that the appeal for a worship vacation was a ploy to disguise plans for escape. Perhaps many of the Hebrews made the same mistake. How many of them may have thought that the plans to worship God in the wilderness were but a ruse to dupe the authorities? Is it any wonder then that many of them remained fixated on matters of comfort, diet, safety and entertainment? They were slow to comprehend that in their escape, God had a purpose for Himself in the sight of the nations. They had turned salvation inside-out: They seriously thought that their rescue was the predominate concern of God. Instead, God was orchestrating a powerful plan to draw the attention of the nations to Himself.