Notes: February 23, 2008 – Exodus 10

Exodus 7

Plague #1 – Water turned to blood (14-25)

 

Exodus 8

Plague #2 – Frogs (1-15)

Plague #3 – Lice or gnats (16-19)

Plague #4 – Flies (20-32)

 

Exodus 9

Plague #5 – Murrain, or diseased animals (1-7)

Plague #6 – Boils (8-12)

Plague #7 – Hail (13-35)

 

Exodus 10

Plague #8 – Locusts or grasshoppers (1-20)

Plague #9 – Darkness (21-29)

 

Exodus 11

Plague #10 – Death of the firstborn sons (1-10)

 

Meditation Points:

1. That God hardened Pharaoh’s heart is clear. Too often we miss that God hardened the hearts of Pharaoh’s servants, too (Ex 10:1).

2. God intended three results from this hardening of hearts (Ex 10:1-2):

  • opportunity to show God’s power to Pharaoh
  • perpetual witness to God’s wonder-working power
  • knowledge among men that God is the LORD

3. How long…

  • will you refuse to humble yourself before God (Ex 10:3)?
  • will this man be a snare unto us (Ex 10:7)?

4. God controls the wind

  • east wind brought the locusts (Ex 10:13)
  • west wind took them away (Ex 10:19)

5. I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you (Ex 10:16). This sounds good; but, sadly, Pharaoh’s true heart is not so repentant. Consider his next statement:

Exodus 10:17  Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

6. When darkness fell on Egypt for three days, the children of Israel were not without light (Ex 10:23).

7. On worship and sacrifice:

  • Pharaoh was willing to allow Moses and the people to go and perform their religious rituals as long as they didn’t take anything for the offering (Ex 10:24).
  • Moses, on the other hand, wouldn’t attempt to worship without being prepared to give God an offering (Ex 10:25).
  • We never know what sacrifices God may ask us to make (Ex 10:26).

8. Pharaoh never wanted to see Moses again (Ex 10:28).  Be careful what you ask for  (Ex 10:29).

 

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