The Plagues Were Against The gods Of Egypt Part 25

In this study we will take a look at the miracles that Yahweh performed on the Egyptians, when Israel was held in bondage, during this period in Exodus. We will see that those miracles were against the Egyptian deities or gods that they worshipped.

The story of Moses is not just the story of the freedom of a group of slaves from Egypt in the second millennium BCE. It is the blueprint of the Plan of Salvation of the world as seen from the structure laid down in the Bible.

 Moses was the prototype of the Christ or Messiah. More importantly, the nation of Israel saw Moses as a prototype and the Bible record illustrates that point. Moses said: ‘And Yahweh said unto me, they have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.’ (Deut. 18:17-18).

In this study I finish chapter 10  

Chapter 10

Verse 21-29 The Ninth Plague Darkness

21  And Yahweh said unto Moses = About the eleventh day of the month Abib: 

darkness = first of 4 instances of darkness in judgments. Exod. 10:22; Matt. 27:45; Jude 13; Rev. 16:10

Darkness over the land = like the third and sixth plagues, it is inflicted unannounced; and the parleying, [i.e. the conference with the enemy], the driving of a agreement and then breaking it, by which the eighth was attended, is quite enough to account for this

This plague would especially affect the spirits of the Egyptians, whose chief object of worship was Ra, the sun-god. Merneptah is depicted in a sculptured effigy with the inscription, ‘He adores the sun.’

 I READ from the 1611 King James Bible in the Apocrypha ‘The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 17 of a wonderful description of Darkness

22  And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness over all the land 

of Egypt three days = The eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days of the month Abib; with this compare the fifth vial, Rev. 16:10

23  All the children of Israel had light = By thus distinguishing the Israelites, Yahweh showed the Egyptians that the darkness was produced by His power;

27   Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart = Yahweh had yet another miracle to work for the complete conviction of the Egyptians and triumph of His people; and till that was produced He permitted the natural stubbornness of Pharaoh’s arrogant heart to have its full sway, after each resistance of the gracious influence which was intended to soften and bring him to repentance

Hardened = ‘châzaq’ ‘khaw-zak'’ ‘chet-zayin-quph’ ‘Aleph-Tav’

Chet = (tent wall) outside, divide, half

zayin = (mattack) food, cut, nourish

quph = (sun on the horizon) condense, circle, time

Aleph = (ox) strength, strong, power, leader

Tav = (cross) sign, covenant seal, mark and cross

This Hebrew word means to Seize: To grab hold tightly. To refrain or support by grabbing hold. But by adding the ‘eth’ we see that the Spirit of Yahweh/Yahshua is the one that is actually seizing Pharaoh’s heart. Why is Yahweh doing this? I believe so that all of the Egyptian deities would be defeated by the miracles perform by Yahweh/Yahshua Messiah!

28     see my face no more = ‘seek no more admittance to my presence

29     But before Moses leaves Pharaoh’s presence, he announces to him the 10th plague, in Chapter 11:4 and then leaves him for the last time in Chapter 11:8

I read from Thomas Horn Book ‘The Gods’ to close the section on the hail plague

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