The Plagues Were Against The gods Of Egypt Part 26

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 begin in Exodus Chapter 11

The warning of the Last Plague

1                       The Lord said = Or “Yahweh had said.” The first three verses of this chapter are parenthetical. Before Moses relates the last warning given to Pharaoh, he feels it right to recall to his readers’ minds the revelation and command which had been previously given to him by Yahweh.

2                       borrow = shaw-al, request or ask

3                       And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, = So that they freely and willingly lent them the things they asked of them; which seems to be said by way of anticipation, for this was not done until the following plague was inflicted, see Exod.12:35, 

 The people = ‘am’ ‘ayin-mem’ ‘Aleph-tav’

Ayin = (eye) watch, know, shade (this letter is basically silent) 

Mem = (water) chaos, blood, mighty

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

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

 The Hebrew Letter ‘ayin’is a picture of the eye, the Hebrew Letter ‘mem’ is a picture of the sea representing mass. Combined these mean "see a mass". A large group of people in one location. But when we add the ‘eth’ ‘Alpeh-Tav’ we are not talking about any group of people, but Yahweh/Yahshua Messiah’s Elect.

5                       that sitteth upon his throne = this phrase to Pharaoh and not to the eldest son.

   First-born of the maidservant = the meanest person in the kingdom is contrasted with the noblest. Grinding the corn, the lowest labor, was the work of women, slaves and captives. Two portable millstones are used for the purpose, of which the uppermost is turned by a small wooden handle and during the operation the maid sits behind the mill

   First-born of beasts = the plague of the cattle described in Chapter 9:6 was limited to the ‘cattle which are in the field’. The Hebrew word for cattle in 9:6 is ‘mikneh’, whereas here the word ‘behemah’ is used. The Egyptians paid divine honors to various animals; and the first born of all these beasts were to be doomed.

6                       And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt = Of parents for the loss of their firstborn sons, their heirs, the support and glory of their families; children for the loss of their elder brethren; and servants for the loss of the prime and principal in their masters' houses; and all in a dreadful fright, expecting instantly death themselves. 

I read from Thomas Horn Book ‘The Gods’ PDF page 82, to close the section on the death of the firstborn.

Book of Wisdom of the Apocrypha Chapter 17

Wis 17:1

For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed:

therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

 

Wis 17:2

For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation;

they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness,

and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay [there] exiled

from the eternal providence.

 

Wis 17:3

For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they

were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being

horribly astonished, and troubled with [strange] apparitions.

 

Wis 17:4

For neither might the corner that held them keep them from

fear: but noises [as of waters] falling down sounded about them,

and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.

 

Wis 17:5

No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the

bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible

night.

7                       But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast = That is, no hurt should be done to man or beast among them, to the firstborn of either of them, so there would be no noise or cry in their dwellings, but the profoundest silence, stillness, and quietness among them

that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel = by preserving them and theirs, when the firstborn of Egypt were destroyed, and by causing stillness and quietness among them when there was an hideous outcry and doleful lamentation among the Egyptians; and by bringing Israel quietly out from among them, none offering to give the least molestation.

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