RUSSELL SANDERS
2-11-2022
THE LIFE OF MOSES – LESSON 12
A STINKY AND ITCHY ORDEAL
The first plague (judgment) was over in seven days. The waters that had turned to blood returned to normal. We do not know if it was literal blood or if it was blood red and toxic. We know it killed fish, stank, and was unusable, and undrinkable. The magicians duplicated it with the demonic power of their false gods.
Moses was instructed to go to Pharaoh a third time, but Pharaoh still would not let them go. This brought on the second plague. Aaron stretched out his rod over the various bodies of water and it brought forth massive numbers of frogs. The magicians again duplicated this miracle of frogs. (Exodus 8:6.)
The frog was one of Egypt’s gods, but the frog-god was unable to stop this frog invasion. Pharaoh called for Moses and begged him to get rid of the frogs. He even promised to let the Hebrews go.
The next day Moses cried out to the LORD and all the frogs died. The people gathered the frogs into heaps. Piles of dead frogs were found everywhere. They rotted and the whole land stank of rotten frogs.
Pharaoh reneged on his promise. He again hardened his heart and would not let them go. His word meant nothing.
Moses now told Aaron in Exodus 8:16 to take his rod and smite the dust of the ground that it would turn into lice. Yes, the very soil itself yielded up lice throughout the land. The animals and the people were infested with them.
The magicians tried to duplicate this plague just as they had done with the bloody water and the frogs, but they could not. They told Pharaoh this and told him that this was the finger of God. It was beyond them. Pharaoh did not listen to them. His heart remained hardened. God’s miracle power now had proven to be something beyond what any of their “gods” or magicians could do.
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