Exodus 10:21–29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the ninth plague, the plague of darkness. And we must understand that in this entire contest between Moses and Pharaoh, we are not watching a mere political negotiation over labor rights. We are witnessing a cosmic collision of two kingdoms, two gods, and two worldviews. On the one side, you have Yahweh, the self-existent, sovereign Creator of all things. On the other, you have Pharaoh, who was considered the incarnation of the sun god, Ra, the supposed source of all light, life, and order in Egypt. Every plague has been a direct, polemical assault on a specific deity in the Egyptian pantheon. The Nile, the frogs, the cattle, all of these were gods in Egypt. And one by one, Yahweh has been contemptuously flicking them off the table. This is not just an attack on a subordinate deity; it is an attack on the head god himself.