Exodus 12:29–32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the culmination of God's terrible and righteous war against the gods of Egypt. For nine plagues, God has been systematically dismantling the entire Egyptian pantheon. He turned the Nile, their god H'api, to blood. He made the land spew out frogs, a symbol of their goddess of fertility, Heqet, until they were a stinking mess. He struck the sun, their chief deity Ra, with a profound darkness. Each plague was a targeted strike, a theological argument written in the language of ruin, demonstrating that the gods of the most powerful empire on earth were nothing but impotent figments of a rebellious imagination. God was not just flexing His muscle; He was unmasking the idols. But Pharaoh, the supposed incarnation of Horus, the son of Ra, remained obstinate. God had given him space to repent, but Pharaoh had used that space to double down on his blasphemy.