Exodus 7:14–25
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the beginning of the great unraveling of Egypt. This is not a series of unfortunate natural disasters. This is a sequence of carefully aimed, divinely orchestrated, covenantal lawsuits. This is God Almighty declaring war, not just on a stubborn tyrant, but on the entire religious and cosmic worldview that propped him up. The ten plagues are a systematic dismantling of the Egyptian pantheon. Modern man, in his sophisticated secularism, tends to read this account and see a power struggle between Moses and Pharaoh, a political negotiation backed by supernatural muscle. The central conflict is not between two men; it is between God and the gods. Pharaoh is simply the high priest and chief representative of his nation's idolatry. His hard heart is the focal point of a national rebellion against the Creator. And God is about to show the world what happens when a creature, whether a man or a nation, puffs out his chest and defies the living God.