Exodus 9:13–35
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the seventh plague, and it is important for us to remember that this is not the opening act. We are well into the third act of this divine drama. He has seen water turn to blood, he has been inundated with frogs, gnats, and flies. He has seen the livestock of Egypt die while the livestock of Israel remained untouched. He has seen his magicians afflicted with boils, unable even to stand before Moses. God has been patiently, systematically, and relentlessly dismantling the pantheon of Egyptian deities, showing them to be nothing more than cosmic dust bunnies. But our modern sensibilities tend to get a bit squeamish right about here. We like a God who is affirming, a God who is therapeutic, a God who fits neatly into our categories of niceness. The God of the plagues is not nice; He is good, but He is not safe.