Exodus 9 (The Plagues Continue - Livestock Diseased, Boils & Hail)

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All right, well let's pray and then we will look at Exodus wait a second

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Did I really type that in I don't know Oh All right, well mark why don't you why don't you open us in prayer, okay?

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Amen, all right Exodus Exodus chapter 9 Go into Pharaoh And tell him thus says the

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Lord God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may serve me for if you refuse to let them go and still hold them

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Behold the hand of the Lord will be on your cattle in the field on the horses on the donkeys on the camels on the oxen and on the sheep a very severe pestilence

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And the Lord will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel Then the

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Lord appointed a set time Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land

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So the Lord did this thing on the next day and all the livestock of Egypt died

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The livestock of the children of Israel Not one died Then Pharaoh said and indeed not even one of the livestock of the

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Israelites was dead But the heart of Pharaoh became hard and he did not let the people go

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So the Lord said to Moses and Aaron Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace and let

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Moses scatter it to all the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh and It will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt And it will cause boils that break out in sores on man and beast

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And they took ashes from the furnace stood before Pharaoh and Moses scattered them toward heaven and They caused boils that break out in sores on man and beast

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And The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils

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For the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians But the

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Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh And he did not heal them just as the

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Lord had slain Moses Then the Lord said to Moses Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him

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Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may serve me for at this time

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I will send all my plagues to your very heart and on your servants and on your people that you may know that there is

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None like me in all the earth Now if I had stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence

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Then you would have been cut off from the earth but indeed

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For this purpose I have raised you up That I may show my power in you and that my name may be declared in all the earth

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As yet you exalt yourself against my people in that you will not let them go

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Behold Tomorrow about this time I will cause a very heavy hail to rain down such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now

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Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field

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For the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home

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And they shall die He who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee to the houses

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But he who did not regard the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field

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Then the Lord said to Moses Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt on man on beast

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And on every herb of the field throughout the land of Egypt And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven

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All sent thunder and hail and fire darted to the ground There was hail and fire mingled with the hail

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So very heavy But yet since it became a nation

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The hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt All that was in the field but man and beast

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And the hail struck every herb of the field and in the ocean

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And the children of Israel There was no hail And Pharaoh sat and called from Moses and Aaron I have sinned this time

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The Lord is righteous And my people and I are wicked

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Retreat the Lord For there may be no more mighty thundering in hell

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But if it is enough You shall stay no more

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As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord The thunder will cease

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And there will be no more hail That you may know That the earth is the

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Lord's But as for you And your sons

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I know That you will not yet fear the Lord God Now the flax and the barley were struck

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For the barley was in the hill And the flax was in the barn But the wheat and the spelt were not struck

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For they are made cross So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh And spread out his hands to the

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Lord Then the thunder and the hail ceased

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And the rain was not poured on the earth And when

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Pharaoh saw that the rain The hail and the thunder had ceased He sinned yet more

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And he hardened his heart He and his sons So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened

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Neither would he let the children of Israel go As the Lord had spoken by Moses Okay, last time in chapter 8

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We saw how Pharaoh had promised To let the children of Israel go

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If, what was the condition? That Moses would intercede on his behalf

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And give him relief from the plague So that's of course what Moses did

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And did Pharaoh keep his word? No Of course not And remember how this all started many chapters ago

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How Pharaoh's initial attitude was Who is the Lord that I should obey him?

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Well now he's getting a pretty good idea Of who the Lord is And the power that he has

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But he still thinks that he can negotiate Right? So last time we saw that he's negotiating

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Well okay, I'll let you go and serve the Lord In the land That is, don't go too far

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I will not let you go three days into the wilderness So did Moses accept that offer? Of course not

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So chapter 8 ended with verse 32 Which says, but Pharaoh hardened his heart

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At this time also Neither would he let the people go So now in chapter 9

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We see the 5th, 6th, and 7th plagues They're recorded

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The 5th plague is the livestock being struck with disease

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The 6th plague is the Egyptians and the beasts of the field

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Being afflicted by boils And then the 7th plague is a devastating hail

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And then in the next chapter, chapter 10 There's going to be the locusts and the darkness

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And hopefully you're making the connections Between many of these things And the book of Revelation So if you look at the book of Revelation The judgments are, they're almost like a mirror

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Of what you're seeing in Exodus Another tie -in with the book of Revelation That we talked about And it's brought out even more clearly in this chapter

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How the Lord is making a distinction Or a difference between the

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Egyptians And the children of Israel Just like in the end times There's going to be a distinction made

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When God's wrath falls That God's people are protected Or shielded from the wrath of God While the people of the earth

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Are just open to facing all of it In its full intensity Now before we get into the first plague

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I'd like you to look at verse 1 This is an important point It says, then the

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Lord said to Moses Go into Pharaoh and tell him Thus says the

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Lord God of the Hebrews Let my people go that they may do what?

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Worship That they may serve me Does it say worship in one translation?

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No, this is practice But the word really means worship Same thing, that they may worship

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That they may serve me So what is God doing? God is redeeming a people

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So that this people may serve And worship the

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Lord So I'm not looking to downplay the human element

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I'm not looking to downplay God's mercy Both are a factor

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Both are very important However, I think the main thrust of all of this

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Is that number 1 God's name is to be magnified in the earth

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Number 1 And then number 2 Through this whole process The Lord is gathering a people

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That are set apart for himself So that they might serve him Now turn to Romans chapter 4

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For a moment Because we always like to make application When we can So as you're turning to Romans chapter 4

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Remember back in chapter 2 of Exodus After hearing the groanings of the people

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Being afflicted by the Egyptians It says the Lord remembered his covenant

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That he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob And the relevance for us today

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Is that same covenant That same covenant of promise Is open and available today

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For all who believe You say prove it, okay Look at Romans chapter 4

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Starting in verse 21 This is speaking of Abraham It says And being fully convinced

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That what he, that is the Lord Had promised He was also able to perform

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And therefore it was accounted to him For righteousness So because Abraham believed the word of God His faith, believing

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God Was accounted to him for righteousness Romans 4 .23 says

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Now it was not written for his sake alone That it was imputed to him

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But also for who? For us, New Testament believers

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It shall be imputed to us Who believe in him Who raised up Jesus our

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Lord From the dead So here's the point The promises that are made to Abraham We get to share in those promises

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So I know we're reading about the Israelites And there is a distinction Definitely to be made

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Between Israel and the church Old Testament and New Testament For sure But we get to share in The promises of God And one more verse on that point

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Galatians 3 .29 Galatians 3 .29

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Says And if you are Christ Then you are Abraham's seed

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And heirs according to the promise So all the promises of God In the

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Old Testament There is application for us today We get to share in them

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So all of that to say That just as the Lord was redeeming The children of Israel to serve him

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That's why he redeems us as well God doesn't just save us

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So we can go to heaven God saves us So that we would serve him

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So you think about it Salvation happens here Okay People go to heaven here

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What about everything in between? Right? That's what we need to focus on Here and now

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Serving the Lord If it was just about going to heaven All of us who are saved

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You just take us right now Right? But that's not the way God intended it He saved us to serve

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And he set apart the children of Israel To go out into the wilderness To do what?

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To worship To serve All right, any questions or comments so far? All right

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So consider this God wants to bring the children of Israel Out of Egypt But he also wants to take

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Egypt Out of the children of Israel Right? What does that mean? Well, he wants to bring us out of the world

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To set us apart To sanctify us But he has to take the world out of us

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And that's a hard thing to do As everyone says, you know, we We are to be in the world

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But not of it Well, that's true And that's an easy thing to say It's a little more difficult

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To have that play out Because we're all surrounded by worldly things Every moment of every day

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Romans 12 2 says And do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind

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That you may prove What is that good and acceptable And perfect will of God So it's a fact

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God did not want the children of Israel To be just like the Egyptians Just like he doesn't want us

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To be just like everybody else And as far as proving that perfect Good will of God What's the will of God for our life?

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You know, there's actually a Bible verse That comes right out And tells us the will of God For our lives

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What is it? First Thessalonians 5 Right Your sanctification

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Right Yeah, and that's where it is Is that John 17?

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No, you're right It's to the Thessalonians Right, yeah So you remember when the children of Israel Worshiped the golden calf?

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Where do you think they got that idea? He had to take Egypt out of them And incidentally, that verse

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What's the will of God for your life? Even your sanctification That you should abstain From sexual immorality

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Okay, the golden calf What did it say they did? They rose up to play Which was a euphemism

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For sexual immorality Okay, that's enough preaching Alright Let's get into the first plague

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So the Lord tells Moses Go and say to Pharaoh Let my people go

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Alright, Jim, I saw that hand I just want to make a comment In reading this chapter It came to me that the battle

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Even though we see it as between Moses and Aaron and Pharaoh The real true battle is between Satan and God Okay, you want to elaborate on that?

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Well, if you think of all the gods That the Egyptians worshipped And they held

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Pharaoh as the chief god A small chief And God needed to rid

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Have that victory over Satan Once again, as we see in Job There's a battle going on there

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And God gave Satan permission To do what he thought

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He would be able to get away with And the same thing I think Is happening here So that's a constant battle

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That's always going on I can't remember the verse Thank goodness for navigators

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It's going to happen pretty soon But where it says The battle is

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We don't see the battle The battle is a spiritual battle And it's taking place even now

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While we're right here That's for sure Alright, thank you So look at verse 2

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So the Lord tells Moses Tell Pharaoh, let my people go Verse 2 For if you refuse to let them go

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And still hold them Behold, the hand of the Lord Will be on your cattle Or on your cattle in the field

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On the horses, on the donkeys On the camels, on the oxen And on the sheep A very severe pestilence

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And the Lord will make a difference Between the livestock of Israel And the livestock of Egypt So nothing shall die

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Of all that belongs To the children of Israel So there's the distinction there

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Verse 5 Then the Lord appointed a set time Saying tomorrow The Lord will do this thing

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In the land And of course that's exactly What takes place

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The next day the livestock Of Egypt was struck And it says

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But of the livestock of the children Of Israel Not one died

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That's amazing But what's the result of it? It says when Pharaoh finds this out

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His heart Became hard So that made Pharaoh A little angry

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We could say Alright now just think of the devastation That's taken place upon the land

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So far The water has turned into blood So they can't really eat anything out of the

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River Now the livestock How much of it they would eat and use

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To tend to the fields, I don't know But the food supply Obviously is dwindling

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And then in the 7th plague More animals are going to be struck And then some of the crops

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Are going to be struck So things are getting worse and worse But the 6th plague

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Is especially devastating And terrible Because it's the first plague

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That directly affects Human health Look at verse 8

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So the Lord said to Moses and Aaron Take for yourselves Handfuls of ashes from a furnace

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And let Moses Scatter it toward the heavens In the sight of Pharaoh And it will become

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Fine dust in all The land of Egypt and it will cause Boils that break out

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And sores on man and Beasts throughout all the land Of Egypt This is a pretty

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Horrific Plague, I'd like you to turn to Revelation chapter 17 Because there's another tie in With this plague as well

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As far as, what's a boil? I won't ask for a raise of hand How many people have had boils

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But uh, you know If you read about it, if you never had one You can read about it I won't go into the details,

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I grossed you guys out With the frogs I think last week We won't do that again Well what does the book of Job say

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That Job was afflicted By boils, right? From the crown of his head to To his foot

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And just speaking personally I think of all of the Verses of scripture

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One of the most disturbing To me is found In Revelation 16

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After the boils The water turned to blood The darkness it says

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In verse 10 And the people that had worshipped the beast It says they gnawed on their

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Tongues because of The pain, that verse always Kind of gives me a

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A chill Well who's that talking about, who's going to be gnawing on their

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Tongues because of the pain, look at Verses 1 and 2, Revelation 16, 1 and 2

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Then I heard a loud Voice from the temple Saying to the seven angels

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Go and pour out the bowls Of the wrath of God On the earth So the first went and poured out

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His bowl upon the earth And a foul And loathsome sore

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Came upon the men Who had the mark of the beast And those who worshipped

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His image So a foul And loathsome sore

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Now how many of you know what the Septuagint is, here's a Trivia question The Septuagint Yeah that's the old, the

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First five books No that's the Torah or the Pentateuch I'm sorry

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Yeah, alright So the Septuagint is The Hebrew Old Testament Translated into Greek Obviously when the

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Old Testament Was written, it was written in Hebrew But by the time of Jesus and the Apostles, the

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Old Testament had been Translated into the Greek language Many would argue that's the Bible Or that's the

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Old Testament that the Apostles used, the Greek Version of the Old Testament, whatever the case

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In the Septuagint The Greek word in Exodus For boils, guess what

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It's the same exact word As you find in Revelation 16 A foul and loathsome

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Sore So the people Don't take the mark of the beast So I'm not going to be here,

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I don't need To worry about that But And no other comments, I know what a few

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Of you are thinking, okay But the people who take the Mark of the beast, they're allowed

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To buy and sell But they are afflicted By boils and they go to hell

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I mean this is the trade off Buy and sell? Yeah, I guess they can buy

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Ointment since they can buy and sell It's not going to do them much Good though Alright, turn back to Exodus Chapter 9

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Yes, there's a hand Yeah, Janet I remember when I was young, my father

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Had boils, they are very Very painful He was almost incapacitated

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Right I won't tell you What they did Yeah Really, really

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Horrible, and we're going to see There are some people in this chapter That are incapacitated Jim, you had something?

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Since Janet brought it up When I was a teenager, probably around 15 16 years old,

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I had an opportunity to Go to Maybe some of you remember the Gardner State Hospital, which is now a prison

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But This individual that I knew Was a nurse And he had

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Charge of A certain ward, and one fellow Had a boil And I can tell you

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I don't ever want to see another one I mean, this was the extreme Probably, but it had such a

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A lonesome Odor to it And it was huge And they tried to It was just terrible, so if you've never seen a boil

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You don't ever want to have one We don't need to exchange all of our boil Stuff Point Well taken, though Now, one thing about this

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Plague with the boils It says that Moses had to take ash

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From the furnace and Scatter it towards heaven And you might think

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How does that cause Boils? Well, the point is It doesn't, right? This is a

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Supernatural plague I know we know that But you might wonder, well, why did he have to do that?

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Maybe there's some reason Or symbolic meaning If you know, you can raise your hand in a moment

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You know it? God told him to Well, we know that No speculation

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Does anyone actually know? He also said, do it so that Pharaoh can see

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Yes I kind of imagine Moses saying Hey, watch this One other thing,

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Mike That ash wasn't just any ordinary ash That came from the

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Furnaces That they baked and made Bricks from But still, throwing that In the air isn't going to cause boils

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Throughout all the land of Egypt It is if God wants it to It is if God wants it to But the point is, this is a supernatural

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Judgment And one of the things that You will find, sometimes

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Men try to find natural Explanations for supernatural Events One thing that liberal scholars love to do

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Sometimes you'll hear me repeat this You know, liberal scholars What do I mean by that? People that don't take the

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People that don't take the Word of God literally They don't take it at face value

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Or the more extreme liberals Would just outright deny the Word of God, so that's what we're talking about And what did you say?

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Not very scholarly So, liberals or are they scholars? Liberal scholars

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There's no such thing They have their They have their degrees

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So they're considered Scholars There's no opinions

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In here at all No opinions I get what you're saying But what do they do?

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They like to debunk The things written in Scripture To find a natural explanation

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Because they really want to kind of get away from this Idea of a personal God That would perform miracles

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Or especially would rain down judgment You know, when we see the people You have something?

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I was just going to mention that it's interesting That the magicians couldn't Compete with us either

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They just couldn't do anything Whereas in the past there were Some competition, they were trying to Be competitive

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Yeah, the magicians, they were They replicated the first two

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Was it the first two or three plagues? Yeah This time they're on their back

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They're not doing anything But that's what some scholars Or whatever you want to call them

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Will try to do, debunk the Bible They don't want a God who's actually in control And that's doing these things

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When we read about the people afflicted With boils, we think That's terrible

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And these people need to repent and place their Faith in the Lord, when they read that They just think it's terrible

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And you know, I wouldn't want to worship a God Who would do that kind of a thing So they try to find

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Sophisticated arguments to get Around all of this With that said

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I will acknowledge one thing When the water turns to blood That does

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Make sense that the frogs Would come out of the water onto the land Right? Of course, that's what you would expect

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That it would happen naturally On the other hand It says that the Lord did it So can the

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Lord Use natural events to Bring things about? Yeah, the

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Lord Can do that, however Turning dust Into lice

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There's no explanation for that Parting the Red Sea To where the

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Israelites Can walk through the midst of it On dry ground There's no explanation for that Although, did you hear about the

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Liberal Sunday school teacher Who taught their Taught their kids about the

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Parting of the Red Sea? So the Sunday school teacher Had the child read about The Red Sea and how the

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Israelites Walked through the midst And one of the children said It's a miracle And the teacher said, no,

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Johnny It's not a miracle It's not actually the Red Sea It's the Reed Sea So the wind blew and dried it out

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And besides, there was only a few inches of water Anyways, and he said It's a miracle

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And she said, no, Johnny I told you it's not a miracle And he said, yes it is

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Why? Because God drowned Pharaoh's entire army in a few Inches of water So, either way

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You slice it It's a miracle But isn't that the way it goes?

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People try to find ways Around what the Word of God Has to say, and I think their attitude

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Is like Pharaoh's You know, who's the Lord That I should obey Him People, in general

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Want to live life on their Terms and not do what God or the Scripture says

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Alright, questions or comments? How many of you heard that story? The Red Sea, okay Mark The sixth plague

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It's kind of Interesting to note that It came without a warning

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The boils did All the other ones weren't That's right

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Yeah, and usually the Lord Would give them a little bit of notice Which I think is a gracious act

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It gives Pharaoh at least a little time To change his mind, not that he's going to But What's the significance of the sixth plague?

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Yeah, I came across that And I Does anyone want to offer What's the significance of the boils

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Just without any warning? Does anyone have any thoughts on that? Well, I didn't either

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So that's But yeah, that's true Jim We can go back to verse 5

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It says Well, let's go to verse 4 And the Lord will make a difference Between the livestock of Israel And the livestock of Egypt So nothing shall die of all that Belongs to the children of Israel Then the

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Lord appointed a set Time Saying tomorrow The Lord will do

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This thing in the land I said This is the first time this is mentioned

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That there's a set time Okay So I Why did he Set a time tomorrow?

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And when I Came up with a couple of things I think It was an opportunity that he presented

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To Pharaoh To recognize that God was who he is Okay And it was another

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Opportunity for him to Take that And also It was

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God's grace and love suffering That was involved In all of this

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Because he's given him every opportunity To say that Yes, you are the true and real

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God That he never does Right, yeah, good points All right, so the sixth plague

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Is the Boyle's and Pharaoh's Magicians, they don't try To replicate this, why?

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Well, look at verse 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because Of the

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Boyle's, for the Boyle's Were on the magicians And on all the

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Egyptians, but the Lord Hardened the heart of Pharaoh And he did not heed them just as The Lord had spoken to Moses So the magicians

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Appear to be flat on their back And they definitely can't, they can't even try With this, so the

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Lord Tells Pharaoh in verse 15 That basically, to paraphrase What he's saying

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I could have wiped you out completely A while ago if I Wanted to, the fact that The Lord doesn't and he gives them time

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And opportunities as a testament to His grace Then in verse 16

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This is what the Apostle Paul picks up on In the book of Romans, remember Romans 9, we had looked at that A week or two ago

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Verse 16 says the Lord Says to Pharaoh But indeed for this purpose

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I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that my Name may be declared

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In all The earth, but what's The problem, the problem

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In verse 17 the Lord tells Pharaoh, but you know I'm going to exalt my

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Name But you are exalting yourself That's what Pharaoh is trying to Do, so either way

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You have man's way God's way, in the end It's going to be God's Way, look at verse 18, behold

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Tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy Hail to rain down Such as has not been in Egypt since It's founding until Now, and of course

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There is that horrific plague In the book of Revelation, how many Pounds are the hail stones

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Going to be? A hundred? Yeah Of course it's a different Form of measurement

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I've heard anywhere from 75, 80 To upwards of a hundred and Something, but either way

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Let's just say it's a hundred pounds Can you imagine a hundred Pound hail stone?

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Without numbers Just falling everywhere Yeah One time I was jogging

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Back in my younger years And I was living in Orange And I remember running down the street

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And a hail stone hit And the hail stones were only About a half an inch or so, maybe

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And I tell you I was trying to get under a tree And finally

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I was getting fine It wasn't as bad as a boil Yeah Yeah, I mean

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It's so terrible, a hundred pound hail Yeah, you get hit with one of those That's the end of you

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But even this verse Behold tomorrow, about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain

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Down, such as has not Been in Egypt since Its founding until now

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When I read that, I thought of what Jesus said In Matthew 24 About how in the great tribulation

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Well he says, Matthew 24 21, for then there will be great Tribulation, such as Has not been since the beginning of the

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World until this time, no, nor Ever shall be So this is the worst that Egypt Has ever seen, but in the

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Tribulation, similar things But that's the worst the world Had ever seen

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Now the Lord is gracious though with the plague Of the hail, in that unlike The boils, the

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Lord does Give Pharaoh warning And actually he gives All of the people of Egypt Warning, it says in verse 20

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He who feared The word of the Lord, so the word Spread obviously, people had a chance to Bring in their servants and animals

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Inside He who feared the word of the Lord Among the servants of Pharaoh Made his servants and his livestock

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Flee to the houses So they were safe, because they Feared God Verse 21, but he who did

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Not regard the word of The Lord, left his servants In his livestock in The field

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So who are these Egyptians that Fear God They see all of this

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And it has to be having an effect On these people, and it does have an effect So who are these

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Egyptians Jim I think those Egyptians were Those that maybe had

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Been influenced by The children of Israel I think that they had

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Relations with them and they heard This about this God And there may have been some fear

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Instilled in them because of that Okay Now you remember

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Yeah, and that's That's valid, and I think they're seeing The plagues, you remember when the

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Israelites go out of Egypt Someone, a group goes along With them, called the mixed multitude

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So there are Some Egyptians that kind of Attach themselves to The Hebrews, so when the

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Hebrews Go out of Egypt, there are some Egyptians that go with them, and it's called The mixed multitude, it kind of became a

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Thorn in their side a little bit But they fear God, now did They truly trust in the

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Lord I mean maybe some of them individually Did, but I think that may have

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Been a false repentance Just like we're going to see in this final Section, but before that Larry Well I was just going to say that's another

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Distinction there Because they took their Servants and animals into their homes

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To protect Them, but Those were still Hailstones that could have wiped out the houses

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Yeah, well presumably They And there was ones mixed with fire

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As well Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up The hail was mixed with fire

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Doesn't give us any Explanation I mean that's what you

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Would probably assume, because In hail storms there is often Lightning, probably

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Probably what it was, but could have been Something again, super Natural, we don't really know

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And when God's Judgment happens It's always fire involved Except for the flood

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Except for the flood But yeah That's true generally

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So I think this is, yes Marcus Well I don't know if now's the time Or the end of all these things

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But I'm just, as I'm thinking About all this and the issue Of, it was

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Pharaoh That hired his own hound to begin With time and time again And I can't help but think of Like 2

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Peter 3 9, I think the Lord's not Slow about his promise, but His long suffering

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Not willing that any should perish He's given Pharaoh all his chances Over and over again

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And Again, Pharaoh hardens his heart And then God says, okay

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I'm gonna harden your heart And there will be no chance I wonder for us as Christians Because He has given us a conscience

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This is how he Speaks to us And when we When we resist that They say it's like searing your conscience

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When the Lord convicts you Of something If you rationalize it

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Or just ignore it, or whatever It It makes me kind of Shudder In fear and trepidation somewhat

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As to What the outcome might be For his children, because whom the Lord loves

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He chases So, you know, we can say, oh yeah Pharaoh's a bad guy,

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Pharaoh's a bad guy Well, the human heart Is deceitful Of all things and desperately wicked

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So, we need to take a lesson That when the Lord does Prick our conscience

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We need to We need to make some changes Yeah, and if God tries

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To get our attention Through some minor thing And we ignore it, and ignore it

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To get our attention He might have to send something a little more severe Next time, right? And then there might come a point

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Where the wages of sin is death Right I mean, it is, anyways

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It'll be death in a relationship, it'll be death Of some sort Something's gonna die

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Because of it, but He might even take your own life Alright So, a false repentance

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The mixed multitude are these Hebrews Or Egyptians that fear The God of the

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Hebrews Did they really believe? Again, some of them May have Pharaoh, though, says something

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That you might get the impression, wait Pharaoh's become a believer In the Lord Well, let's look at this

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Verse 25 And the hail

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Struck throughout the whole land of Egypt All that was in the field Both man and beast

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And the hail struck every herb of the field And broke every tree of the field Only in the land of Goshen Where the children of Israel were

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Was there no hail And Pharaoh sent and called Moses And Aaron and said to them

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And this is what I'm referring to, what did Pharaoh say I have sinned This time?

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What about All the other times? Okay, I mean, he's admitting I have sinned this time

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The Lord is righteous I and my People are wicked

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I think if you Heard a world leader Say something like that on national

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Television, a lot of Christians would assume This guy just came to the Lord Moses Knows better, right?

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Look at verse 30 I know that you will not yet Fear the

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Lord God, so he's not fooling Moses So we keep basically

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What are we seeing here? We keep seeing Pharaoh He's willing to say and do whatever he Has to say and do to make

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The judgments stop And then verse 34, when Pharaoh Saw that the rain, the hail, and the

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Thunder had ceased, he sinned Yet more So it was a false repentance, and he hardened

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His heart, he and his servants So the heart of Pharaoh Is hard, neither would he let the