Exodus 9: I Have Sinned

We apologise for the poor quality of sound as we had technical problems with Mina's microphone. All will be back to normal next episode.-----Plagues five, six, and seven arrive — and with them, an escalation that takes the breath away. Disease destroys Egypt's livestock. Boils break out on the skin of every Egyptian. Then fire and hail fall from the sky in a storm unlike anything Egypt has ever seen.For the first time, Pharaoh cracks. "I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you," he says to Moses. Remove this plague, and I will let the people go. Moses prays. The plague stops. And Pharaoh changes his mind.This episode centres on one of the most human moments in all of Exodus: the difference between genuine repentance and crisis repentance. Pharaoh's confession looks real — but it isn't. The storm passes, and his heart hardens again. We've all been there. And we explore what true contrition looks like, why God distinguishes his people (Goshen was untouched throughout), and what it means to approach confession with a truly repentant heart rather than simply wanting the consequences to go away.Key questions explored:• What is the difference between genuine repentance and "crisis repentance"?• What does Pharaoh's repeated pattern of confessing and then hardening teach us about ourselves?• How does God's protection of Goshen throughout chapter 9 speak to his care for his people?• What does the plague of hail defeating the sky goddess (Nut) say theologically?