Plagues And Passover

In an act of faith and courage such as few of us will ever be called on for, Moses and Aaron go to the Pharaoh and they do it! They command him in the name of the LORD to let His people go. Pharaoh’s response? “Who is the LORD?... I don’t know the LORD … and moreover, I will not let Israel go” Those are fighting words! So, it kind of goes like this. Moses and Aaron demand Pharaoh to let the people go. Pharaoh refuses so God strikes them with a plague. Pharaoh ‘repents’ and God causes the plague to cease. Then Pharaoh changes his mind, because his repentance wasn’t the real kind, because his heart was hard and just kept getting harder. So, God sends another plague, worse than the one before. But all of this was God’s plan, not just to bring Israel out, but to thrust them out with ‘a mighty hand’ so that not only Israel, but all of Egypt would know “that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.” (Exodus 8:22) They say that the number ten in the Bible is the number of completion, and when God sends the tenth and final plague, Pharaoh and all of Egypt are completely devastated. The tenth and final plague defeats Egypt, but it also saves Israel, and that act of salvation becomes the great foreshadowing of the Cross of Jesus Christ