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@ Ronnie Gill
2024-09-01 23:29:13- “And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, a great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.” Ezekiel 38:22-23
In the last article, we left off with all the Egyptians suffering with boils or with the idea of a pandemic. This was showing the impotence of the gods Isis and Imhotep. Next we would be looking at fire, hail, and lighting with the Egyptian gods Nut and Shu. (If you haven’t read this part yet, pause reading this for a moment, and go and read Exodus 9 through 10 to get an idea about what we will be covering.)
The Egyptian god Nut was the goddess of the sky, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe. The Egyptian god Shu was the god of peace, lions, air, and wind. As God moved on to show his power and the impotence of the Egyptian gods, he wanted his people to be in awe and come to the conclusion that there is only one true God in this universe. What God was about to do, would be a light show to upstage all light shows. Lightning raced across the sky, and hail would fall, but not just any hail; this would be hail that was on fire, like small balls of fire. Much like a Fourth of July spectacle, God’s people would have been able to sit on their front porches from the area of Goshen and watch what was happening, not much more than a hop, skip, and jump away. Extraordinary!
God’s people have been warned.
- “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.” Mark 13:6-8
In a very real way, these verses explain what was happening in Exodus. There were many false gods or magicians that were deceiving both the Egyptians and God’s own people. God needed to shake things up so that His people would begin to see a distinction between them and the rest of the world around them. It was too easy to give credit to the Egyptian gods as being just as legitimate or real as their own. As people will commonly say today, “all religions are equal.”
Now, once you have a pandemic and then hail mixed with fire and lightning, it tends to really upset your food supply. The following gods that would be shown to be impotent were Neper and Nepit. Neper and Nepit were the god and goddess of grain and essential foods. Imagine if, because of a pandemic, then fire falling from the sky and ravishing the land(wars and rumors of wars), there would come a moment when the grain source of a large part of the world would be upset or destroyed. This was the very thing happening in Egypt, and God’s people were watching it all.
The next god to be destroyed in Egypt was Set or Seth, who was the god of desert, storms, disorder, foreigners, and violence. Each of these subsequent plagues in Egypt are a prophetic type of what we will likely be seeing, and are seeing take place today, as we await the second coming of Jesus Christ, and our journey to the promised land.
What does Set indicate for today?(desert, storms, disorder, foreigners, and violence.) Just read the news on any given day, we hear about some disorder or violence caused by illegal aliens in some country somewhere. We are seeing there are more than ordinary immigration patterns that are disrupting nations and their peace and security.
Israel watched these events as real-life events; we are watching them as larger world events. But in the end, the purpose is the same, then and now. God wants us to understand that the answers to life’s problems are in Him, not in excluding Him.
The next to the last in the series of plagues is an act against the god Ra. Ra is the sun god. Every day, Ra was in charge of the sunrise until he wasn’t! God showed once again the impotence of the Egyptian gods. The one true God brought utter darkness to Egypt and Ra couldn’t do anything about it. So dark, that people couldn’t see to move around, light a fire or candle, or even see their family members that are around them, for three days. Can you imagine life if the darkness was so complete you couldn’t even leave your home? 72 hours of absolute, complete, and thorough darkness!
These are the days we are living in right now. These last few plagues, before the BIG one. Starting with the pandemic, then the fire raining down from heaven and ravishing the land with wars and rumors of wars, followed by the disruption of basic goods and services, and then disorder and violence in the news daily around the world being caused by illegal immigrants, and then darkness or censorship! All of this is happening somewhat overlapping in time.
Again, it’s not God’s purpose to destroy but to awaken people. He wants us to pay better attention to what He is doing and align ourselves with His plan.
In the following article, we will continue with chapter 11 of Exodus and the last of the plagues that God rained down on Egypt, comparing it to today and our world. We will continue to explore how these events affected God’s people and prepared them for the next leg of their adventure, leaving Egypt. We will also continue to examine how these chapters might parallel our very day and age.
God bless.
Again, thanks for stopping by and sharing your time with me.
Signing off till next time.
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