SECOND DAY: Read Exodus 6:28-7:13.
Q3.
a.
Exodus 6:12 But
Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would
Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?”
Exodus 6:30 But
Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh
listen to me?”
Moses doubted his own ability that he can’t even convince his own
people how can he go convince Pharaoh.
b.
With man it may be impossible but with God all things are possible.
The Lord said to Moses “I have made you like God to Pharaoh, not a god, the God.
Wow! Aaron will be your prophet. You don’t need to worry about what to say to
Pharaoh. Aaron will do the talking. Just do what I command you.
c.
God
knows everything, my good and my weak. Stop worrying and trust Him that He will
show me the way to live a life for Him.
Q4. Read Proverbs 28:14; Zechariah 7:12. The Lord promised to
harden Pharaoh’s heart.
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 4 he will not listen to you.
Proverbs 28:14 Blessed
is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their
heart falls into trouble.
Zechariah 7:12 They
made their hearts as hard as flint and
would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by
his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
a.
The Lord blesses those peoples who fear Him, but Pharaoh will be in trouble by not
listening to God's words that the Lord has sent by Moses because whoever hardens
their hearts fall into trouble.
b.
Egypt would be in
trouble because the Lord was very angry. God will lay His hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment.”
c.
When a nation's ruler has a hard heart against God that nation won’t be existed long with God's mighty acts of judgment.
The 1st plaques broke out in 65AD, the same year emperor Nero
killed himself.
The 2nd plaques broke out when co-emperors Marcus Aurelius (Antoninus) and Lucius Verus repressed the Syrian rebellion and brought back the disease to Ancient Rome.
The 3rd plaque called the Plague of Cyprian that this plague may have been a key driving
force behind the spread of Christianity in the Empire.
In
Ancient Rome, plague broke out frequently, which made roman society turbulent,
and social beliefs went into crisis. The traditional religions could not
respond to the changing situations, while Christianity took advantage of it and
defeated traditional religion whether in spiritual and practical realms, and
then was regarded as state religion. In a sense, if plague hadn’t broken out
frequently, Christianity would lose the opportunity to rise. Quoted from http://www.cawhi.com/plus/view.php?aid=13980
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