Drop The Hammer // Break Their Will (DD - 15 May 25)

*If you haven’t seen it yet, Christian apologist Wes Huff recently went on a podcast to discuss Christ, salvation, and the gospel with comedian Andrew Schulz. Link to a short clip of it here. I haven’t followed him all that closely, but I see clips here and there, and they’re all worth a look/listen. Wes is doing great work, and did an excellent job on Rogan’s podcast earlier this year of clearly articulating the fundamental beliefs of the historic Christian faith before an audience of hundreds of millions of listeners. Hopefully you find these clips helpful. Now, back to Egypt, where the consequences of Pharaoh’s arrogance are about to go from severe to catastrophic.*

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“The Lord did not merely smite Egypt to display power, but to unmask their idols, to show the emptiness of their gods, and to make His own name known. When the hail fell and fire ran along the ground, it was not nature acting blindly, but God acting sovereignly.” - Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on the Plagues of Egypt

Today’s Reading: Exodus 9

Confess The Faith:

Q. What is the true repentance or conversion of man?

A: It is the dying of the old nature and the coming to life of the new.

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Yesterday, we discussed how each plague was specifically designed to attack one of Egypt’s many false gods. For example, when God brought forth countless frogs out of the Nile River, not only was He raining down judgment on Pharaoh and his people, but He was making a statement about the supremacy of Yahweh over the false gods of the earth, such as Heqet, the “frog-headed goddess of birth.” The same is true for the god and goddess of the Nile River (first plague, turning the river to blood), the god of the desert (third plague, gnats), and the Egyptians’ “fly god,” Uatchit, the “goddess of the marshes” (fourth plague, swarms of flies).

Today, we come to the fifth, sixth, and seventh plagues; the death of Egyptian livestock, painful boils on the skin, and unprecedented hail (mixed with fire!).

Again, these are not random.

• Plague #5: Death of Egyptian livestock → False goddess Hathor and god Apis