Today we are reading Exodus 9. In this chapter we read about more plagues that God sent against Pharoah. “Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s. But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.” (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.) So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.”
Exodus 9:27-35 ESV The repeated comment that the Pharoah’s heart was hardened seems unbelievable. How do you think the people of Egypt felt? If you knew your leader was being stubborn and causing all this suffering on you and your family, how would you feel? Do not underestimate the wickedness of mankind. History is replete with unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. Yet, God will hold every person accountable from Pharoah to Hitler to every other horrible leader. In the end, they will be crushed and God will set His people free! As God knew about the suffering of the Hebrews, He knows about what you are dealing with too. He hears your prayers! Pastor Tim
