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¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I
have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
2 Thou shalt speak all that I command
thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children
of Israel out of his land. 3 And I will
harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of
Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken
unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and
my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am
the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children
of Israel from among them. 6 And Moses
and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron
fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Moses is 80 years old when these events
take place and Aaron is 83, old men by our measurement in a world where
lifespans were decreasing from the hundreds of years before the Flood due to
the judgment on mankind, in part, made possible by the change in environment
after the Flood.
Pharaoh is already stubborn, obstinate,
prideful and a type of not only Satan but the Beast of Revelation, popularly
called The Antichrist. God will use that pride and harden his heart for an
occasion to perform signs and wonders. The Hebrew people are born in signs and
wonders.
Deuteronomy
4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take
him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by
wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by
great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes?
The condition of the ancient world was
such that each nation, each tribe even, claimed its very own deities and, as we
have seen, even individual families had their own gods of familial spirits of
ancestors. The understanding that the God of the Hebrews is real and powerful
will not save the Egyptians because they will regard Him as only the God of the
Hebrews. Mankind has degenerated to the point where he worships national gods
he has invented who represent people groups and real devils as layers upon
layers of spiritual beings preventing them from seeing the God who created him,
as we do today with the theoretical entities of science like the Higgs-Boson
particle that have explanatory power but no other reality. Now, the God who
created them all is announcing Himself to the world using the people He has
prepared as a vehicle.
The question begs itself, has He made
Himself known to you?
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