Ah, today we start to see some real action in the struggle between Moses/Aaron and Pharaoh! How amazing must it have been to see a staff turned into a snake - and then to see it take on other snake/staffs and 'swallow them up'? Or how terrifying to see all the water in a river turned to blood? Such miracles are not seen anymore, though as we'll see in a couple of years their like and worse will happen again someday.
In spite of these things, Pharaoh's heart was hard against the request to let the Israelites go. We know from previous chapters that this was actually God's doing, so that He could demonstrate His power and sovereignty in freeing His people, but I wonder what the Egyptians thought of all of it? At what point did the average Egyptian wish that Pharaoh would just let them go - or in that day did the main populous even know of what was going on? Surely they all were affected by the changing of the river Nile into blood, but I wonder if they actually knew the whole story of how it happened and why.
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The strangest thing about the next couple of chapters is that the Egyptian sorcerors, Jannes and Jambres (2Tim 3), keep duplicating the miracles. I don't find it strange that they are able to duplicate some of the signs. Their power came from their reliance on the power of fallen angels. What I find absolutely absurd is that they are trying to duplicate the signs! Wouldn't it be much more effective to try getting rid of the problems? I can just imagine Pharaoh screaming, "Idiots! We've got enough bloody frogs around here without you two making more!"
Indeed - their duplication of the miracles/plagues only showed that they could mirror what God did. If they could have actually reversed any of it I'm sure they would have (and they probably tried). Plus, as we'll see, they can only copy the first few...
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