Week 39, Day 3: God begins His signs

Today’s Reading:  Exodus 7:1-25

Some thoughts from the reading…

God begins to multiply His signs and wonders in Egypt.  Pharaoh has been told to let Israel go and now begins the signs that He does to compel him to drive them out of his land.  Pharaoh will stubbornly want to keep Israel as slaves but God will afflict Egypt and force him to finally “drive them out”.  It will be a complete change in Pharaoh.  He will go from wanting to keep them and thinking who is Jehovah that he should listen to his voice to finally bending his will because of all the signs and wonders performed.

The first sign is the staff thrown down and turned into a serpent.  It is remarkable to see that the magicians of Egypt did likewise also.  I imagine they were the David Copperfields of the day.  Trickery and cunning deceit has been around for a long time.  The second sign all the water being turned into blood.  Again the magicians repeat this to some extent.  Notice that in both cases the magicians were still out done.  Aaron’s serpent consumed their serpents and the magicians could not reverse the water turned into blood.  They could imitate these signs but they could not outdo or overcome the signs.  And still Pharaoh’s heart was stubborn and hard.  He went away unconcerned about any of this.

God allows seven days to pass.  Seven days to think about these things, relent and obey.  Seven days of struggling to get water for the Egyptians.  We will see the power of God through these miracles.

Question:  Is God’s will ever going to be overcome?  Does God ever change His mind about what He is planning to do to a nation or people?

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