FBC Gridley

During the time that God sent Moses to speak to Pharoah, Moses would have been the most despised man along the Nile. People held him responsible for the plagues that brought misery unto the Egyptians and the Israelites alike.

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Remember that the water in the Nile River turned to blood, and then frogs infested the earth, and that was followed by a swarm of gnats that covered the ground. And with each pestilence, Moses demanded that Pharaoh release the Hebrew slaves forever.

 

But Pharaoh was a stubborn dictator. As though it were some kind of contest, when his magicians could mimic many of Moses’ miracles, he refused to grant a release.

 

Then God sent the fourth plague, and it was unique, a plague of flies. The whole country was polluted. The flies ruined the land of Egypt, the Scripture says. Pharaoh was really on the spot because his magicians could not mimic that miracle.

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But what made matters even worse was that this fourth plague came upon the Egyptians only. There were no flies in the land of Goshen where the Israelites lived. In fact, from this point on, all of the judgments of God fell only on the Egyptians. The Israelites were exempt.

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How the Egyptians must have hated Moses! How they must have despised even the mention of his name!

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But often overlooked in this tug-of-war between Moses and Pharaoh is the fact that Pharaoh offered Moses several compromises.

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And those same compromises still tempt us today.

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As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 

“Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord.  

2 Corinthians 6:16-17