DAY 30 Read Exodus 9 through 11.
Today's reading: The persistent refusal of Pharaoh to free Israel results in increasing intensity of the plagues on the unhappy land.
Memory gem: "How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me" (Exodus 10:3).
Thought for today:
Though the Egyptians had so long rejected the knowledge of God, the Lord still gave them opportunity for repentance. In the days of Joseph, Egypt had been an asylum for Israel; God had been honored in the likeness shown His people. Now the longsuffering One, slow to anger, and full of compassion, gave each judgment time to do its work. The Egyptians, cursed through the very objects they had worshiped, had evidence of the power of Jehovah, and all who would, might submit to God and escape His judgments. The bigotry and stubbornness of the king resulted in spreading the knowledge of God and prompted many of the Egyptians to give themselves to His service.
When the miracles were wrought before the king, Satan was on the ground to counteract their influence and to prevent Pharaoh from acknowledging the supremacy of God and obeying His mandate. Satan wrought to the utmost of his power to counterfeit the work of God and resist His will. The only result was to prepare the way for greater exhibitions of the divine power and glory and to make more apparent, both to the Israelites and to all Egypt, the existence and sovereignty of the true and living God. God delivered Israel with the mighty manifestations of His power and with judgments upon all the gods of Egypt.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Exodus 10:19. "I will see thy face again no more"--not a promise or a threat, rather, a polite oriental expression meaning, "I will not ask for another interview." Chapter 11 indicates (but does not specifically state) that Moses did see Pharaoh once more to deliver God's final warning message.
Today's reading: The persistent refusal of Pharaoh to free Israel results in increasing intensity of the plagues on the unhappy land.
Memory gem: "How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me" (Exodus 10:3).
Thought for today:
Though the Egyptians had so long rejected the knowledge of God, the Lord still gave them opportunity for repentance. In the days of Joseph, Egypt had been an asylum for Israel; God had been honored in the likeness shown His people. Now the longsuffering One, slow to anger, and full of compassion, gave each judgment time to do its work. The Egyptians, cursed through the very objects they had worshiped, had evidence of the power of Jehovah, and all who would, might submit to God and escape His judgments. The bigotry and stubbornness of the king resulted in spreading the knowledge of God and prompted many of the Egyptians to give themselves to His service.
When the miracles were wrought before the king, Satan was on the ground to counteract their influence and to prevent Pharaoh from acknowledging the supremacy of God and obeying His mandate. Satan wrought to the utmost of his power to counterfeit the work of God and resist His will. The only result was to prepare the way for greater exhibitions of the divine power and glory and to make more apparent, both to the Israelites and to all Egypt, the existence and sovereignty of the true and living God. God delivered Israel with the mighty manifestations of His power and with judgments upon all the gods of Egypt.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Exodus 10:19. "I will see thy face again no more"--not a promise or a threat, rather, a polite oriental expression meaning, "I will not ask for another interview." Chapter 11 indicates (but does not specifically state) that Moses did see Pharaoh once more to deliver God's final warning message.
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