VIC Exodus 12 – The Passover digs into the theology of the cross, the deep connections that the Messiah has with so much of worship life of God’s Old Testament people.
Ten Plagues
We haven’t spent anytime with the ten plagues that God sent on Egypt, but they were terrible. God brought this world power to her knees using one supernatural event after another. Even the magicians employed by Pharaoh told him that he should stop, but he couldn’t.
Hardening
The concept of someone rejecting God repeatedly is known as obduracy, or hardening. The means that Pharaoh heard what God had to say loud and clear. That wasn’t the problem. Pharaoh simply didn’t want to listen to what God had to say and would cripple his nation over that pride. Every time Pharaoh hardened his own heart he ran the risk that God would take over, and as a judgment for rejecting God’s grace, God would be the one hardening Pharaoh’s heart. The most terrifying phrase a Christian says to me is I will sin today, and repent tomorrow!
Passover
The Passover festival was different from the first night. There was urgency because the Destroyer would come through the land of Egypt and kill the first born. This was true from the slave all the way up to Pharaoh himself. The Bible tells us that there wasn’t a house in all of Egypt without a dead body in it. After this plague the Egyptian would be eager to kick the Jews out of their nation. Remember this was the tenth plague! The other nine were no walk in the park. AND after a certain point, the Jews weren’t even effected by the plagues.
Want to hear more? Watch this weeks Bible study from our series on God rescuing his people from slavery, VIC Exodus 12 – The Passover.
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