Tonight is the first of the plagues in invade our home. From the time the children get home from school until they go to bed all of the water in the house will be red kool-aid,. We are having chili for dinner with dead fish and rats. I have made red Jell-o (with more dead rats) for dessert. And the piece de resistance is a bath tub full of blood (that looks very similar to watered down ketchup)!! Here’s why:
The Plague of Blood (Exodus 7: 14-24)
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, …Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.” Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded… He struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.”
That would have been enough to get my attention. It wouldn’t have taken nine more plagues to get me to want these people out of my country. Just the smell of dead fish alone would have done it. Never mind the fact that they had to bathe in blood also. Yuck!
But Pharaoh wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box. Look what he did next: “Blood was everywhere in Egypt. But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts.” (v 22) Are you kidding me? Like there wasn’t enough blood everywhere. He made them make even more! If their magic could make blood why didn't they use it to UNmake it? Just a thought.
Pharaoh’s heart was hard. He wasn’t about to let this entire nation of slaves leave. He didn’t care if there was nothing to drink or clean water to bathe in. He wanted to keep his indentured servants and that was final. So God sent more plagues. Tomorrow He sends…
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