Passover Plagues--Day 2

As if all the water turning to blood and the smell of dead fish wasn’t enough, Pharaoh still didn’t let the Israelites leave Egypt. Today we will observe the second day of plagues. Today frogs --lots of frogs--will invade our home. This is why:

The Plague of Frogs (Exodus 8:1-15)
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.” (v 1-3)

I have frogs everywhere. Maybe not as many as God sent into Eygpt.  Maybe not teems of them.  The house isn't quite jam packed with them but we have several.  Some are on the table, the floor, the stairs. Some are on the windows, in the cabinets, under pillows. Frogs are in the casserole for dinner. They are in the cup with the toothbrushes. I even found some that stick to the ceiling. Yes, we are literally surrounded by the green amphibians.

But, let's look what happened in the scriptures.  For a second time, Pharaoh and his “wise” men weren’t very wise. Look what they did AGAIN! “But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.” (v7)  Really?  Again?  Are you joking?

Then, to make matters worse, Pharaoh lied. “Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD” …After Moses and Aaron left... Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.” (v 8, 12, 15)

So what is God's payback for his lies?  What does He do to the country whose leader went back on his word and would not let them leave?  This is great. “The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them.” (v 13-14)

Surely that will teach them! I know it would have made me want to rent a bus and drive the Israelites out of town myself. Now Eygpt is full of the smell of yesterday's dead fish and  today’s dead frogs.

What could God do after this? What is going to die next? What odors will we have to endure? What does tomorrow have in store?