Israel comes out of Egypt ready to go the land of milk and honey. Instead of heading north, the Lord takes them south into the wilderness. Not only is this…

God delivers Israel from death, redeeming them when the angel sees blood on the doors and passes over. They’ve just left Egypt but their redemption continues because every firstborn is…

What God promises and prepares, He accomplishes. His patience and warnings have been long and clear, but now in the tenth plague the angel of death comes to every house…

In the last plague the Lord comes to every household in Egypt but He passes over those with marked with the blood of a lamb. Passover is a foundational event…

After three cycles of three, nine plagues, Pharaoh still strives to oppress Israel. Now justice will come to Egypt in the final plague that will liberate Israel from slavery and…

The first six plagues expose and humiliate the idols of Egypt, but the last cycle of three absolutely decimates the land. Hail destroys the crops, locusts gobble up anything left,…

The plagues of Egypt are God’s demolition of an idolatrous nation. He turned the Nile to blood, defeating the god Hapi, and made the fertility goddess Heqet stink in piles…

After the Nile turns to blood, Pharaoh hardens his heart and brings on the second plague. Frogs represented Heqet, the goddess of fertility in Egypt. Yahweh shows Himself to be…

The Nile represented various gods to the Egyptians—fertility, growth, abundance—because it transformed their desert into a fruitful land. They made this gift into an idol, and like all sin, idolatry…

Moses is Yahweh’s instrument to get glory over Pharaoh and answer the question, “Who is God?”. This passage leads up to the famous ten plagues and begins the confrontation that…