The past two chapters have had a very important detail. Notice that God tells Moses that he has hardened Pharaoh’s heart. This is one of the qualities and characteristics of God that I forget about sometimes. Naturally my mind usually links a hardened heart to sin which is correct. Consistently ignoring God in our lives slowly but surely hardens our hearts, but to think that God would harden a heart for his will and for his good is hard for me to understand. It is also hard for me to understand why God would kill all of the first born males of Egypt but God is just. For God to be just all sins must be paid for. A blood sacrifice has always been the payment for sin since the beginning of the world. This is where the hardest questions are answered. One of the hardest questions for me to answer is “if God is so good why do all of these bad things happen to us in this world we live in?” What we must first understand is that sin cannot exist where God is. It is impossible. When God created Adam and Eve they were created perfect without sin with the gift of free will. Free will allows us to have a true and real relationship with God. When Adam and Eve abused that free will, sin entered the world and God cannot exist with them anymore. From that point on sin entered the world and the only way God could exist with his creation is to take care of the sin barrier. That sin barrier is broken down by a specific blood sacrifice. In the Old Testament God’s people were instructed by God a specific way to sacrifice so that he could exist with them but all of these sacrifices were temporary. The permanent and final atonement for all sins had to be paid for by the Lord himself, Jesus Christ. His blood was the only blood perfect enough to pay for the sins of the world once and for all. When we accept this we are then saved from Gods righteous judgment of sin which is inevitable. The Israelites were saved from God’s judgment then, in Moses’s time by a temporary blood sacrifice and today we are saved from God’s judgment by the permanent perfect blood sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is why he is worthy of us giving our lives to him because our lives were meant to belong to him anyways since Adam and Eve. Sin has separated us from God and has exposed us to God’s judgment instead of the relationship God intended for us to all have with him. He loves us enough to die for us even though we choose daily to pursue the things of this world. It is hard to understand that love and how strong it is. God looks at us in all of our sin and still loves us. There is nothing you can do for you to not have a relationship with God other than to reject him. To reject Jesus is to accept the judgment of your sin. God gives us a way out and that way out is through the perfect blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Love y’all! Have a great day!
Exodus 11:1-10
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“The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out of here. Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold items.” The Lord gave the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded in the land of Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and the people. So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again. But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry. The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.”
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