A quick summary of this is that, well… the Pharaoh wanted to tighten his grip on the Israelites even more, so God literally flooded all of Egypt with frogs, and when they were all gone, the Pharaoh had harden himself again, and God took note of it. Ever had one of those days where nothing seems to go right even with God’s intervention? I’m like, “That sucks, I’m sorry, dude (or ma’am)” — but a side note, if someone calls everyone “dude” and “bro” I’d literally laugh out loud even with the manager watching 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is glorious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 but Jesus wanted to try many methods of the Pharaoh repenting even though He had already known he wouldn’t believe Him (see John 6:64) — also, has anyone noticed that this idea of God hardening Pharaoh’s heart being preached A WHOLE LOT as if the Hebrew had intended this? Please note that the Hebrew to English translations are insanely awkward when verses like Exodus 8:15 are translated, as I remember reading in my HCSB study Bible once. Thank God someone decided to write this down 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼💪🏼🤘🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼 however, there are SO. MANY. PEOPLE. who decided to abuse this and destroy the Church’s reputation… and now that the great apostasy’s been perfected because of the pandemic we’re in, one can actually argue that everyone is going to lose except for the elitists. But Jesus is still preaching His Word everywhere (look at passages such as Romans 2:12-16 — also, I’ve noticed Calvinistic people abuse this, too, like, that’s not ok) — I pray we can be salt and light in a world in which literally every culture is trying to get the people in them to worship literal atheism dressed up as Christianity or something else… and the devil is good at hunting down every disciple of Jesus and destroying them from within. The fact that 2 John 7-9 notes that nowadays, the church is completely overrun with hypocrites — that means not even Hillsong is safe from this, but thankfully, Christian leaders such as the South African team still exist, and I loved hearing worship in an African language — for instance, I learned this week that “omkhulu” is “majesty” in one of them, probably indigenous… and I can’t wait for more beautiful expressions if Jesus like this ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 (I was promoting #BLM, haha but sadly, I don’t have any African ancestry, sorry…) but I love seeing people of multiple ethnicities, and I wish the U.S. was more diverse. Like, no joke, I once ran into a South Sudanese employee at the mental health clinic I was regularly going to five years or so ago, but I don’t visit often nowadays because of work — they know I’m doing ok, and I wouldn’t risk making Jesus look bad in ANY circumstance… but I want to focus on things better. I wonder how this guy’s doing, I miss him… I also ran into some Pacific Islanders one time at the store, and it was fantastic 👩🏾👨🏾💅🏾 — we need to be appreciative if EVERYONE regardless of skin color or national origin, even if it looks like they have no future. Thankfully, people in Egypt can be saved, and I pray for revival there.
Edit: I just realized I never wrote down where this passage is found in my four Bibles I’m using for this round of Bible notes… it’s in pages 35-36 of my NKJV Bible, pages 45-46 of my NASB Bible, pages 79-80 of my VOICE copy, and pages 76-77 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy. I’m really sorry for not doing this earlier, and yes, this is put before my outro here 😅
If you have anything you can pray about or want to write to me, you can do this at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each request, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you in the next part of this chapter… there’s several more of these plagues to go through until we reach the end of chapter 12… this is going to be something else.
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