It would almost be funny if we didn't know the end of the story and that it will end with great tragedy. I mean, here is a people subjected to worse and worse plagues. It's almost melodrama plague after plague after plague being rolled out. "Let us go now?" "Not now." "Ok, how about now?"
The first few plagues are even slightly comic. "Yuck, what's this in my cup?" And frogs hopping around everywhere. And royal magicians who show their power...by making more frogs? "Frogs, not a problem. Frogs we can do, but we don't do gnats. We draw the line at gnats."
A nation that must suffer progressively worse plagues before it will listen to God. Sound familiar? Make of it what you will.
And what did the Jewish slaves think? They had been promised to be a great nation and to be given a land by God. They had heard about this promise now for over 400 years. Did they still believe in it? They were slaves and the nation they were enslaved to were so amazing, so powerful. How could this promise ever happen? Was it just a slaves dream?
Again, sound familiar? We live in a time and a place where a slave's dream has become true.
My post from last year on this date.
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