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Pharaoh has said that he won't let God's people go. He doesn't know or understand who he's dealing with, but God's going to show him with the 10 most amazing, powerful signs he'd done since he first made the world. Join us as we explore Exodus chapter 7.
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Speaker:We've been going through the Story of ExoduS, the second book in the Bible.
Speaker:God's people, the Israelites, or they're also known as the Hebrews.
Speaker:They're not in the land that God's going to give them, the land of CAnAaN.
Speaker:They're in Egypt.
Speaker:And the EGyPTIanS have been treating them
Speaker:really badly, making them slaves, beating them up.
Speaker:The egyptian king, Pharaoh, he thinks he's so great, he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker:He thinks he's got the greatest power, he's got the greatest gods.
Speaker:He even thinks he's a kind of God on earth.
Speaker:So when Moses and Aaron turn up saying, the
Speaker:God of the Hebrews says, let my people go, he's like, whoa, the God of the Hebrews?
Speaker:Who's that? I don't know him.
Speaker:And I don't have to listen to him.
Speaker:I'm the powerful one.
Speaker:Egypt is the most powerful country, not these silly Hebrews and their puny God.
Speaker:And the Israelites kinda believe him.
Speaker:They're like, ah, don't make pharaoh angry.
Speaker:He'll hurt us more.
Speaker:It's not like God can save us from him or
Speaker:anything.
Speaker:It's because they, the Israelites and
Speaker:Egyptians and pharaoh, they don't know God.
Speaker:They don't know how powerful he is.
Speaker:They don't know how faithful to his people he is.
Speaker:They don't know how much he cares about fairness, how angry he gets when people do
Speaker:horrible things.
Speaker:They don't know how committed he is to saving
Speaker:his people.
Speaker:They're about to find out.
Speaker:God is about to show his awesome power to the world.
Speaker:He's about to show all those other things to the world so that the Egyptians and pharaoh
Speaker:and the Israelites and we can truly know him.
Speaker:He's going to send ten mighty plagues, ten
Speaker:signs of power, ten wonders that'll show who the real God is.
Speaker:Get ready for our next episode of stories of a faithful God for kids.
Speaker:At the end of our last episode, God had just shown that hes more powerful than the gods of
Speaker:Egypt.
Speaker:He turned aarons staff into a snake.
Speaker:All the magicians who work for the egyptian gods also turned their staffs into snakes.
Speaker:But gods snake swallowed all of theirs.
Speaker:That was a tiny sign, but it should have been
Speaker:enough for them to go, ah, we're in trouble here.
Speaker:Maybe we should just, um, give them what they want.
Speaker:But what God wants is to be known, and they don't know him properly yet.
Speaker:And so he's made pharaoh stubborn to make sure he can show everyone who he is.
Speaker:It's not like he's making pharaoh evil.
Speaker:Pharaoh's already evil.
Speaker:God's just not letting him escape what's coming.
Speaker:It's time for plague number one.
Speaker:It has to do with the Nile river.
Speaker:The Nile is the longest river in the world, and it's the only reason Egypt can exist.
Speaker:Egypt is a desert.
Speaker:Except where the Nile runs, every year it
Speaker:floods, and the water has something called silt in it.
Speaker:Grains of broken up rock from the mountains that, when it gets into the soil, makes it
Speaker:really fertile.
Speaker:That means it's much easier to grow food
Speaker:there.
Speaker:So even today, if you look at a satellite
Speaker:photo of Egypt, it's like desert.
Speaker:Desert.
Speaker:Desert.
Speaker:Desert.
Speaker:Whoa. It's really green.
Speaker:What a great farm.
Speaker:Hey, there's the river.
Speaker:Oh, look.
Speaker:Another beautiful farm.
Speaker:Desert. Desert. Desert. Desert.
Speaker:Desert.
Speaker:The egyptians get their water to drink from the Nile.
Speaker:They rely on the Nile for their food.
Speaker:Lots of food means they can have lots of
Speaker:people, which means bigger armies, which means more power.
Speaker:In fact, they're one of, if not the most powerful country around.
Speaker:So, let's see what God does to the Nile.
Speaker:I'll read from Exodus, chapter seven, verse
Speaker:14.
Speaker:Then the Lord said to Moses, the king is being
Speaker:stubborn.
Speaker:He refuses to let the people go.
Speaker:In the morning, the king will go out to the Nile river.
Speaker:Go meet him by the edge of the river.
Speaker:Take with you the walking stick that became a
Speaker:snake.
Speaker:Tell him this.
Speaker:The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you.
Speaker:He said, let my people go worship me in the desert.
Speaker:Until now, you have not listened.
Speaker:This is what the Lord says.
Speaker:This is how you will know that I am the Lord.
Speaker:I will strike the water of the Nile river with
Speaker:this stick in my hand, and the water will change into blood.
Speaker:Then the fish of the Nile will die, and the river will begin to stink, and the Egyptians
Speaker:will not be able to drink the water from the Nile.
Speaker:The Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron to stretch the walking stick in his hand over the rivers,
Speaker:canals, ponds and pools.
Speaker:In Egypt, the water will become blood
Speaker:everywhere in Egypt, there even will be blood in the wooden buckets and stone jars.
Speaker:So gross, right? So powerful.
Speaker:Did you hear God say, this is how you'll know that I am the Lord?
Speaker:He turns the longest river in the world into blood.
Speaker:Even the water that people have in their jars and pots turns into blood.
Speaker:Who has that sort of power? Surely only the greatest God.
Speaker:Why does the Lord start with the Nile? And why blood?
Speaker:Well, like I said before, the Nile is the whole reason that Egypt's able to exist.
Speaker:But there's more to it than that, actually.
Speaker:You see, the Nile was treated like a God.
Speaker:They had a God of the Nile.
Speaker:Happy?
Speaker:No, no, not happy.
Speaker:Like, haha, I'm so happy.
Speaker:Yay.
Speaker:It's spelt H A p I. Happy was also known as
Speaker:the lord of the fish.
Speaker:Well, now it's like happy's river is put to
Speaker:death.
Speaker:And those fish that he's supposed to be lord
Speaker:of, they all die.
Speaker:The true Lord, the God of the Hebrews, is
Speaker:showing who the real God is.
Speaker:But there's even more to it than that.
Speaker:Do you remember what the Egyptians did to the hebrew baby boys back around when Moses was
Speaker:born? They wanted them dead, and so they threw them
Speaker:into the river.
Speaker:The river that was the source of life for the
Speaker:Egyptians became the place of death for the Hebrews.
Speaker:God was watching, and now he's saying, I'm angry.
Speaker:This is just a small punishment for that evil that they did.
Speaker:It isn't a full punishment.
Speaker:A full punishment would be putting them to
Speaker:death.
Speaker:God kindly holds back from that to give them a
Speaker:chance to learn who the real God is.
Speaker:So in front of the king and all his officers,
Speaker:Aaron hits the Nile with his staff and it turns to blood.
Speaker:We read this in verse 21.
Speaker:The fish of the Nile died, and the river began
Speaker:to stink, so the Egyptians could not drink water from it.
Speaker:Blood was everywhere in the land of Egypt.
Speaker:There's no way anyone in Egypt can miss this.
Speaker:Everyone sees it.
Speaker:Everyone has to ask, who's in charge of this
Speaker:water? Who has so much power over the nile and over
Speaker:the God? Happy, do you know the blood in the river is a
Speaker:sign of punishment from God.
Speaker:God's punishing the Egyptians and their gods
Speaker:for their sin, for their evil.
Speaker:Normally they have water, and the water brings
Speaker:life.
Speaker:But instead they've got this blood which shows
Speaker:death.
Speaker:I wonder if you remember what happened not
Speaker:long after Jesus died on the cross.
Speaker:He was still on the cross, but the people
Speaker:wanted to make sure that he really was dead.
Speaker:And so one of the soldiers picked up a spear
Speaker:and shoved it into his side.
Speaker:And do you remember what came out?
Speaker:Water and blood.
Speaker:The symbol of life and the symbol of death.
Speaker:Why would you have both symbols at the same time?
Speaker:It's because Jesus death brought life.
Speaker:The punishment that Jesus took meant that we
Speaker:didn't have to be punished.
Speaker:His death gives us eternal life when we put
Speaker:our trust in him, turn away from our sin and ask to follow his way.
Speaker:It's a great sign of God's salvation.
Speaker:Back in Egypt, Pharaoh's magicians remember
Speaker:them.
Speaker:They used their tricks and do the same thing
Speaker:of turning some water into blood.
Speaker:And so Pharaoh thinks, this is fine.
Speaker:I don't have to listen to this God.
Speaker:Verse 22 says, so.
Speaker:The king was stubborn and refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.
Speaker:This happened just as the Lord had said.
Speaker:The king turned and went into his palace.
Speaker:He ignored what Moses and Aaron had done.
Speaker:While he's off in a huff thinking, yeah,
Speaker:everything's fine.
Speaker:His people are really struggling.
Speaker:They need water to survive.
Speaker:They don't have fancy taps and showers and
Speaker:flushing toilets.
Speaker:All they have is the water from the river and
Speaker:the creeks that flow out from it and the canals that flow out from it.
Speaker:Verse 24 says the Egyptians could not drink the water from the Nile, so all of them dug
Speaker:along the bank of the river.
Speaker:They were looking for water to drink.
Speaker:That's the first of the ten plagues, the ten signs to show who the real Lord is.
Speaker:If God started so powerfully, so amazingly, what's he gonna do next?
Speaker:Well, that's a story for next time.
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