The Night that it happened

Picture yourself at night, at home, sleeping. You pick up a book, the book is The Bible and you read about what happened in Egypt. Recall the plagues that Jehovah brought on Egypt. Close your eyes and try to picture it.

In the first picture you can see Aaron hitting the Nile River with his stick. When he did, the water in the river turned to blood. The fish died, and the river began to stink. Can you see it?

Next, Jehovah caused frogs to come up out of the Nile River. They were everywhere—in the ovens, the baking pans, in people’s beds—everywhere. When the frogs died the Egyptians piled them up in great heaps, and the land stank with them.

Then Aaron hit the ground with his stick, and the dust turned into gnats. These are small flying bugs that bite. The gnats were the third plague on the land of Egypt.
The rest of the plagues hurt only the Egyptians, not the Israelites. The fourth was a plague of big flies that swarmed into the houses of all the Egyptians. The fifth plague was on the animals. Many of the cattle and sheep and goats of the Egyptians died.

Next, Moses and Aaron took some ashes and threw them into the air. They caused bad sores on the people and the animals. This was the sixth plague. After that Moses raised his hand toward the sky, and Jehovah sent thunder and hail. It was the worst hailstorm that Egypt ever had.

The eighth plague was a large swarm of locusts. Never before that time or since have there been so many locusts. They ate everything that the hail had not destroyed.
The ninth plague was of darkness. For three days thick darkness covered the land, but the Israelites had light where they were living.

Finally, God told his people to sprinkle the blood of a young goat or a young sheep on their doorposts. Then God’s angel passed over Egypt. When the angel saw the blood, he did not kill anyone in that house. But in all the houses where there was no blood on the doorposts, God’s angel killed the firstborn ones of both man and animals. This was the 10th plague.

After this last plague, Phar′aoh told the Israelites to leave. God’s people were all ready to go, and that very night they started their march out of Egypt. Open your eyes. When you think of the plagues, what comes to mind?

Before any of the plagues hit Phar′aoh could have listened and allowed God's people to leave. He didn't and thus the plagues continued. After the first plague, it should have shown Phar′aoh that Jehovah is more powerful that any man made God's that humans have made. It didn't and thus Phar′aoh died there at the Red Sea.

Although you might have watched in movies that he returned to Egypt, he didn't. He died at the Red Sea along with his men. In the Book of Exodus 14:23-28. We read that it was Phar'aoh's men but it does not say anything about Phar'aoh himself.

However, Psalm 136:1-15 shows that Pharaoh did perish. There we read of the giving of thanks by the people ‘to the One striking down Egypt in their firstborn ones, and the One bringing Israel out of the midst of them by a strong hand and by an arm stretched out, to the One severing the Red Sea into parts, and who caused Israel to pass through the middle of it, and who shook off Pharaoh and his military force into the Red Sea.’

So the book of Psalms complements Exodus and indicates that the haughty Pharaoh, who oppressed the Israelites, died in the Red Sea. The movies don't tell you this and thus you might have believed that he did not die and returned to his kingdom.

I've watched the 10 commandments many times on TV. I've watched the one about Jesus as well. Research in scripture shows that both are not accurate so you must be careful when watching.

What is the point in bringing this up? Well, when you think of our time and when you think of their time. Jehovah can and will deliver us from whomever, whatever. We can trust that he will.

When the Israelites cried out to God because of their slavery in Egypt, Jehovah took notice. Do you not think that he doesn't notice what's going on now? If you were God, wouldn't you notice? We are close to the End of this system of things......God does notice what's going on.