The Ten Plagues On Egypt

Turn with me to Exodus chapter three. Exodus three, we are going to cover a lot of ground this morning. With with everything that I saw in this part of me wants to take 10 or 12 messages to go through this really, but I Believe in my heart that we will get a hold of this more if we will see it in the big picture So that's what we are going to try to do this morning.

We're gonna see the big picture of the ten plagues that the Lord brought on Egypt 10 plagues that the Lord brought because of Egypt's sin against him and because of the bondage that they brought on the Lord's people. The Lord brought 10 plagues to deliver his people from Egypt and from that bondage. And here in Exodus chapter 3, the Lord revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush. And then right after that, in verse 7, the Lord God said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. Verse 8 says, and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

Now I want to tell you, that's the key to the whole study this morning. I'm going to tell you that now, and I'm going to tell you that at the end. But let's just lay it all out there. That's the key to it all. He said, I am come down to deliver them.

Out of the hand of the Egyptians, verse 8 goes on to say, and to bring them up. out of that land unto a good land and unto a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now, therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is coming to me, and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." The Lord said, Moses, I'm going to send you to announce their delivery.

And I want to go ahead and remind us that Moses represents the law. All right? Moses represents the law, the holy law of God. John 1 verse 17 says, the law was given by Moses. It was given to us from God. God gave it. It's God's law. But it was given to us from God by way of Moses. What God told Moses to say to God's people is literally written down right here. We have it right here. God's word of commandment to us has come to us by way of his holy law.

And that's what Moses is a picture of, the holy law of God. Pharaoh and Egypt represent the bondage that God's people are in. I'm looking at people and you're looking at a man who, by nature, is in bondage. By nature, we are in bondage, okay? Pharaoh and Egypt represent the bondage that God's people are in by nature.

We are born into it. You know, by this point, Jacob is gone and dead and Joseph is gone and they're gone. They forgot Joseph. That's all over. All these people were born into it. They don't remember coming out of They were born into this, and that's what we are. We're born into bondage.

And that is what Moses is going to. That's what Moses is confronting, the bondage. Hopefully this will make sense. That's what Moses is going to. And that's what he's confronting, the bondage. This is the law of God. confronting the bondage of man. So he said, Moses, I'm going to send you to make this declaration. And in chapter 4, he gave Moses two signs to prove that he was sent of God. And now we're going to read a little bit, but I'm going to quote a lot to you and I'll give you scriptures to see this, but I'm going to have to move fairly quickly. But he gave Moses two signs to go and speak.

The first one was, he said, Moses, I want you to take that rod that's in your hand and you throw it on the ground. And he did. And it became a snake. And Moses was afraid. Moses didn't want anything to do with that snake. And the Lord said, now you touch it by the tail and pick it up, and it became a rod again. And that is Exodus 4 verses 2 to 4. That's what it says right there.

In the scripture, snakes, serpents, always represent sin. Always. They always represent sin. As a picture of Christ crucified, Moses later had to lift up a serpent on a pole. Sin. Picturing the fact that Christ had to be made sin, made what was killing the people, made what they were in bondage to in their stead to deliver them.

All right, the second sign that the Lord gave was he said, Moses, you stick your hand in your robe and pull it back out. And when he did, his hand was full of leprosy. And then he said, Moses, put your hand back in your robe and pull it out again. And it was clean. In the scripture, leprosy always represents sin. Always. Sin, that's Exodus four, verses six and seven. That's what he told him.

Romans three, verse 20 says, by the law is the knowledge of sin. By the law is the knowledge of sin. You ever been driving down the road and then all of a sudden seeing a speed limit sign and went, ah, I had no idea it was 35 and I'm doing 70. By the law is the knowledge of sin.

It's not until the law comes that men and women are made aware of their sin. And this is, you know, I don't have time to veer off, but let me just veer off and say, here's the problem for false religion. They're blind to God's law. That's the problem. They're blind to the law. And until the law comes, men and women are not made aware of their sin. It is the holy law of God that comes in and points the finger and cries, thou art a man, sin. Paul said in Romans 7, I had not known sin, but by the law.

He said, I had not known lust, except the law had said thou shalt not covet. You know, lust, all it is is a feeling inside. That's all it is. That's all it is. And he said, I would have never known that that feeling inside of me was sin had the law not told me. The law is the exposer of sin, and that's exactly what Moses was doing in the ten plagues, exposing sin. That's what he was doing. Now, if you look at Exodus 4, verse 10, Exodus 4, verse 10, Moses said unto the Lord, oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant, but I'm slow of speech and of a slow tongue.

And the Lord said unto him, who hath made man's mouth or who maketh the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind? Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, oh my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of whom thou wilt send. Send somebody else. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.

And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. Thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth, And I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people, and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

Now, this is the law and the preacher. That's what this is. The law and the preacher. This is how the law comes to sinners. This is God's ordained means of declaring his commandments. I know it sounds like Moses caused this, but he didn't. God did this. God does everything. This was just the ordained means of bringing it to pass.

The Lord said, Moses, you are going to speak to Aaron and Aaron is going to speak to the people. And that is the very ordained means that are taking place right now. This word speaks to me and I speak to you. And this is how the Lord ordained for it to be. The Lord said, I'm going to be with thy mouth and I'm going to be with the mouth of the law. And He is. If it's of God, He is. The Lord said the preacher is going to be the mouth and the law is going to be God. And it is. It is. I only say what this tells me to say. And whatever this says is God. This is God. So the Lord has now said, Moses and Aaron, you're going to go together to make this declaration.

And this declaration is going to expose what God's people are in bondage to. Each one of these 10 plagues exposes what God's people are in bondage to. And the word of commandment to what they're in bondage to is let my people go. The word of commandment to what God's people are in bondage to is from God is let my people go. And the very end of the announcement declares why God's people must be let go.

It's a reason so great. And if anyone remembers the 10th plague, I'll let your mind wander for a second. We should get to it. But if anyone remembers what the last plague was, The remedy is in that last plague and it's so great. Even the law itself had to cry, let him go. The remedy was so great. The deliverance was so great. Let me just, before I tell you this, let me just emphasize that. It was so great. The law itself was the one, do you enter into that? The law itself was the one crying, let him go, let him go. You see that?

Deliverance has been made. You know, the law, we're about to see, well, let me just stop talking. I don't have time to ramble. Here we go. Alright, ten plagues declare what God's people are in bondage to. The law has come to confront the problem. The law has come to confront the problem and to declare the remedy.

Moses and Aaron told, and you know, most of you, you may not remember the fullness of it, but you remember how it went. You know, they would come and say, let my people go. And Pharaoh would say, no, you know, he'd say, I'll do it. Okay. I'm not going to do it. I changed my mind. And, uh, so they said, let them go. And Pharaoh said, no. So look now with me at chapter seven, Exodus chapter seven, verse 19.

Exodus 7 verse 19, And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, and upon their rivers, upon their ponds, upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood. and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone, And Moses and Aaron did so as the Lord commanded. And he lifted up the rod and smoked the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, in the sight of his servants. And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

That water being turned into blood represents sin. Sin, sin, sin. This is where it starts. Sin. What was producing life to them? And you know, man's self-righteousness. Man's false religion. Man is so proud of himself, so proud of who he is, and so proud of what he does, and so proud of how good he is. And what was producing life to them all of a sudden started producing death. Death. Death. This is what happens when the law comes. Everything started dying, and the root cause of that is sin. The cost of sin is blood. The reason for blood is sin. And that's the very thing that all of God's people are in bondage to, sin. Sin. The law and the prophet cried, sin, first thing.

And false religion cried that too. Look at verse 22. And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them as the Lord had said. They turned water into blood too. And false religion is in pulpits crying, sin, sin. God's true preachers are crying sin. False religion is crying sin. And people are trying to figure out, well, what's the difference? They're saying it too. Well, it doesn't change the fact that everyone is in bondage to sin. The truth is crying it. False religion is crying it. All right, here's the second plague. Frogs. Look at chapter 8, verse 2.

If thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, into thy bedchamber, upon thy bed, into thy house of thy servants and upon thy people, into thy ovens, into thy kneading troughs. The frogs shall come up both on thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying to Aaron, stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt."

Don't turn, but we're going to take this representation from a verse of Scripture in Revelation 16. Verse 13 says, I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come up out of the mouth of the dragon. Unclean like frogs. Uncleanness. Uncleanness. That's what God's people are in bondage to. Uncleanness. Just like those leopards that had to cry unclean, unclean. I'm so unclean. In our natural bondage, that's us. Verse 7, and the magicians did so with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land. False religion does the same thing. False religion stands in pulpit going, unclean, unclean. Same thing.

All right, now, that's the last one the magicians could do. Those two, that's all they could do. They could stand up here and cry, sad, sad, I'm praying. That's all they could do. Those two. After this, the magicians couldn't do it. And see if this doesn't really expose the truth of false religion.

All right, the third plague, look at chapter eight, verse 16. And the Lord said unto Moses, say unto Aaron, stretch out that rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. Lice from dust it came. The word lice means the root of, because it gets in and it roots in, it's hard to get it out. It's rooted in. It means the root of, rooted in corruption.

That's what God's people are in bondage to, corruption, the pit of corruption. Job 17, 14 says, I have said to corruption, thou art my father, to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. First Corinthians 15, 42 says, these bodies are sown in corruption, sown. In corruption, false religion will never tell you that. It will never tell you that. It will never say that we are sown, I mean, conceived in, we come forth in corruption. Utter, total corruption. But we are. We are. All right, the fourth plague, verse 24. Exodus eight, verse 24. And the Lord did so.

And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants houses and all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted. And that means destroyed by reason of the swarm of flies ruined. Don't turn, but we're going to take this representation from Ecclesiastes 10 verse 1, which says, dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor. A stinking savor, not a sweet smelling savor. God's people are in bondage to the stanch of their own ruin and decay.

Here's the fifth plague. Look at chapter nine, verse two. For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, upon the sheep, there shall be a very grievous murrain. The word mirein means disease. There's gonna be a very grievous disease. Psalm 38 verse seven says, my, and you go ahead and you put your name in my.

My loins are filled with a loathsome disease. That's what I am, disease. There is no soundness in my flesh, none. You will never hear false religion tell you that. But you won't. There's some good in there. You're going to have to find it. You're going to have to dig it up. You're going to have to make something out of yourself. You're going to have to start pleasing God. You're going to have to get rid of that bad and start, you know, you're not going to hear it. You're not going to hear it. But that's the case for every man and woman by nature. That's the case.

All right, the sixth plague. Chapter 9, verse 8 says, And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt and shall be a boil breaking forth with blames upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of Egypt. boils and blames. That is wounds, bruises, and putrefying sores from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. That is God's people. That is God's people. The seventh leg.

Chapter 9 verse 22. And the Lord said unto Moses, stretch forth thine hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and upon beast and upon every herb of the field throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail and the fire ran upon along the ground upon the ground and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt so there was hail and fire mingled with the hail very grievous such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation and the hail smoked Throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast, and the hail smoked every herb of the field and break every tree of the field. Hail mingled with fire.

That's judgment. That is judgment. That's what God's people by nature are in bondage to. Judgment. Condemnation. Verse 26 says, only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. That's Christ. That land is Christ. The only place where we can be spared the judgment, because there's no condemnation there, is in Christ.

Chapter 10 verse 12 says that the eighth plague was locusts. The name means consumption. Consumed. And that's what all of God's people will be, alright? That's what all of God's people will be if He ever changes His mind or if He ever changes His ways. concerning His mercy and His grace in Christ. Thank God His changing is not a possibility. Thank God it is not a possibility. He said, I am the Lord, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Chapter 10 verse 21 says the ninth plague was darkness. darkness, blindness, ignorance. Look at chapter 10, verse 21. It says, And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. Where were they dwelling?

Spiritually? In Christ. In the Lord Jesus Christ, the light. Chapter 11 says the last plague, plague number 10, was death. Death. And this is what the law is crying. Look at verse one, chapter 11, verse one says, and the Lord said unto Moses, yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Verse 4, and Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, about midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt, and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast, that you may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." What was that difference? Well, it started in chapter three with him saying, I am come down. What was the only difference? He said, I am come down.

And what he came down to do is pictured in chapter 12 with a Passover lamb. And if the Lord is willing, we're going to look at that substitute Passover lamb tonight. That's what we're going to look at tonight. By a substitute lamb, they were delivered.

And I'll go ahead and end this by saying that because of that lamb, God was satisfied. And everything else was satisfied. Because of that lamb, all of this crying, all of this announcing, all of this by that one lamb. Because of that lamb, everything was completely, totally satisfied to the point that even the holy law of God itself had to say, let them go.

Let them go. Let them go from all their bondage. They've been delivered. They have been set free. Sin, uncleanness, corruption, stench, disease, vileness, judgment, consumption, darkness, death. But in Christ, because of Christ, God Almighty says, let them go. Let him go. In Christ, that's what the holy law of God, literally, that's what this book says. Literally, this is what God's law says concerning his bound by nature people. A ransom has been found. They have been delivered. Let him go. And when that is the commandment of God Almighty, that is exactly what happens. That's what happens. Our Lord said, they shall know the truth and the truth shall make them free. And they were, and we are.

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