Exodus 11:4-7
So Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About
midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5 and every firstborn in the land
of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even
to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the
firstborn of the cattle.
When the previous plagues God sent became too much for you, you could appeal to Him to take them away, but what do
you do now that God Himself is the plague? This last devastation is experiencing
the presence of God without a Mediator, meeting God unprepared. When frogs filled the land, you cried out to God, but to whom do you cry when God fills the land?
God rescued you from the locusts, but
who can rescue you from God?
I love (and am terrified by) this thought. Your sermon on this very topic is still very real in my mind.
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