Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 10-12.

I have a Youtube video of me reading the Scripture passage and my comments. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts.

During the earlier plagues the passages tell us either that Pharaoh hardened his heart, or that Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, but beginning today with the eighth plague it tells us that the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart.  Initially, Pharaoh chose not to accept what God put before him, or allowed other things convince him not to believe.  But eventually Pharaoh lost the ability to choose to avoid further suffering from the plagues.  In order to explain my point I need to go back to something I chose not to mention yesterday.  Each of the plagues was a “refutation” of the power of the gods of Egypt.  Each plague was demonstration that God has power over an area which was supposedly under the domain of one or more of the gods of Egypt.  So, when Pharaoh hardened his heart, or had his heart hardened, he was denying the evidence that the God of the Hebrews existed and was more powerful than the gods of Egypt.  In the same way you will see today people who argue against Christianity will present arguments for rejecting Christianity, but when one of their arguments is refuted will turn to another argument without acknowledging that their argument failed.  Eventually, they become emotionally invested in their arguments and unable to reason about them at all.  In this passage we see that Pharaoh became overcome by his anger such that he stopped thinking rationally.  The end result being that the Egyptians plundered themselves of great wealth to get the Israelites to leave.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.