Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
Exodus 11:5 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.
A Fearful midnight upon the earth it was for God to go to such means to convince a sinner of His greatness! Pharaoh had entered a battle of wills that he had no way of winning. God was done with granting the mercies that were in the earlier battles. God was merciful all through and yet He clearly gave us His purpose or we would have considered Him a bully to have even entered the contest. He was intentional that the world would have a clear testimony of who is the greater, Pharaoh or God and that none in any generation would have excuse to miss this truth.
Proverbs 10:3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Our access to God and the blessings are not because of bloodline at all. We must always acknowledge that our relationship to God is through His Son and not through our own bloodline. That is a very clear thing that was said by God in Exodus about the Pharaoh. The essence of false religion is that all people are equally related to God. God said I made a difference between Israel and everyone else. His plagues were the public expression of that to the world and the wise of the earth got it.
Although you belong to the greatest country on the earth, Egypt, if you lift your hand against Israel or the Church in the NT time, you will be thrust down to the dust. That Pharaoh may know that God has set a line of division between Israel and Egypt he continues to mark that distinction regardless of our heedlessness. If we come in any other name, you are condemned. Jesus’ name alone is salvation!
“And at midnight” are we the foolish or the wise virgins? The bridegroom cometh! the judgment is upon us! Our children taught of the Lord, Jesus or given to the flames of the hedonism of our culture. We are delivered into the blessings of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, through the blood of Jesus alone. As a unit of the Church and no other means at all. We are not lone receivers. We are not personal inheritors of random blessings. That was the deception of Egypt. Pharaoh had dominion and was the greatest personal example of God’s letter of intention for human beings on the earth in having dominion and yet his fist was in the face of God! God said my letter of intention of man’s purpose is subjugated to the blessings of relationship, first.
What does it profit a man?
To gain the whole world?
And to lose his own soul?
To lose his firstborn son?
I say that those things are nearly synonymous sometimes??
Jesus does care about what we care about!
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