Exodus 9 Bible Study, the plague on the livestock, the plague of boils and the plague of hail.

Description:
In Exodus chapter 9 we look at plagues 5-7, the plague on the “livestock of the fields,” the plague of boils, and the plague of hail. The back-and-forth battle between God (through Moses) and Pharaoh continues as Moses requests the release of the Israelites and Pharaoh continues to have a hard heart.

Outline:
03:19 - Exodus 9.1-7
04:26 - Plague 5 - Plague on the livestock of the fields
06:37 - Naturalistic explanation of the plagues
15:09 - Exodus 9.8-13
16:26 - Hebrew word study: Furnace, כִּבְשָׁן kiḇšān (kiln, smelting forge, brick kiln) Ex. 5.7-19. The soot/ash symbolized Egyptian slavery and oppression.
20:16 - Plague 6, the Plague of boils. What were the boils?
21:34 - Exodus 9.12 - first instance of the Lord hardening Pharaoh’s heart.
22:46 - Judgment on the Egyptian Gods through the plague of boils: (Sekhmet, Sunu, and Isis)
23:34 - Judgment on the Egyptian Gods through the plague on the livestock: Egyptian goddess Hathor as well as Apis (the Apis bull) and on Ptah
26:17 - Exodus 9.13-35
29:48 - Plague 7, Plague of Hail and Lightning
34:12 - Imagine how extreme this storm was - illustration thunderstorm in Colorado.
37:55 - Exodus 9.31-32 - flax and barley - this plague hit in either January or February.
40:43 - Plague of hail may have been an attack on the Egyptian sky goddess Nut, as well as Osiris, and Set.
42:35 - Application. The hard heart of an unbeliever.

Psalm 18.25-26, “to the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked, you show yourself shrewd.”

Ephesians 4.17-19, “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.”

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Books used or referenced:

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