Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
All Powerful God
In the book of Exodus, the LORD (Yahweh) displayed His awesome power and almighty hand through signs and wonders, so that the evil Pharaoh would know that the God of the Hebrews is the only true King and God of heaven and earth. Moses and Aaron repeatedly went to the wicked Pharaoh, who was the king of Egypt, to demand that Pharaoh release and free the Israelites (Hebrews) from slavery, or Pharaoh would experience God’s wrath and punishment. The evil Pharaoh became more and more defiant against the living Sovereign LORD God and his servants Moses and Aaron, and refused to release the Israelites from their brutal slavery. Even more, the evil Pharaoh increased the Israelites’ labor and made them work even harder. The evil Pharaoh and his taskmasters and overseers continued to beat and demand that the Hebrews continue their heavy labor building Pithom and Raamses for Egypt, while also accusing the Israelites of being weak and lazy, who did not want to work.
Therefore, the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth demonstrated His mighty power to the evil Pharaoh and the Egyptians through signs and wonders, as He sent ten plagues. These divine plagues were unprecedented in the history of Egypt. The plagues of Egypt are often called “signs,” just as Christ Jesus’s miracles in the New Testament were called “signs” as Christ Jesus’ ministry was filled with divine signs and mighty deeds. The Holy Bible warns that Satan and his evil workers, who are filled with lies, darkness, and greed, can also perform signs and wonders to lead people away from wholehearted faithfulness and allegiance to the living Sovereign LORD God. In the book of Exodus, the evil Pharaoh’s magicians and sorcerers performed similar signs and wonders as Moses and his brother Aaron, but God’s power defeated and overpowered these evil demons' signs and wonders. The evil Pharaoh’s magicians realized they had no true power, and the plagues were the “finger of God.”
In the first plague, the living Sovereign LORD God, through His servant Moses, turned all the waters into blood, including the canals, ponds, and rivers of Egypt, as well as the Egyptian Nile. Then, the living Sovereign LORD God released frogs throughout the whole land of Egypt. However, the evil Pharaoh refused to submit and obey the LORD (Yahweh). So, the living Sovereign LORD God sent more plagues throughout Egypt including pesky gnats and swarming flies, turning all the animals and livestock of Egypt sick, giving the Egyptians and the animals festering skin boils with painful sores, bringing destroying hailstorms with thunder and lightning flashes, and then He sent swarms of locusts (grasshoppers) throughout Egypt that ate all the Egyptians crops leaving Egypt in devastation and ruins.
With the divine plagues, the evil Pharaoh begged Moses to intercede and pray to the living Sovereign LORD God to take God’s punishment and wrath away from Egypt, and then he would release Israel from slavery. So, the living Sovereign LORD God listened to Moses’ prayers and removed the plagues from the land of Egypt. Moses was learning the role of intercessor that would become an important part of his life in his service to the living God. Despite Moses’ intercessory prayers, the evil Pharaoh continued his stubbornness and refused to release Israel from slavery so they could worship the living Sovereign LORD God. Moses was considered a very great man in the land of Egypt, and he was respected by Pharaoh’s officials and the Egyptian people.
Despite the numerous plagues, the evil Pharaoh lied and continued sinning against the living Sovereign LORD God by refusing to obey Him. The evil Pharaoh’s heart, who the living Sovereign LORD God controlled, remained stubborn, obstinate, and hardened, and he refused to release the Israelites from slavery so they could worship the LORD (Yahweh). However, the living Sovereign LORD God protected and shielded His people with His abiding peace from the harmful plagues, including the firstborn’s death, by passing over the Israelites’ homes. The Sovereign LORD God’s purpose of the Exodus was to reveal the God of the Hebrews, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as the only true God of heaven and earth with all power, glory, and superiority over everything, and to lead everyone to worship and honor Him as LORD and King.
Sometime later, the living Sovereign LORD God sent the ninth plague of darkness, bringing complete darkness over all of Egypt so that the evil Pharaoh would release Israel from slavery. After feeling the darkness, the evil Pharaoh agreed to release the Israelites from slavery, but once again, the wicked Pharaoh lied and refused to submit to the LORD (Yahweh) by releasing Israel from slavery. Then, the living Sovereign LORD God sent His tenth plague and final angry blow upon Egypt by destroying and killing all the Egyptians' firstborn sons living in every family, including Pharaoh’s firstborn son, and killing the firstborn of all the Egyptian male animals and livestock. The living Sovereign LORD God’s tenth and final plague was to strike and execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt so the Egyptians would know the LORD (Yahweh) is the only true God of heaven and earth. However, the living Sovereign LORD God announced to the evil Pharaoh that there would be peace and safety over God’s people.
Finally, the evil Pharaoh released the Israelites from slavery after experiencing the strong wrath and mighty power of the living Sovereign LORD God, so Israel could worship the LORD (Yahweh). The evil Pharaoh released the Israelites from slavery, and Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt as a strong and great army, with the living Sovereign LORD God as Israel’s Commander-in-Chief leading the way through His Glory Cloud—a fiery cloud that provided protection and guidance to Israel. The Israelites endured 430 years of brutal slavery and oppression as the living Sovereign LORD God warned Abraham in Genesis 15, so Israel would receive the Promised Land of God - Israel-Palestine, which flows with milk and honey, that He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Even more, the living Sovereign LORD God gave His people favor amongst the Egyptians, and Israel plundered and stripped the Egyptians of their wealth as they were leaving slavery.
From the events of Exodus, the living Sovereign LORD God established the beginning of the New Year (Abib, later called by the Babylonians Nisan), the LORD’s Passover celebration meal of the spotless Passover animal (lamb or goat), and the Festival of Unleavened Bread (celebration of seven days eating bread without yeast). The living Sovereign LORD God commanded the Israelites to take some of the Passover animal’s blood and smear it over their home’s doorframe, and then He would pass over their home during His final plague of death. Thus, the Passover meal and the Festival of Unleavened Bread are annual spring festivals that celebrate God’s eternal laws, marking the living Sovereign LORD God’s redemption and deliverance of His people, Israel, from the evil of Egyptian slavery and death.
The New Testament states that Christ Jesus celebrated the annual Jewish Passover during His public ministry on earth. Notably, Christ Jesus’ sacrificial death and resurrection are closely linked in the New Testament to the Passover season. Christ Jesus’ last supper with His disciples on Thursday evening before His sacrificial death at Calvary on Friday was the Passover meal celebration (Seder meal). Christ Jesus is the sacrificial Passover Lamb of God, who gave His spotless life as a ransom Passover Lamb, to redeem and free everyone through faithful obedience to Him from Satan’s evil bondage and bring us into God’s Kingdom family and new life. In fact, the Apostle Paul in the New Testament draws a comparison between the Passover of the Exodus and the sacrifice of Christ Jesus our Lord, to be celebrated with sincerity and truth. In essence, Christ Jesus’s sacrificial death transformed the traditional annual Passover with reference to His own sacrificial death as the Passover Lamb of God.
The living Sovereign LORD God controls all the world by His mighty hand as the only true God and King of the nations. There is NO ONE like the LORD (also known as Yahweh or the Great I AM) in all the heavens and earth, as all the earth belongs to the LORD. Nothing is too hard for the God of the Hebrews - the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The living Sovereign LORD God as King of the Universe controls light and darkness, life and death, and all the forces of the heavens. The teachings of Exodus reveal why EVERYONE must humbly obey, submit, fear, and importantly wholeheartedly love the living Sovereign LORD God with their whole hearts, souls, and minds because He is God Almighty (El Shaddai) and He cares for His people. The God of the Hebrews is the Creator of everything, and He is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies (Sabaoth or the LORD of Hosts) as the Commander of all heavenly forces and powers. Although the living Sovereign LORD God is Almighty, He is also the God of mercy and grace, slow to anger, and filled with unfailing love, truth, and faithfulness.
Here is more Good News. The living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth has sent His Son Christ Jesus as the Redeemer and Liberator who sets all humanity free from Satan and his dark living through our faithful obedience to Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus is our Lord and Savior who delivers us from Satan’s bondage to sin and evildoing. Jesus is the LORD!
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