The Ten Plagues The First Plague: The Plague of Blood

 The Ten Plagues

The First Plague: The Plague of Blood

 

Opening Remarks:

Good morning church family. I am excited to be here with you this morning because we are starting a new sermon series. It is entitled “The Ten Plagues” and today we will be examining the first plague, the plague of blood. 

Blood. I don’t want to be to crass this morning. I don’t want to be gross but the Bible is a very bloody book. The book is soaked in blood. From the very earliest parts of Genesis we see the necessary component of blood. Think about it. Cain killed his brother Abel. When Adam and Eve willingly chose sin, they are provided garments made of animal skin to cover their nakedness. Blood was spilt in the very Garden of Eden to cover humanity’s sin. Not long after that event, in Genesis 4 we discover that it was Abel’s blood crying out from the ground in conviction of Cain’s murder. Of course in Exodus we have the plague of blood. We will cover that in just a moment. The Israelites at the time of Passover were also instructed to paint the door posts with blood foreshadowing the very sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In fact, animal sacrifice, the shedding of animal blood for atonement of sin would become a feature part of Judaism.  

If you fast forward to the New Testament, you will see the presence of blood. What about in Luke 8? You have the story of the women who had been bleeding for 12 years. She is miraculously healed by Jesus. What about Mark 5? That is the story of the demon possessed man who lived among the tombs. The demon compelled him to cut himself, shedding his blood. Then we come to the story of Saul, better known as the Apostle Paul. Remember him? He persecuted the early church. Before his conversion, you might say that he was “bloodthirsty”. You cannot think of blood without thinking of our Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19 all recall the true story of Jesus’ death. Luke’s Gospel in particular draws our attention to the blood of Jesus Christ being shed on the cross. Every time we gather for communion, we talk about blood. Jesus’ blood. The Amplified Bible captures Hebrews 9:22 statement about blood, “In fact under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness [neither release from sin and its guilt, nor cancellation of the merited punishment]”. Brothers and sisters, if the Bible were a sponge, it would be soaked in blood. Get this, the word “blood” is mentioned 447 times and is in 375 verses. 

Blood is symbolic of two things in the Bible: life and judgment. Go back to Jesus. I Corinthians 11 reminds us that Jesus shed His blood so that we could be granted grace, mercy and forgiveness. His blood gives us life. Enteral life. Buy why did He shed His blood? He shed His blood to satisfy His Father’s wrath and righteous judgment. His death on the cross was a substitute for our death. His blood was a substitute for our blood. Theologians call this substitutionary atonement. 

This morning, when we read about the plague of blood, keep that in mind. Frame this plague in the knowledge of life and judgment. Blood would set the Israelites free and blood would be sent as judgement to the Egyptians and more specifically Pharaoh. 

“So, these plague, these 10 plagues you are speaking about, weren’t these just natural disasters? Can’t they be explained by science?”

You might be asking that this morning. Maybe you are a skeptic? Let’s address the elephant in the room. 

I want to start this morning by telling you about an experience I had the other day. I was watching the news with my son Jack. Jack had already heard of the story and he said, “Daddy, you won’t believe this next story, it’s absolutely crazy”. He was not wrong. In fact I had never seen anything like it. It was like a modern day plague. 

How many of you have heard of Elko, Nevada? Yeah, me neither! Elko, Nevada is the home to the latest natural, albeit weird disaster. No Elko was not destroyed by Tornado. No Elko residents have not had to endure searing heat. No Elko, Nevada has not been overcome by a wave of tumbleweeds. Get this, Elko, Nevada has been overwhelmed by an alarming amount of Cannibal Crickets. It is about the closest thing to a real life horror scenario that you will find. It is a story straight from the movies. The Mormon Cricket, also known as Anabrus simplex, is a large flightless, reddish and black insect native to the Western half of North America. These are some whopper insects by the way. They grow up to four inches in length. They look more like locusts than crickets. One of the reporters covering the crickets actually stated, “It’s almost like a Biblical plague”. The crickets cover the streets, they cover the buildings, they pour out of pipes, and have even caused cars to hydroplane. As the cars drive over them, they are squished, and the tires slip on the massive amount of cricket goop. Don’t even get me going on the smell. Residents say that the smell of trillions of crickets is astonishing. 

You might be thinking, why don’t the residents just kill the little invaders? It’s not that simple. You see the Mormon Crickets are also known by another name, Cannibal Crickets. If you kill the crickets, more crickets show up because one of their favorite foods is…well…each other. That’s right, they feast on their dead counterparts which just exacerbates the situation. It really does feel like a plague of Biblical proportion. 

When I look around our current landscape, when I survey the United States, I see calamities, catastrophes, and carnage. There are greater, more chaotic disasters plaguing the US than Cannibal Crickets in Elko, Nevada.  Just this week, the United States of America has endured heat waves in Texas, excessive fires in Colorado, flooding in Oklahoma, tornados breaking out across the Southeast, and 3 tropical storms churning in the Atlantic. When we experience these issues, we don’t call them plagues, we call them disasters. Natural disasters. Acts of God. Disasters are something that happen regularly, they are predictable, we have even come to expect them. If you have been living in Daphne for a while you get pretty familiar with the weather pattern. You wake up to a beautiful morning. Hot but beautiful. Then about 3 p.m. you can feel a change in the air. Clouds begin to accumulate to the west and they move eastward. All the heat in the atmosphere begins to mix with the warm air from Mobile Bay and it creates an unstable atmosphere. You can see the clouds coming across the bay and you smell the rain. The bottom falls out and we will get an inch or maybe two of precipitation. In Alabama alone we throw around phrases like “tornado season” or “hurricane season”. We know particular times the year where sudden, swift, and severe weather comes upon us. 

The plagues of the Old Testament were different. They were supernatural. First of all, the plagues only affected the Egyptians, not the people of God. Strangely enough, the Israelites were even living among the Egyptians, but they remained unaffected. The plagues appeared on command and dissipated at an exact moment in time. All of the plagues happened just as Moses had commanded, not as Moses had predicted. The threat of the plagues came at the behest of Moses. He told the Pharaoh that he wanted the King to allow his people to enter the desert so that they may worship Yahweh. The Pharaoh declined, hard heartedly I might add, and the plagues came upon the whole land. Two things here to remember, the plagues ended when the Pharaoh finally relented and let the Israelites leave. Weather is not affected by the sudden migration of people. Likewise, Egypt is a massive country. It is 386,900 square miles. It is one of the largest countries in all of Africa, the 30th largest country in the world. The plagues swept across the entire country, all 386,900 square miles of it. Weather is localized, some times regional, but never national. A weather pattern or disaster would only affect a portion of Egypt, not the entire land mass. 

You see friends some people have tried to explain away the plagues. They have tried to prove the plagues through scientific study. Even theologians have maintained that the plagues were not supernatural in nature but “hyper natural miracles”. This means that God used natural law and phenomena in an extraordinary way: timing, location, magnitude, and selectivity, to bring about His will. God essentially uses His power to manipulate the forces of nature. For instance they will say that the plague of blood was the sudden formation of toxic red algae that killed the fish and spoiled the river. That would certainly make sense if the Nile was the only body of water affected. However, Scripture says that all the water in the land was spoiled, turned to blood. All of it. Again I will come back to that. But seriously, how do explain that? How do you explain by science that all of the water in the land spoiled with the exception of the water that the Hebrews drank? No no friends, I worship the God of the Universes who calls in command all the forces of nature. He supersedes the laws of nature and recalculates the laws of physics to accomplish His goals. I worship the God who created everything we know and everything that we do not know in 6 literal 24 hour days by His divine fiat, His supernatural spoken word. I worship the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God.  No friends, there was nothing normal, nothing natural about these plagues.

If you are not read up on the plagues, maybe you have no idea what I am even talking about this morning, then the next 10 weeks will be very informative for you. If you are familiar with the plagues, my prayer is that the next 10 weeks will be revealing for you. I hope that you will learn something new. I pray that you will learn something beneficial to your spiritual growth in Christ. 

Take a moment and fill out our “Today’s Thought”, the plagues of Egypt provide proof of God’s power. 

Gracious friends, when you really stop to think about the awesome wonder and the extraordinary aspects of these 10 plagues, you will be awestruck in the presence of God’s magnitude, His majesty, and His magnificence. You will be dumbfounded by His power. 

Pastor John MacArthur commented on God’s power in the historical truth of the plague of blood. Listen to what he says, 

"The Lord chose to begin with the Nile because it was the lifeblood of Egypt, and its waters nourished the crops that sustained the people. By turning the water into blood, God was demonstrating His absolute power and control over all of creation." 

Before we jump into our three points, let me set up the scene for you. 

Exodus is the story of the birth of Moses. It is the story of how he is saved from the Egyptians by his mother. God orchestrated for him to be rescued by the very nation that was trying to put him and other infant Israelite males to death. The Israelites had been held in captivity in Egypt for 430 years and even though they were slaves, they were numerous. The Jews numbered in the millions and this threatened their captors. Moses, although a Hebrew, grew up as a Prince of Egypt. He was reared as a prince, educated as a prince, but nevertheless identified as a Hebrew. He witnessed an Egyptian captor abusing a fellow Hebrew and Moses secretly murdered the man for his mistreatment. Moses is eventually found out and flees Egypt. He eventually settles Midian and even marries a woman named Zipporah. He casts aside his royal education and takes the job of a shepherd. To make a long story short, he encounters a burning bush, the presence of the Living God, and he is instructed to go back to Egypt. Moses is to be God’s instrument, His mouthpiece to the Pharaoh. His instructions are simple, go to the Pharaoh and tell him to set the Hebrews free. After some hemming and hawing, Moses does as he is told. Pharaoh disregards Moses and does not listen to God’s messenger. That is when we come to Exodus 7. God is going to break pestilence and plagues to the land of Egypt. He does this to demonstrate His mighty judgment over Egypt and the Pharaoh and He does this to show His unrelenting love for the Israelites. In this chapter, we will read about the first plague, the plague of blood. 

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Today’s Thought:

The Plagues of Egypt Provide Proof of God’s Power!

Today’s Quote:

"The Lord chose to begin with the Nile because it was the lifeblood of Egypt, and its waters nourished the crops that sustained the people. By turning the water into blood, God was demonstrating His absolute power and control over all of creation." 

-Pastor John MacArthur

Today’s Scripture:

Exodus 7:14-25 ESV

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. [15] Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. [16] And you shall say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness." But so far, you have not obeyed. [17] Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. [18] The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile."'" [19] And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'" [20] Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. [21] And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. [22] But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. [23] Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. [24] And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile. [25] Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.

God Delivered Pharaoh 3 Lessons With The First Plague…

Lesson One: The God of Israel Is Phenomenal vs. 16 and 17

God delivered the Pharaoh three lessons with the first plague. His first lesson was this, the God of Israel is phenomenal. Let’s read verses 16 and 17 again,

[16] And you shall say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness." But so far, you have not obeyed. [17] Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. 

So, let’s think for a moment, God instructs Moses to strike the water that is in the Nile and the water will turn to blood. If you were to keep reading, it would not just be the water in the Nile that would be affected. Verses 19 and 20 tell us that the rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water would turn to blood. 

Every body of running or standing water, no matter the depth and no matter the width would suddenly, inextricably be transformed to blood. This would not be the last time that water is transformed into a completely different substance. Jesus, oddly enough in His very first miracle captured in John 2, transforms the water at the wedding feast to wine. Wine as you know is Biblically symbolic of blood. That is an interesting connection to this story. 

Again, scientist and theologians alike have tried to explain away this supernatural plague by assigning it a natural origin. They have said that this was actually not supernatural at all. This plague is simply explained. The water was infected by a toxic algae. They call it a “red tide”. An algae bloom that is red in color. 

Again, let me explain to you why this is not just improbable but impossible. First of all the water did not just turn to red water. The water turned to blood. Not bloody water. Not water mixed with a little blood. Not water that had the distinct look of blood. No friend. WHEN MOSES’ STAFF STRUCK THE WATER, THE WATER BECAME BLOOD. The water was mysteriously transformed into A, B, AB and O water. Trust me, the Egyptians were not stupid. These are the same people that built the great pyramids, constructed the Sphinx, had a complex religious systems, invented mathematics, geometry, surveying, and metallurgy. They were skilled astronomers. They developed accounting. They were the first civilization to write on paper. They developed medicines, used the ramp, the lever, watered their crops through irrigation and even created the calendar. These people knew the difference between red water and blood. When Scripture says that the water turned to blood, it turned to blood. Scripture even tells us that the odor in the land was pervasive. Imagine the smell of hot pools of blood baking in the African sun. Wowzers I bet it did smell to high heaven. 

Another reason this is not just improbable but impossible is because the scope of the plague. The Nile was not the only body of water affected. All the water in Egypt turned to blood. Rivers became blood. Canals. Ponds. Pools. All of it became blood. How does red tide blooming in the Nile explain all the water in the land turning to blood? Another reason this plague is extraordinary and supernatural is that it happened on command and ended suddenly at the start of the next plague. It lasted exactly seven days. 

Brothers and sisters, when God calls Moses to serve as His prophet to Pharaoh, God says something really unusual. After he calls Moses to go, God reveals to Moses how the conversation with the Pharaoh is going to unfold, 

Exodus 3:19-20 ESV

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. [20] So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.

This plague of blood is the first of many wonders that God reveals to the Hebrews, to Moses, and to the Pharaoh. 

Do you believe that our God is a God of wonders? A God of power. A God capable of performing the phenomenal? I believe in a big God. I believe in a God that can set people free from fear, from worry, for anxiety. I believe in a God who can destroy addiction. I believe in a God who can restore marriages, mend broken relationships. I believe in a God that can bring the prodigal home. I believe in a God that can reorient our desires. I believe in a God that can turn our hearts from sin. I believe in a Savior that can set the sinner free. He can make the mute to sing His praises. He can bring sight to the blind. He can bring sound to the deaf. He can cancel cancer. He can cure mental illness and spiritual anguish. He can fill what is empty. He can give peace to the restless. 

But how Stuart? How can I see this God? 

Well, how did Moses see Him? He commanded Moses to strike the water and Moses obeyed. Put yourself in Moses’ shoes. Do you think that Moses was like, “you want me to do what here Lord”? Did it make sense for Moses to strike the water? Not really. Scripture does not give us any reason to believe that Moses knew what was going to happen. He had no idea that striking the water would turn it into blood. God told him to do something strange but he did it and look what he saw. He witnessed God doing phenomenal wonders. 

Deuteronomy 26:8 KJV

And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders…

Exodus 15:11 KJV

Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Psalm 19:1 CEV 

The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what he has done. 

Psalm 65:8 NIV 

The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. 

Psalm 34:9-10 TPT 

Worship in awe and wonder, all you who've been made holy!

Psalm 145:3 ESV
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Lesson Two: The Egyptian gods Were Powerless vs. 18-20

In the plague of the blood, the Pharaoh learns his first lesson. The God of Israel is phenomenal. His second lesson was that the Egyptian gods were powerless. When Moses struck the water of the Nile, all the water in the land turned to blood. This instantly killed every living thing that required water to live. The fish died. Imagine how much livestock perished because farmers had no water to hydrate them. Imagine how many crops perished because they would not receive water. 

Remember brothers and sisters, the Nile was all but a god to the Egyptians. They literally worshipped the Nile. They sang songs about the Nile, they named their children after it, and wrote poetry about the mighty river. They even created gods to keep the Nile fertile and to protect the Nile. The people even prayed to the Nile. 

The god of the Nile was Hapi. Hapi was a powerful Egyptian god who personified the annual flooding of the Nile. The Egyptians believed that the Nile was a gift to them given by the gods. There were also other gods associated with the Nile. Gods like Osirus. Osirus was the god of fertility. The Nile was rich in fish so the Egyptians would have prayed to him to keep the Nile filled with fish. Then there was Horus. Horus was the god of healing and protection. The people would pray to him to and thank him for the protection that the Nile provided to them. They also believed that the Nile had healing properties. Family members would bring their sick relatives to the waters because they believed that a baptism in the Nile could heal their infirmities. 

When God turned their beloved Nile to blood, God removed the power of their most powerful God. The Nile and the Egyptian gods were not longer fertile, no longer protective, no longer healing. When the plague struck the Nile, God quite literally struck at the heart of their religious systems. 

The people would have prayed to their false gods hoping that the Nile would have been restored only to discover that their gods were not listening.  A new God, a real God had moved in and His name is I Am That I Am, Yahwah, Jehovah, The Tetragrammaton Himself had placed His foot on the false idols of the Egyptians. 

There is a comical part of this story. It comes in verse 22. 

“But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.”

So the Pharaoh goes to his masters of the mystic arts and tells them to replicate the plague that Moses had performed. Through what could only be done through demonic powers and prowess, these charlatans replicate the miracle. They turn water into blood. 

So in order to make himself feel better, the Pharaoh instructs his magicians to give him more of what he already has…blood. You would think that he would have asked his magicians to turn blood back to water. Nope! The Pharaoh just gets more of what he asks for…blood. 

Isn’t that just the problem with sin. There is quote that I have heard a thousand times and it goes like this, “sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”

Brothers and sisters, our little “g” gods have no power. They cannot give us peace. They cannot bestow upon us happiness, joy or fulfillment. They may make us feel better temporarily but in the end, they just leave us with more of what we don’t really want. Did the Pharaoh need more blood? Of course not. He needed water but he got more blood. That is the problem with humanity. We think we are so smart. We think we know what we need. We are slaves to ourselves. Choosing to be our own gods. Challenging God and shaking our fist at Him telling Him that we know better. Our culture better watch out because we are doing the same thing today. We better watch out because plagues will come. Pestilence will come knocking on our door. 

This truth reminds me of Psalm 135, 

Psalm 135:15-17 ESV

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

Lesson Three: The Egyptian People Were Punished vs. 21, 24-25

The Pharaoh learned three lessons. The God of the Israelites is phenomenal. The gods of the Egyptians are powerless. Lastly he learned that the Egyptian people were punished. Wait a second preacher. It was the Pharaoh who was making the decisions, why were the Egyptians punished. They were innocent. 

Maybe, maybe not. 

Know this, the Pharaoh did not care about his people. He was not just hard hearted towards God. He was also hard hearted towards people in general. He was a selfish, self centered man. That is what disobedience does to you. It makes you think that you are smarter than you. It makes you think that you are more capable that you are. Stronger that you are. Wiser than you are. 

For the record, the plague of blood was a plague of the Egyptians and not of the Israelites. How do I know this to be true? 

Exodus 7:24 ESV

And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

The Egyptians had to dig. It does not say that the Israelites had to dig. I firmly believe that God provided for the Israelites. Either their water was not affected or He provided for them water to drink. God always provides for His people when they are obedient to them. He gave them mannah in the dessert, quail from the skies, and water from the rock. God’s people are always protected. God’s people are always provided for. 

Still, I want you to know that the plagues are not just against Egypt, they are also for Egypt. Huh? That’s right, I want you to know that the plagues of Egypt were actually an amazing act of love for the Egyptian people. Remember, the Egyptians were pagans. I would dare say that none of them had never heard of Yahweh. If they had heard of Him, He was the god of the people that were their slaves. Why in the world would they worship a God of slaves? Yahweh was a punch line to the Egyptian people. Jehovah was not a God to take seriously. 

That is what they thought until the plagues. While the Egyptian people suffered through plagues, some had their eyes and hearts open to the one true God. That’s right, through the plagues some of the Egyptians embraced Yahweh as their God, supplanting their false Egyptian gods. Before each plague, God warned the people of Egypt, giving them an opportunity to be saved, rescued. At the end of all the plagues, it was not just the Hebrews that were saved, but also the Egyptians who called upon the name of the Lord, who were covered in the blood of the sacrifice, and who escaped into the homes of the Israelites. 

Scripture tells us that the Pharoah was hard hearted. It even says that God made his heart to be hard. What does that mean? It means that God allowed Pharoah’s heart to travel down a road that it was already traveling. He allowed the Pharoah to travel that road without intervention, without conviction. Modern day Christians would say that God turned Pharoah over to himself. 

We see this demonstrated in our culture today. We are all slogging our way through the evil, the humanistic and decadent days of Pride month. We have all seen the news stories, the headlines, and read the articles about the perverted parades, the drag queen story hours, the gender bending trans movement that is more transgressive than transformative. The Pride movement has hijacked the rainbow and perverted it from God’s promise in Genesis to not destroy the world with water to a lifestyle of prideful living and limitless lust. They have also hijacked the word transform. There is only one way to lived as a transformed individual, to live in accordance with God’s Word, sacrificing self, and conforming to the image of Christ. Transformation today means reconstructing and retooling one’s body. Men can be women and women can be men. There are an infinite number of genders and sex is now malleable, a mutation that can change moment by moment. It is absolute utter madness at the highest level. The claim by the LGBTIA+ community is that their desire to live in this way does not affect me. It does not affect you. That is a lie. Human procreation is being assaulted. The Biblical family is being assaulted. Churches across America are being assaulted. This evil ideology is being taught to the youngest in our community and these pornographic ideals are being forced on the youngest minds. Men in this church, in this very church are battling horrible pornography addictions, it is affecting their marriages, damaging their wives and is creating callous behavior in their children. What is it to you that I live this way? It doesn’t affect you? 

Im sure that is what Pharoah thought? I’ll say “no” to Moses.” Who cares?” “It won’t hurt anyone for me to be disobedient and call myself a god. “

His people were punished and he would eventually come around to God’s way of thinking. I believe that God is calling our nation to repentance. He is calling us to turn form our wickedness, to call upon the name of the Lord, and to weep over our sin. God is warning us, giving us a chance to repent, to turn, to come back to him. 

It is not to late. Like I said earlier, blood can either be a sign of judgement or a sign of love. What will it be for you today?

James 1:14-15 ESV
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Allow Pharaoh’s Error To Be Your Education!