An Egyptian View of the Plauges (week of March 28, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Kerry helps us understand the plagues from an Egyptian point of view, which helps us better understand the message God was sending.
We are grateful to our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and our editor, Kaleb Muhlestein, and to Rich Nicholls for composing and playing the music.
My editor tells me that due to not having my sound equipment with me in Egypt that my mic cuts out a few times, and that I said that they saved Seth when I meant they saved Osiris. I apologize.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Podcasts where we talk about things that have made the scriptures become very real to us because we believe there's a lot of power in the scriptures. |
| 0:27.6 | And as they become more real to us, we can draw on that power more intimately to apply them to our lives more. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein. |
| 0:36.2 | And this is a shortcast. Today I'm coming to you from Egypt. We're talking about things that happen in Egypt.. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and this is a short cast. Today, I'm coming to you |
| 0:38.9 | from Egypt. We're talking about things that happened in Egypt, and I'm in Giza right across the street |
| 0:44.0 | from the Great Pyramids right now, so it seemed like a good time to talk about that. And today, |
| 0:48.9 | we're going to talk about the plagues. And I believe that the plagues were set up in a way that God set them up in a way that |
| 0:58.1 | would symbolically speak to not only the Israel, but people all over the ancient Near East. |
| 1:05.7 | We've said a number of times that God speaks to people in the language they're expecting. And since these people expected |
| 1:13.2 | symbolic action, he used that. So I think he spoke using symbolic action by setting up a kind of |
| 1:19.5 | a showdown, really, that would teach things to them. And I think that the plagues are really set |
| 1:26.3 | as a divine conflict, a contest between Jehovah and Pharaoh, |
| 1:30.4 | Pharaoh who is thought of as being semi-divine and representing the gods of Egypt, but this is a contest between Jehovah and Pharaoh. |
| 1:36.7 | So, for example, the Lord says specifically, I will get glory through Pharaoh. |
| 1:44.1 | Or a little later he says, see what I will get glory through Pharaoh. |
| 1:48.3 | Or a little later, he says, see what I will do to Pharaoh. |
| 1:54.8 | Or in the Song of the Sea, which is the great song that is in, or sorry, Exodus 15, he twice talks about how he has done this to Pharaoh. |
| 1:58.0 | He's cast Pharaoh into the sea, or he's cast Pharaoh and his chariots into the sea. |
| 2:02.7 | So he's very specific about setting this up as a contest with Pharaoh. And in Exodus 9, verse 16, |
| 2:10.3 | he says it this way. And in very deed, for this cause, if I raised thee, meaning Pharaoh, so for this cause I may raise you up Pharaoh, |
| 2:19.4 | for to show in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. |
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