Today is the 30th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to gather together around the global campfire.

And just enter this place of peace and serenity and allow the scriptures to wash over us and into us. I am so grateful for this community and this place that we create each and every day.

And so let's do what we do every day, which is to take the next step forward together. We are pretty well enmeshed in the book of Exodus at this point.

And a showdown is happening. God is desiring to set his people free. A people that began with Abraham, Isaac, then Jacob, who was Israel, and then Israel had children, the children of Israel.

Joseph was one of those children who was taken into slavery in Egypt. But as things turned around, Joseph became second and command of all of Egypt, which brought the household to Egypt 70 people.

But now 400 years have passed and those 70 people have turned into a multitude, a great and mighty people that have made the Egyptians nervous.

And so they have enslaved the Israelites. And then we met Moses, and God calls Moses to go back to the land that he came from, the land of Egypt, and set his people free.

And there's been a lot of twists and turns along the way. And we've gone through them all. But that's where we are. Now Moses and Aaron are confronting Pharaoh regularly and plagues are descending upon the land.

And things have gotten beyond what the magicians of Egypt can replicate. And so now people are taking notice, like this is the finger of the Almighty God. This isn't a trick.

But Pharaoh is not convinced. And that's where we pick up the story. Exodus 10, verse 1, through 12, verse 13, today.

The Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants in order to display these things of mine before him.

And in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson, you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians, and about my signs that I displayed among them.

So that you may know that I am the Lord. So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,

This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews has said,

How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. They will cover the surface of the earth so that you will be unable to see the ground.

They will eat the remainder of what escapes, what is left over for you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you from the field.

They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfather's have seen since they have been in the land until this day.

Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Pharaoh's servants said to him,

How long will this man be a manist to us? Release the people so they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh and he said to them,

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