I would just note as well, in verse 28, Pharaoh says, I will let you go.

Verse 34 tells us he did not let the people of Israel go, and that's immediately preceded by,

so the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and then it's followed by just as the Lord had spoken

through Moses. And it creates this impression that the Lord is the one who's telling the truth.

Pharaoh, he's ready to say, okay, I'm a sinner, but he's not really telling the truth.

He's the one speaking the lying words from 5'9.

Welcome to episode 24 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to you by Nine Marks. Nine Marks

exists to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building

healthy churches. For more, visit Nine Marks.org. My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two

long-lost friends. I haven't seen them in so long. Sam Amati, Jim Hamilton. Well, brothers, last

week we talked about the beginning of

God's extraction plan, the Exodus. We talked about how the Lord turned water into blood. And today

we're going to track the Exodus until nearly its conclusion. We're going to cover Exodus 8 through 10.

We'll cover the plagues of the frogs, the gnats and the flies, the boils, the

hail, and the locust. And then by the end of Exodus 10, it won't just be that Egypt's water

has turned to blood, but that all of Egypt is covered in a thick and inescapable darkness,

almost like they're in a grave. So Exodus 8 to 10, plagues 2 through 9. Here we go. So guys, though,

as we read through these chapters, which are pretty familiar, I think, to most Christians,

we will see a lot of recurring theme. So what high-level structural comments do you want to make

before we get into the nitty-gritty? Anything? Well, I'll just mention again something I mentioned at the end of the last episode, and that is in these first nine plagues, you have three sets of three. So the first plague, the fourth plague, and the seventh plague, you have Moses going in the morning to see Pharaoh. And then in the first set of three, the conflict is primarily described as a conflict between Aaron and the magicians.

So it's as if the lieutenants, you know, in these two armies are having conflict with each other.

And then the second set of three, the conflict is described primarily as between Moses and Pharaoh.

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