everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast

with your host emma daughter thanks for joining today we're reading exodus eight and nine

and we're going to spend our time talking all about the plagues what was their purpose and why

were they significant so let's jump right in as today's reading

begins with the second plague. We read in Exodus 8 starting in verse 1. Then the Lord said to Moses,

go into Pharaoh and say to him, thus says the Lord, let my people go that they may serve me.

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, look, I will plague all your country

with frogs. The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom

and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people and into your ovens and

your kneading bowls. So like into literally your kitchen and your bedroom and everywhere in your

whole house, verse four, the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.

And the question we're asking is what was the purpose of the plagues and why were they

significant?

In short, the answer is that God used the plagues to remind and encourage Israel that he was still,

he is still and never stopped being God of their fathers.

For example, he is keeping his promises to Abraham.

But they also show the Egyptians that he is the

only God and that their gods are powerless. Let me say that again. God used the plagues to

remind and encourage Israel that he is still and never stopped being the God of their fathers.

But they also show the Egyptians that he is the only God

and that their Egyptian little G gods are powerless.

Back in Exodus 6, this is super important, back in Exodus 6,

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