exodus 11

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
	11:2 Borrow=beg, jewels=article	`It seems that the Israelites were instructed to ask for the gold and the silver from the Egyptians. This is a very strange requests, and the fact that the Egyptians complied with their requests seem even more strange.
Why did the Egyptians comply with the request of jewels from the Israelites? Could it be that it was out of fear for them/Israelites.		11:3 It seems that the Egyptians complied more out of fear than anything else.

exodus 10

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
		9:1 vs 10:1
		10:7 The servants are now begging pharaoh to let the people go. The men begin to believe what Moses is saying. It must be out of fear that they make this request of pharaoh.
		10:8 Pharaoh seems to have softened a bit and is willing to make a compromise.
		10:14 vs rev 9
		10:16-17 It seems like pharaoh is getting to know God, but his actions defy his words. He only wants the trouble to pass.
What is the significance that the locusts are cast into the red sea and not the river nile.		It I very interesting that the locusts would be cast into the red sea.
		The darkness can be a rflection of the dark ages and when superstition crept intot he church. This does not seem to be the case.

exodus 9

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
		9:16 God knew the type of person that Pharaoh was/is and put him in power just so that God could have occasion to glorify his name in the Earth. Even the wicked serve their purpose in the Earth too. 10:1
Does pharaoh represent a type of Lucifer in the end?	Very good analogy, however needs more depth to confirm.	9:27 What a confession, which comes from Pharaohs lips!!
If Moses knows that pharaoh is mocking God and that his heart will be hardened and not let the people go, why did Moses still pray for him.	God already advised Moses of the sequence of events, Moses did not entreat the Lord on pharaohs behalf , but from instruction from the Lord. The whole thing was orchestrated by God. Pharaoh was being given enough time to repent, i.e. till the cup of his iniquity be filled.	9:30 Moses recognizes that Pharaoh is mocking God with his confession. Yet he entreated the Lord for him that the curse be lifted.

exodus 8

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
		It seems that God is requesting permission from pharaoh. God could have cut Pharaoh off from the first time the request came. But the Lord was so long suffering towards even pharaoh, that the argument should be settled, God gave pharaoh plenty of chances. Also this mercy display was for the reason that God could show His wonders in Egypt.
		8:7 Note that the magicians did so with their enchantments. Their brought frogs upon the land too. This was only trickery and it was not anything new or mysterious that they had done. All they did was to reproduce the same plague by trickery.
		The sad thing about this is that the people believed in the magicians when they duplicated the plagues. The people did not realize that the magicians were not doing anything spectacular.
		8;8-10 Note that Pharoah sends for Moses an Aaron to rid Egypt of the frogs. It had become unbearable to him.
		8:18 Dust in the land become lice. This must have been miserable, lice are blood sucking creatures.
		8:19 The magicians exclaim that this is the finger of God
Was the Land of Goshen troubled with the previous plagues?  Why is that in this plague the land f Goshen is mentioned specifically and it is not mentioned previously?		8:22 First mention of the Land of Goshen during the plagues. Swarm of flies.
What were the ten plagues of Egypt	1.     Water to blood 2.     Frogs 3.     Lice 4.     Flies 5.     Diseased lifestock 6.     boils 7.     fiery hail 8.     Locusts 9.     Darkness 10. Death of first born
		Pharaoh seems to make a compromise. He says the Israelites should sacrifice in Egypt. But Moses let him know that this is not pleasing to the Egyptians. As a matter of fact it is likely to cause the Egyptians to stone the Israelites.
		The rationale behind the pharaoh’s actions do not make sense. He says that he will let the people go, and as soon as the thing is removed, he returns to his old ways. No doubt pharaoh is being used as an example to the onlooking/unfallen eyes. As long as the punishment remains there will be remorse, but remove the punishment and the rebellion continues.

exodus 7

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
Why  is Moses referred to as a god.	Maybe this was as a result of the miracles that Moses performed before Pharaoh and the people that the people and pharaoh would now have respect for him.	7:1
		7:4 Note that God calls the plagues which fall upon Egypt armies and judgments
		7:5 Whatever took place in Egypt is as a direct result of what it took to convince the Egyptians that there is a God in heaven and He rules over the affairs of men.
		7:7 Aaron was only 3 years older than Moses. Consequently he just barely missed the mass execution of boy children that existed at the time of Moses’ birth.
		God preserves both Moses and Aaron to do his work
		7:11 magicians made their rods become like snakes too.

Egyptian Magicians, Snakes, and Rods

by	Kyle Butt, M.Div.

Most everyone who has ever read the biblical account of the ten plagues in Egypt cannot help but remember the scene in which Moses and Aaron threw down their rod that became a snake, and Pharoah’s magicians imitated the feat. The biblical account states:

And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments (Exodus 7:10-11).

In regard to this account, many have wondered how the magicians of Egyptian could have possessed the miraculous power to imitate the sign that God had given to Moses and Aaron. Did the magicians truly possess supernatural powers by which they could convince Pharaoh, or could there be some other explanations for the events that transpired with the rods? In regard to these questions, the biblical text does not definitively offer any conclusive answers. There are, however, other clues that seem to indicate that the Egyptian magicians used sleight-of-hand trickery devoid of supernatural ability.

Egyptians have long used the snake in their religious and ceremonial rituals. Many murals, ancient Egyptian paintings and carvings, and written texts portray this animal in connection with ancient Egyptian snake charmers, magicians, and even Pharaohs. In fact, many of the golden burial casts used to intern the ancient Egyptian kings have a sculpture of a snake coming from the forehead of the regal personality. Furthermore, the snake is commonly associated with certain gods of ancient Egypt. In regard to this affinity for the serpentine, the ancient Egyptians often used snakes in charming ceremonies and other practices. Due to this close association with the creature, they would certainly have become quite skilled at capturing, handling, and displaying snakes.

In their celebrated commentary series on the Old Testament, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown comment on the incident between Moses and Aaron and the Egyptian magicians:

The magicians of Egypt in modern times have long been celebrated adepts in charming serpents; and particularly by pressing the nape of the neck they throw them into a kind of catalepsy, which renders them stiff and immoveable, thus seeming to change them into a rod. They conceal the serpent about their person, and by acts of legerdemain produce it from their dress, stiff and straight as a rod. Just the same trick was played off by their ancient predecessors.... [A]nd so it appears they succeeded by their “enchantments” in practicing an illusion on the senses (2002, 1:295, Exodus 7:11-14).

http://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=11&article=1704