IV. FLY PLAGUE [8:20-32] =
A. THE PLAGUE DESCRIBED: These were blood sucking, caused blindness, that were abhorred. They were related to VATCHIT, the god of flies. They were not in Goshen, that is a miracle.
B. THE REASON WHY: ONLY GOD CAN PROTECT FROM PESTILENCE. VATCHIT is false and powerless.
V. CATTLE PLAGUE [9:1-7] =
A. THE PLAGUE DESCRIBED:
1. Only the Egyptian cows were killed. They were significant to their worship [Davis, p. 121-22].
2. The god PTAH was sacred to the APIS bull, which was central to Egyptian worship. On November 13, 1856 Mariette found an underground avenue 1,120 feet long with 64 huge burial chambers. Each containing sarcophogi that were 12 feet long, 9 feet high and 6 feet wide. They were made of red and black granite and weighed over 60 tons each. HATHOR the goddess of love and beauty was depicted with bulls horns and a sun disk. The worship at Heliopolis used the sacred bull in Sun worship.
B. THE REASON WHY:
1. PTAH was hit to show the god behind that bull was only an impotent demon.
2. MNEVIS was hit to show that even the union of the sun god and the sacred APIS bull was powerless to keep the sacred bull on display at the Heliopolis alive!
3. HATHOR the goddess of love and beauty was powerless in the ugliness of death.
4. This plague was devastating to Pharaoh who had vast herds of cattle [Gen. 47:6, 17] The economy was so dependent on oxen for plowing and carts, cattle for milk and worship. Camels, donkeys and horses for transportation.
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