VIII. LOCUST PLAGUE [10:1-20] =
A. THE PLAGUE DESCRIBED:
1. The locust is perhaps nature’s most awesome example of the collective destructive power of a species. An adult locust weighs a maximum of two grams, and yet its combined destructive force can leave thousands of people in famine for years.
2. The locust plagues were very much feared in ancient Egypt. So much so that the peasants were in the habit of praying to the locust god. [Satan likes to keep superstitious peoples enslaved to his demonic hordes evil powers.]
3. No one who has ever seen the locust at work accuses the Bible of hyperbole. In 1926 and 1927, small swarms of the African migratory locusts were spotted in an area 50 by 120 miles on the plains of the river Niger near Timbuktu. The next year swarms invaded Senegal and Sierra Leone. By 1930 the whole of west Africa was flailing away at the pests with everything movable. But the locusts didn’t seem to notice; swarms reached Khartoum, more than 2,000 miles to the east of Timbuktu, then turned south, spreading across Ethiopia, Kenya, the Belgian Congo, and in 1932, striking into the lush farm land of Angola and Rhodesia. Before the plague finally sputtered out fourteen years after it began, it affected five-million square miles of Africa, an area nearly double the size of the United States . A locust is capable of eating its own weight daily. One square mile of a swarm will normally contain from 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 of the creatures. It is unusual, however, for such plagues to occupy an area of only one square mile. Swarms covering more than 400 square miles have been recorded.
B. THE REASON WHY: GOD alone can marshals his creatures to do His bidding.
IX. DARKNESS PLAGUE [10:21-29] =
A. THE PLAGUE DESCRIBED:
1. The darkness like in the deepest cave could be felt. All of Egypt instantly knew that the source of light was extinguished and for how long, no one knew. Only Israel had light in their dwelling places.
2. The heart of all Egyptian religion was the worship of the sun god, RA. The largest of all the ancient temples with over 100 miles of walls and gardens, was the Luxor Temple of AMUN RA the Sun god. This god had a wife MUT and son KHONS all were sacred and of the highest degree of worship. HATHOR was the goddess who controlled the sky. HORUS was the son of RA. ISIS and OSIRUS completed the sacred pantheon.
B. THE REASON WHY: GOD, who is light, struck the heart of all Egyptian religion- the worship of the sun god, RA. 1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. NKJV
1. Powerless were the legions of priests that overflowed the largest of all the ancient temples with miles of walls and gardens, was the Luxor Temple of AMUN RA the Sun god. RA and wife MUT and son KHONS all were sacred and of the highest degree of worship. None rose to defend their titles
HATHOR was the goddess who controlled the sky. HORUS was the son of RA. None could undo what GOD had done.
ISIS and OSIRUS who watched over the afterlife were watching in darkness.
GOD alone gives the true light to guide individuals to the way, truth and life. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. NKJV
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