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How Did Moses Judge Egypt?

God had a controversy with Pharaoh.  Actually, it was a confrontation between Satan (who wanted to thwart God’s programme by keeping the Israelites back in Egypt by all means) and God (whose word would never pass away, even if it had to take four hundred years).  Pharaoh was Satan’s strong man.  Moses was God’s weapon of war in the confrontation.  And the battleground was Egypt.  God said to Moses, “See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh”  (Exodus 7:1).  That means a lot.  If Moses was a god over Pharaoh the king of Egypt, then he was god over all of Egypt.  Moses used the creative potentials of the earth and the seas, as a god directed by the Almighty God, against Pharaoh and the Egyptians.

Firstly, Moses turned the waters of the Nile and of the streams and the waters in the reservoirs, into blood, causing them to rebel against Egypt in solidarity with God and Israel.  To me, this is a lesson in spiritual warfare, on how we can plead the blood of Jesus into the ‘domains’ of water spirits, and so judge them as well as the people who serve them.

Secondly, Moses caused frogs to come up out of the waters of the Nile as well as from the other waters, and they invaded Egypt.

In other words, he caused the rivers to “bring forth” judgment upon Egypt.  The magicians of Egypt were not unaware of the negative version of those 'ministrations,' so they duplicated what Moses had done, and the earth and the waters heard them also.

Thirdly, Moses caused the earth to bring forth lice upon Egypt.  The dust of the earth was converted (by a bio-chemical or whatever process which belongs only to God) into lice.  But the magicians could not duplicate the ‘ministration’ this time, because it had gone far beyond their realm. The earth also would not listen to them anymore.  It was aligning with God to fight against them.  The fourth judgment involved swarms of flies which God sent into Egypt.  They must have filled the whole air.

By the fifth judgment, Moses, after conquering the earth and the seas and delivering them from the manipulation of the devil and his agents; after getting the support of the earth and the seas, decided to go higher to use other elements in the rest of the warfare.  The atmosphere produced a plague which selectively killed the livestock of the Egyptians, but not one animal in Goshen, where the Jews lived, died.

Sixthly, Moses took ashes from a furnace, gave instructions to the ashes as he himself had been instructed by God, then dispatched the ashes across the land by means of the ‘courier service’  (or‘speedpost’) of the air in the atmosphere.  The air carried the ashes over the land as directed, and converted them, probably, into  specialised microbes for causing boils.

By the seventh stage of the judgment, Moses had gone higher up again.  First, he started with the waters and the land, then went up to the air.  By the seventh judgment he had begun to appeal to the heavens, or the heavens had come into the battle of God against Egypt and Pharaoh their king.  Moses only needed to go outside and lift up his hands to the heavens, and the heavens got his message and released hails and lightning and thunder.  The heavens over Egypt rebelled against Egypt, and men and animals died.  Even plants were also judged.

For Judgment Number Eight, God asked Moses to stretch out his hand over the land.  He did.  And again an east wind from up in the atmosphere (the heavens) blew upon the land, and blew in locusts all the day and all the night, until it had had the land properly supplied with locusts of judgment.

The ninth judgment went farther in the atmosphere and even beyond to the sun in the high heavens.  The sun withdrew its supply of light from Egypt, and a blanket of very thick darkness hung over it.  Moses had conquered the land and the seas and the atmosphere and the heavens over Egypt, for God.  The waters, the dust of the earth, the ashes, the air, the wind, the sun, the frogs, the lice, the locusts - they all fought in God’s army under the special command of General Moses the soldier of the Lord and captain of the warring forces.  Only finally did God - not Moses - send demons (the angel of death) over the land, to kill all the first sons of the Egyptians, even the first son of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and so to inflict the final blow for the deliverance of Israel (Genesis 8-19).  When first sons, even of kings, begin to die, then God has come into the battle, and that might be the last of the plagues.

Generally, however, it would seem that Moses had been saying in judgment over Egypt, “Hear, O earth [the land and the seas, etc], and give ear, O heavens...!”