Exodus 7:11 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 7:11

9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ^a‘Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ^b‘Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ”

10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just ^aas the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it ^bbecame a serpent.

11 But Pharaoh also ^acalled the wise men and ^bthe sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also ^cdid in like manner with their enchantments.

12 For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

13 And Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said.

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Exodus 7:11

God sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and God gifted His servants so they could perform certain miraculous works to show that He was backing them up. But Pharoah’s magicians were able to replicate some of those works as well (Exodus 7:11; 22-23; 8:7). Thus, because Pharoah had an alternative explanation for the miracles, he concluded that there was nothing special about what Moses did. The knowledge that something could be done apart from Moses’ God meant that God’s outworking was not the only possibility. Therefore, the warnings through Moses were hollow to Pharaoh.

Excerpted from The Time of Jacob's Trouble

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