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Against All the Gods of Egypt

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Introduction
  • Exodus 12:12
  • The plagues were specifically directed against the gods of Egypt, to show God’s power over them.
  • Moses and the Gods of Egypt by John J. Davis
  • The Egyptians had somewhere around 80 gods. Pharaoh himself was considered deity.
  • Exodus 7:5 – It was important that the Egyptians would know about God and not just Israel.
  • Exodus 8:19; 9:20; 18:11
  • Numbers 33:4 – God had executed judgment on the Egyptian gods.
    • The ten plagues
    1st plague – water to blood
    • Exodus 7:17
    • Egyptian gods:
      • Hapi – god of fertility
      • Khnum – guardian of the Nile sources
      • Osiris – god of the underworld
      • Hymn to the Nile
        • 2nd plague – frogs
        • Exodus 8:3
        • Egyptian gods:
          • Frogs themselves were deified.
          • Heqt – frog-headed goddess
            • 3rd plague – gnats (lice)
            • Exodus 8:16-18
            • Egyptian gods:
              • Set – god of the desert
              • Priests – physical purity ruined
                • 4th plague – flies
                • Egyptian gods:
                  • Uatchit – associated with one type of fly
                    • 5th plague – death of livestock
                    • Egyptian gods:
                      • Cows were sacred
                      • Hathor – goddess represented by cow
                      • Apis bull – sacred bull – god Ptah
                      • Mnevis – sacred bull – god Ra
                        • 6th plague – boils
                        • Exodus 9:8-12
                        • Egyptian gods:
                          • Sekhmet – goddess of epidemics
                          • Sunu
                          • Serapis
                          • Imhotep
                            • 7th plague – hail with fire
                            • Exodus 9:24
                            • Egyptian gods:
                              • Nut and Hathor
                                • 8th plague – locusts
                                • Exodus 10:15
                                • Egyptian gods:
                                  • Isis and Seth – gods of crops
                                    • 9th plague – darkness
                                    • Exodus 10:22
                                    • Egyptian gods:
                                      • Ra – god of sun, king of gods
                                      • Horus – another important sun god
                                      • Aten – the deified sun disc
                                      • Atum – god of the setting sun
                                      • Nut and Hathor – goddesses of the sky
                                      • Thoth – god of the moon
                                      • A universalist hymn to the sun
                                        • 10th plague – death of firstborn (people and cattle)
                                        • Exodus 12:29-32
                                        • Egyptian gods:
                                          • Pharaoh – son of Ra
                                          • Pharaoh’s son – born of the gods
                                          • Anubis
                                          • Min – god of procreation
                                          • Isis
                                          • Hathor
                                          • Apis bull – sacred, firstborn animal
                                            • Application
                                            Do I give God the honor He deserves?
                                            • Exodus 20:1-6
                                            • God must be my priority!
                                              • Do I truly repent, or fake it?
                                              • Exodus 8:8, 13-15
                                              • Six times Pharaoh quickly turned back to his ways when the immediate panic was over.
                                              • Do I forget God when times are good?
                                                • Have I accepted the salvation God offers?
                                                • Exodus 8:22-23; 12:7, 12-13; I Corinthians 5:7; Romans 5:8-9
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