God tells Moses how that Pharaoh’s hard was hardened, then proceeded to instruct him on how to inflict the first plague. Many inanimate objects and animals were regarded as gods in the Egyptian nation. In the first plague, Moses was sent to turn the Nile River to blood, as well as all the water of the land. The Nile River was considered a god because it was responsible for the crops yielding a great harvest. Every year, the Nile would flood its banks and irrigate the fields on either side of the river. Therefore, they attributed god-like status to it. When God turned it to blood, he established His authority over the god of the harvest, the Nile River.
The second plague involved frogs. One of the main gods of Israel was Heqet, a goddess with the head and body of a frog. The frog symbolized life and fertility. Then, in the second plague, frogs began to multiply at an alarming rate and infiltrated homes and kitchens, and pots, etc., until they were absolutely everywhere. The very figure of fertility and life suddenly was a symbol of death, as the frogs died and began to fill all the places of residence in Egypt. They smelled horrible, and the stench nearly overwhelmed the residents of the country. The goddess of life has died and brought the smell of death to everyone.
What does all this mean? God was the true and only God. The gods of Egypt were false, and had no true power. The gods of Egypt held sway over Egyptians, but did not even want that sway or even know that it was theirs. It was the Egyptians who gave them that power. In the same way, we often give the false gods of this world sway over our lives and surrender our will to their unwitting influence. However, just as God showed His superiority over the gods of Egypt, we can know that God is truly superior to the gods of this world as well. Instead of giving our lives and souls to the gods that truly have no power, give your life to the one and only true God, Jehovah, Yahweh, the Creator and Sustainer of the Earth and of our souls!
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