Lenten devotions: Exodus 7
(please read the chapter before reading this devotion).
The chapter
begins with the visitation of pharaoh by Moses and Aaron. It is [almost] the
last attempt to “make peace” with the royalty. Instead of a decent conversation,
the pharaoh set his sorcerers, magi etc. on Moses and Aaron. Aaron single-handedly
wins the battle.
Then time
comes for the first plague. This plague is deeply symbolic in nature – the water
[of Nile] turns into blood. Modern scholarship is full of theories, trying to come
up with an environmental explanation of the event. They will all fail, because
the event had super-natural background.
