Day Eleven - Plague of Locust

God told us with the plague of hail that these were to display His power so that we would know He is God. Today we will be reminded that knowing involves telling.  Read the TRUE STORY of the Plague of Locusts in Exodus 10.

“Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the LORD."

“Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
'For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

• 'They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land.
• They will also eat the rest of what has escaped--what is left to you from the hail—
• and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.
• 'Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.' "

 “And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
 
“So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God! Who are the ones that are going?"

 Moses said, "We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."

Then he said to them, "Thus may the LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind. "Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desire." So they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.”
 

Pharaoh only pretended to repent

“Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left."

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they were very numerous. There had never been so many locusts, nor would there be so many again. For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened;

• and they ate every plant of the land and
• all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left.
• Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.”

“Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. "Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the LORD your God, that He would only remove this death from me." 
“He went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the LORD. So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.”

FALSE gOD – IDOL of the Egyptians: The wind was one of the deities and they worshiped Osiris the god of crops.

God’s power was displayed SO THAT YOU MAY TELL:

Psalm 48 “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the great King. God, in her palaces, Has made Himself known as a stronghold. For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. They saw it, then they were amazed; they were terrified, they fled in alarm. Panic seized them there, anguish, as of a woman in childbirth. With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish her forever. Selah. We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.
As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness. Let Mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your judgments.
Walk about Zion and go around her; Count her towers; Consider her ramparts; Go through her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation. For such is God, Our God forever and ever; He will guide us until death.
 
I Chronicles 16:15-16 Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac.

Psalm 105:8 “He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations.”

Teaching Points:
 1. God allows – so that we may TELL
 2. Judgment causes us to TELL
 3. Goodness causes us to TELL
 4. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart – for HIS GLORY

Prayer:  May we TELL the next generation the great things God has done. 
Song: Great is the Lord