Exodus 7:1-4 And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
* Great judgments: (Exodus 7-11)
- rivers turned into blood
- lice throughout the land
- swarms of flies
- a very grievous murrain (plague) upon the beasts of the field, the cattle, horses, asses, camels, oxen and the sheep
- boils upon man and beast
- hail, very grievous
- locust
- darkness, very thick
- killing of firstborn of man and beasts
- rivers turned into blood
- lice throughout the land
- swarms of flies
- a very grievous murrain (plague) upon the beasts of the field, the cattle, horses, asses, camels, oxen and the sheep
- boils upon man and beast
- hail, very grievous
- locust
- darkness, very thick
- killing of firstborn of man and beasts
And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
And Moses was fourscore years old (80-years-old), and Aaron fourscore and three years old (83-years-old), when they spake unto Pharaoh.
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And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
And HE (God) hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
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Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
Exodus 7:19 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Notice that, in this instance, God told Moses to tell Aaron to do this. God did not speak directly to Aaron.
I've had times that God led me to tell an individual something and that individual refused what I said and that individual said "God" didn't tell her that. In one case, I told a woman in our church group that I felt she was called by God as a prophet. She frequently had a "word of knowledge" which I thought to be from God. This woman greatly fought me on this subject. And I kept telling her that when she had these words of knowledge, impressions, she should share them with our church group. But she rarely shared such. Finally she struck out against me and is no longer with our group.
In another instance, a Baptist woman told me the story of the first time she saw her husband. She said she knew she was going to marry him though she had never met him and didn't even know his name. I said to her, "that was a word of knowledge" from God. She seemed shocked and horrified at this concept. I don't know why it seemed so repulsive to her unless she had heard some teaching against the gifts of the Holy Spirit at the church she had attended.
When I owned my business in the 1970's, a man from our church group came to me. He brought a message telling me I was "dragging my feet" concerning closing my business and going into the ministry. Very shortly after this message from this man who said he was a prophet, I did close my business to go into the ministry, although I had no where to go in the ministry. I just waited at my apartment for the next six-months. Then on January 10, 1980, I was asleep in the night and a very loud trumpet-like sound blew three words into my ear: "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS" Within a week, I was broadcasting exhortations for the church on radio station KWJS. Within a year, I was on radio from Hartford to Seattle with approximately 15-radio stations in cities between these.
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Pam Padgett attended a non-denominational church after God moved her out of the Catholic Church. One Sunday morning, as she sat in the church service, God spoke the following to Pam.
"What are you doing here? I told you to get out. Now get out."
Pam was stunned by this and she asked God to confirm to her that this was God speaking this to her.
Over the next few days it was confirmed to her satisfaction, that this was God speaking to her.
Then Pam asked God when HE had previously told her to leave that church group, and was reminded of the "poison gas" dream which I had shared and exhortations for us to leave corrupt churches.
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The poison gas dream: 1979
In this dream, I was in a room where a meeting was going on. A man was speaking to a group of people. I went into the room and sat down and began to listen to that which this man was speaking.
Another man came into the room and said: "Stop ... wait ... can't you see? ... It's too late ... It's already begun."
(He disappeared and the first man continued speaking,)
No one in the room paid any attention to that which this man said, except for me. I wanted to see what had "already begun" so I looked out the window.
I saw a tall pole with a yellow civil-defense type speaker on top of the pole. A gas that I knew to be poisonous was coming out of that speaker. And the gas was coming straight toward those of us who were sitting in that room.
I was very shocked. The device which was placed there to warn us was the instrument that was being used to gas us to death and kill us.
I looked at the man who was sitting next to me. He had a big smile on his face and was looking attentively at the man who was speaking to the group of people. But then I saw it: This man was a corpse. He was already dead.
I looked around the room at the other people and they were also dead.
And as I sat there listening to the man who was speaking, I began to feel drowsy. I knew the gas was reaching me and that it was going to kill me also if I continued sitting there listening to this speaker.
After that dream, I was very disturbed. I didn't know what that dream meant.
On a Wednesday night in 1982, I was sitting at the church I attended and was listening to the pastor as he spoke to the people.
I glanced at the man who was sitting next to me. And I saw immediately that this was the man in the poison gas dream who was dead. I looked at the other people in the congregation and felt they were the dead people in the dream.
I got up immediately and went to the ladies room and began praying.
I said to God: "I think YOU are showing me to leave this church group. I'm going to get in my car and drive away, but if YOU want me to I will turn around and come back."
God didn't want me to return to that church group. God began teaching me about the perversion of scriptures in the churches and antichrist in the church itself through changing of scripture.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (the day of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(churches would "fall away" from scripture, and when that happened the man of sin would reign in the church itself and we would see him in this corruption inside the churches)
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Antichrist would come through the churches, not in the worldly governments of men as they had been teaching in churches.
Concerning God speaking directly to me to instruct me ... HE has often done this.
But there have been several times during the past years that I had made a decision to do something based on words which were spoken by other individuals in church groups. I have felt God gave that other person a "word of wisdom" or "a word of knowledge" and it was the Word of God and I was delighted to receive that word regardless of who carried that word.
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After God told Moses to tell Aaron to go to Pharaoh and do these things, we read:
Exodus 7:20-21 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
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Exodus 7:22-25 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the Lord had said.
And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
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And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.
And he said, To morrow.
And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
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Concerning the time we live in and the last days:
As the judgments of God against the Egyptians came in the days of Moses, so will the wrath of God be loosed in the end time before Jesus returns to gather the church to Himself.
There will be great judgments of God which will come upon the people living on the earth at that time because of the sin of man on the earth.
As the people corrupted the earth in the days of Noah, people now corrupt the earth in each generation of man as it grows worse and worse just as the apostle Paul said it would do.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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Finally, before Jesus returns, the great tribulation spoken of in Revelation 8-16 will come upon this present earth.
God will bring the various "woes" and "plagues" upon this earth by doing things only God can do, such as:
* hail and lightening (fire) are loosed upon the earth and 1/3 of the trees are destroyed and all green grass is burned on the earth. Revelation 8:7
* a great mountain burning with fire is cast into the sea and 1/3 of the creatures in the sea died and 1/3 part of the ships are destroyed. Revelation 8:8-9
* a great star falls from heaven, burning, and it falls upon the 1/3 part of the rivers and waters and many men die from the waters which are made bitter. Revelation 8:10-11
* a third part of the sun, and the moon, and the stars are darkened ... and the day shines not for a 1/3 part and the night likewise. Revelation 8:12
* great smoke comes from "the bottomless pit" of the earth which is opened and the air is darkened because of the smoke. Revelation 9:1-2
* locust come out of the smoke of the bottomless pit and hurt the men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. These men are tormented for five months as if they have been stung by scorpions. Revelation 9:3-5
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
* angels slay 1/3 of the men of the earth. Revelation 9:15
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
* a noisome (very bad smelling) and grievous sore came upon those who had the mark of the beast and worshipped his image. Revelation 16:2
* every living soul in the sea died. Revelation 16:3
* the rivers and fountains of waters became blood. Revelation 16:4
* great heat came upon the earth and men were scorched with fire. Revelation 16:8
Revelation 16:9 and they repented not to give HIM glory.
* great darkness came upon the earth and caused men to gnaw their tongues for pain. Revelation 16:11
Revelation 16:11 And (they) blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
* the spirits of devils came working miracles. Revelation 16:14
* there was a great earthquake such as was not seen since men were upon the earth. Revelation 16:18
* the cities of the nations fell. Revelation 16:19
* every island fled away and the mountains were gone. Revelation 16:20
* a great hail fell on men. Revelation 16:21
Revelation 16:21 and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
The righteous rejoice at the judgments of God.
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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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And the heavens and earth that we currently have will be destroyed by God as is told in the following scripture by the apostle Peter.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of HIS coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning HIS promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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The dead in Christ rise:
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep (dead).
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
And those who belong to Christ who are still alive will be removed by Jesus from this present earth and will be gathered to meet HIM in the air.
I Thessalonians 4:17-18 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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The "New Jerusalem", the heavenly city which is created by God, will appear:
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
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The plagues of God free the people of God from the Egyptians of Moses day:
In Exodus, Chapters 7-11, we see the report of the continuations of the various wonders of God which are used by God to separate HIS people from the Egyptians and to eventually free HIS people from the land of Egypt and from the Egyptians.
After the frogs and the lice, God brings: swarms of flies, diseases on live stock, boils on man and beasts, grievous hail, locusts, gross darkness, the death of the firstborn of both man and beasts.
And I will put a division between MY people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
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Exodus 9:3-4 Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
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Exodus 9:18 God says: Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
20-26 He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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God makes a difference between HIS people and the people of this world.
That is still the case as is proven by the various plagues that are to come upon this world in the end time in the great tribulation.
But no one can expect to live as a friend of this world, partaking in the ways of this world, and escape the plagues that God will lose upon this world.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
friend: one who supports another in his thinking and in his acts
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He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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