The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and Hail
The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and HailExodus 9:8-35 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with to Exodus, chapter 9. We’ve worked through the first five plagues now, and it may be good to pause and review some of themes we’ve seen so far. First of all, we’ve emphasized on a number of occasions that the plague represents God’s redemptive work of destruction. That is, as He works to redeem us from our enemies, from Satan and from sin from the power of the flesh and the world, He also tears down the strongholds which are arrayed against us, and we see that foreshadowed in the Exodus itself. As the people of Israel are being redeemed out of Israel, it means judgment against Egypt itself. We’ve also seen, as we work through the plagues, a clear manifestation of the…