How Utterly Pharaoh Of Us

             God had used plagues a number of times to rescue the Israelites. When Abraham had lied about Sarah....thus putting her into Pharaoh's household....God rescued her through a plague on Pharaoh's house. Battles were won in a similar way. Good King Uzziah was stricken with leprosy when pride overcame his fear of God....but none of these examples are as well-known than the ten plagues upon Pharaoh in order to rescue the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.
             How long did the ten plagues of take? Well we don't know....but less than a year....and possibly many months....and each time as the plague subsided....Pharaoh's heart was hardened again. God it seems even altered the path of the escaping Israelites....to a seemingly dead end....in order to bring one last judgment on Egypt and Pharaoh.
              The Black Death of the mid-14th century was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions....possibly 200 million people.....in a world that at the time had less than half as many people than does China today. Some historians speculate that the Renaissance....and Humanism....followed because of the devastation of the plague....but the Reformation was just around the corner. Quarantines and social distancing and hygiene....and later on vaccines....were used as protection. I had my second coronavirus shot yesterday.
               No sooner had the English kicked out the Puritans....and brought back the monarchy....then the Great Plague hit London....followed by the Great Fire of London....but even with all of this....the ten plagues upon Pharaoh's Egypt remain the best example of God's judgment....and each time Pharaoh was shook up....but only until the latest plague subsided....when pride returned....and then came another plague.
                We speculated at the time on how 9/11 might change American attitudes....and it did for a while.....a very short while. The following wars were not the plague....but rather the incapacitating division in America as to defending ourselves....which was the real plague upon America. Then we had a great economic collapse....and then a great collapse in discernment....which led to Barack Obama....and then Donald Trump....followed by what we have now....a worldwide plague once again....and inability to even admit that it is a plague....and a what was unsustainable $19 trillion national debt four years ago....that exploded further into a $28 trillion and growing debt....and each time we learn nothing....essentially telling God that He will have to do a whole lot more than that to get our attention....and each time He does....and will continue to do so.
                Meanwhile there is a remnant....all over the world....and they will be rescued....as Pharaoh will once again in essence refuse to let them alone....and refuse to acknowledge God's judgments....but God will not rapture this church....not yet....as He did not just let the Israelites temporarily outrun Pharaoh....but rather His plan will be fulfilled.
                I don't know why it amazes me....(I should only have to look into a mirror)....but it does....how we....Christians....cannot see God's judgments upon this world....and that they are not going to stop....only increase....as this world is not going to outrun them....and we will surely see the return of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.....in yet another Red Sea judgment.
                I don't know how many times I've uttered this prayer in these posts...."Lord....open our eyes to this man Donald Trump"....eight or ten or a dozen? Right now we think that this latest judgment is ebbing....and we are going right back to our dependence on power and might and politics....totally ignorant and disinterested of our own culpability in all that has transpired....always saying...."peace at last"....but this is only until the next judgment comes....how utterly Pharaoh of us.