Sunday Sermonette: Hard, hard heart

I forgot to index last week ' s entry, it was Exodus 9. Here ' s Exodus 10, which makes very clear what is really going on here.Then theLord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them2 that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am theLord. ”Let ' s review, because this is important. Earlier we learned that God would harden Pharaoh ' s heart. Pharaoh was inclined  to let the Hebrews go early on in this story, but God made sure that he did not because God wanted to inflict all these horrors on the Egyptians. The reason God wanted to do that is to prove his own power. And the only reason he wants the Hebrews to be freed in the first place is so they can worship him. God is a malignant narcissist and a psychopath.3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what theLord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go,so that they may worship me. [emphasis added]4If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.5 They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.6 They will fill your houses and those of all ...
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