Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 9: 13-19
MEDITATION
Exodus 9:13-19
13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me,
14 for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
15 Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.
16 But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.
17 As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.
18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.
19 Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.”’
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. Instructions for Moses
a. Once again, the Lord instructs Moses before he is sent out.
b. This is done regularly so that Moses would be fully prepared.
2. A word of warning to Pharaoh
a. He must let the children of Israel go.
b. They must leave Egypt to worship and to serve the LORD.
3. Further plagues
a. They would hit harder.
b. They would reach to their very heart.
c. So that they may learn that there is none comparable to God.
4. Pharaoh’s problem
a. He has exalted himself.
b. This was the reason why he had not obeyed God to let the children of Israel go.
5. God’s perspective is quite different
a. In Pharaoh, God’s power would be even more evident.
b. God’s name would be even more significant after all the plagues unleashed on Egypt.
6. The 7th plague would be Hailstone
a. It would be the worst hailstone storm Egypt has ever had.
b. A kind word of warning.
i. They may bring livestock out of the field.
ii. Anything left out in the field would be struck by the hailstone storm.
iii. The hailstone could potentially kill both man and beast.
经文：出埃及记 9：13-19
沉思
《出埃及记 9：13-19》
13 耶和华对摩西说：“你清早起来，站在法老面前，对他说：‘耶和华希伯来人的神这样说：容我的百姓去，好侍奉我。
14 因为这一次我要叫一切的灾殃临到你和你臣仆并你百姓的身上，叫你知道在普天下没有像我的。
15 我若伸手用瘟疫攻击你和你的百姓，你早就从地上除灭了。
16 其实，我叫你存立，是特要向你显我的大能，并要使我的名传遍天下。
17 你还向我的百姓自高，不容他们去吗？
18 到明天约在这时候，我必叫重大的冰雹降下，自从埃及开国以来，没有这样的冰雹。19 现在你要打发人把你的牲畜和你田间一切所有的催进来，凡在田间不收回家的，无论是人是牲畜，冰雹必降在他们身上，他们就必死。’”