The Second Plague: Frogs

  

Exodus 8:1-15

 

August 24, 2025

 

The Second Plague: Frogs

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.  But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs. The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.  The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”  And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!’”  So, Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.  But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”  Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.”  And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.  The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.”  So, Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.  And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.  But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

A request to Pharaoh, and a promise, the request, let my people go, and if you do not, I will send a plague of frogs.  God always keeps His promises, and the frogs cover the land, got into their beds, and food.  So, what is the source of evil, Pharaoh? The magicians said that no big deal, we can also make frogs come on land, big problem; they had no secret ways to make the frogs go away.  So, all they did was add more frogs.

 

Now, if you want to get a leader's attention, since a plague on his nation, and he is in trouble.   We saw that in COVID, and the evil one used people like Bill Gates and his partners to use their clout to control the global response, with little oversight.  And now we know that the drug they pushed may have made many in the drug business rich, and they did great harm to many, and still are.  We still have magicians, and they know how to do harm, but their drugs did not come close to the promises made.

 

We also witness that Pharaoh was a liar, and God had already told Moses the truth.  Do you recall the little man who claimed he was science? Guess what, he was also a liar.  Not much has changed; we have a source of truth, his name is Jesus, and we still have those controlled by the evil one.

 

“Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.  The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.”  And that's what happens.  Yes, the old is forever new, men lie, and God always keeps His promises.

 

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Bob Rice