The Egyptian word for this was ma’at. He’s in the line of Levi—the tribe that will be called to serve as Israel’s priests—and he’s the grandfather of one of the most important priests in Israel’s history. The Lord is revealing himself in all his glory. Do you see what’s happening here? And, again, as much as we are called to be faithful, obedient, and holy, what we manifest in doing so is not our work, but the work of God’s own Spirit in us. The Hebrew simply says, “You will be God to Pharaoh”. And consider this, too. 5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. It may seem like a small thing, after all, God is known by his people in so many ways that reflect his character and his provision, but it’s only now, in their deliverance from Egypt and their being named as God’s children, that they are to know him face-to-face as one who is I am and who is present with them. – What is the difference between being like God and being God to another? When God appeared to the patriarchs—face-to-face (e. g. Genesis 17:3), he was known as El Shaddai, as God Almighty. (1) See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh . Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let … There are different theories on what the significance of each of these signs is. In contrast, the word of Pharaoh was passed down the line, from the Egyptian taskmasters, to the Israelite foremen, to the workers themselves—and Pharaoh’s word was heard and obeyed. I’ve done that. And the reason for all this is so that all will know the Lord. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will … And yet here, in Moses, we get a glimpse of what it looks like for God to proclaim his word and bring his salvation through a human being. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. We should ask God to help us to willingly LET GO of whatever He wants us to let go. You’ve declared my word to him once. Hearing God’s command, Pharaoh’s carnal mind naturally resisted. But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”. He promised Abraham the land of Canaan. And the Israelites are not on that land; they’re slaves in Egypt crying out for deliverance. The LORD answered Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. He was considered to be divine. Paul interprets God’s hardening of Pharaoh as ultimately rooted in God’s free and sovereign will. 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. It was the responsibility of the pharaoh, as the incarnate god on earth, to maintain this balance. It points us straight to Jesus, the man who truly is God to us, the very word of God incarnate who brought salvation by his death and resurrection—a salvation meant to restore us to our role as God’s image bearers, the priests of his temple. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. It forces some introspection. I will give it to you for a possession. The Lord now reminds Moses of what he told him back at the burning bush. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. God’s Purpose in Pharaoh’s Fall Text: Exodus 9:13-26 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.But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you… I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh, and your brother, Aaron, will be your prophet. . He goes on in verse 5: Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. International Standard Version The LORD told Moses, "Listen! I am the one who depends on no one and whose character and faithfulness are contingent on nothing. I … Rather, it is putting Moses … God simply allowed Pharaoh to be the victim of his own carnal thinking. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Exodus 6:30 Exodus 7 Exodus 7:2. But, remember, it’s not our job to make it have an effect. The Lord has to metaphorically kick Moses in the seat of his pants and compelled him to go back to Pharaoh. Abraham and Isaac and Jacob knew me as ‘God Almighty’—you may be familiar with the Hebrew El Shaddai—but I never met them face-to-face as I am.”  You see, it’s not that the patriarchs didn’t know God as the Lord, as I am. As Christians, when we sense God telling us to let go of some sin, some plan, whatever, we shouldn’t be like Pharaoh and harden our hearts against His still small voice. Knowing the carnal mind well, God knew that Pharaoh could not submit to His commands. One of the key points here is that the deliverance of Israel from Egypt is not about Moses; it’s about the Lord. We disrupted creation by trying to take control of it ourselves. We’ll start getting into these “signs” next week. Exodus 16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. Again, he reiterates what his purpose is. And the point of all this resistance is to underscore that the Exodus is going to be the work of the Lord. And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You are like God to your Pharaoh Exodus 7:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “See I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.” Who are we? You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. . Exodus 16:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes. Exodus 7:2 You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. No one will be able to take credit for it but him. Next the Lord reminds Moses of the covenant—of the promise he made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. And for wasting my time, I’m going to increase the workload of your people.”  Pharaoh refused to hear the word of the Lord. --This is God's answer to the objection of Moses that his lips were uncircumcised (Exodus 6:12), and probably followed it immediately. Pharaoh says no to the Lord. He was considered to be divine. Why? God hardened Pharaoh’s heart because 1) Pharaoh was ungodly, not innocent; 2) he was already hardening his own heart; and 3) God sovereignly purposed to … We’re called to trust him for the same reason—although it should be easier for us. It’s … In 4:16, God states that Aaron will speak the words to Pharaoh and “it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.” Again, the ante has been upped. And yet our redemption is not yet complete. Now Moses will be a God to Pharaoh. 37 The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. Genesis 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. And that’s as far as it goes with that first generation. In his anger, Moses has questioned God’s character—his power, his sovereignty, and most importantly his faithfulness. Through Moses, he will show that Pharaoh has no control over the elements or even over life and death. 7:1). I won’t read the whole thing. The Lord will act, but the key point he emphasizes here is who he is. Just like how God spoke through Moses to Pharaoh to let His people go. When we left Moses last week he was at the end of his rope. Moses hints at that. And God … God gives us his word to proclaim to the world, but we fear what may happen if we speak it. It … GOD'S WORD® Translation The LORD answered Moses, "I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron is your prophet. The Plague of Blood. I’ve been here almost eleven years and, as a church, we’re smaller now than when I arrived. 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. God speaks and we doubt. But I’m reminded here that there may be nothing wrong. Moses will be the Lord’s instrument in delivering Israel. Think of it from Pharaoh’s perspective. We know why he was the right man for the Lord to call at this point in history. We rebelled and rejected that role. Pharaoh made their slavery even worse. Pharaoh said “No”, not because Moses was bad at his job or somehow unfaithful, but because the Lord was hardening his heart so that everyone would see him at work when the dam finally broke. He reminds them of his promises. Even Moses and Aaron say no to the Lord. Freedom isn’t an end in itself. The LORD answered Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. They had his history with the patriarchs. The Lord promised; the Lord will deliver. Consider that even today, one the first steps the Spirit has to take in bringing us to repentance is to strip us bare and to teach us that we are not our own masters. It’s discouraging. Declare it to him twice. Friend, if God is speaking to you right now to let go of some sin, some addiction, some person, don’t harden your heart like Pharaoh… And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. But since the text does not say that Moses would be like God but be God, Moses and God become inextricably linked in God’s dealing with Pharaoh. Those that teach Predestination claim that God arbitrarily predestines some to be saved and others to be lost. They need to evaluate his word and respond based on who they know him to be. He says through Isaiah: And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them. 38 So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?” 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. --, LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular, Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver, Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular, Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular, gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular, Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular, Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular, Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Law: Exodus 7:1 Yahweh said to Moses Behold I have (Exo. Behold, I am going to … Verses 26-27 then tell us: These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.”  It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron. The Hebrew has the potential to get us into trouble if we’re not careful, so the ESV tries to help out by saying that Moses will be like God to Pharaoh. I mean we who have saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 3 But I will make Pharaoh's heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. The force of it would seem to be: "Thou art not called on to speak, but to act. He and Aaron had marched confidently into Pharaoh’s throne room and had announced to the mighty king, “Thus says the Lord: Let my people go!”  But instead of saying, “Oh, okay. It’s really not that surprising that Israel failed to trust. They did. The Lord God said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. But they weren’t having it. God did not harden Pharaoh’s heart. Suddenly, now, there’s a genealogy stuck into the middle of the story. Once again, Moses and Aaron are to declare the word of the Lord to Pharaoh. Think of it from Pharaoh’s perspective. A Pharaoh would be someone whose considered a “God”, a link between the divine and the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. He has no power in Egypt. So with 6:2 the Lord sort of starts all over again. As Pharaoh, you are also “Lord of the two … And the Lord reminds them, once again, that Pharaoh will say no—and that this isn’t a failure on Moses’ part, nor is it a failure on the Lord’s part, but that it’s actually the Lord who is hardening Pharaoh’s heart. As a Pharaoh it would be your duty to create temples, monuments, celebrating your achievements and paying homage to Gods of the land. Freedom isn’t an end in itself. In action thou wilt be to Pharaoh as a god--powerful, wonder-working, irresistible; it is Aaron who will have to speak to him, and he is eloquent" (Exodus 4:14). The point being that they need to trust him. I’m inclined to agree with the folks who argue that this part of the story came from a simplified parallel account of the call of Moses and Aaron. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”. Moses spoke the word of the Lord to the Israelites and to Pharaoh. Let us pray: Almighty Father, make yourself known through us, we pray. 2 Tell Aaron everything I command you, and Aaron must command Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave his country. John Sailhammer writes this, “Within Egyptian religion, the universe was to exist in a harmonious whole, with each part contributing to the well-balanced system. But the Lord reminds us here that we may be the only “god” they see as well—or, better, we may be the first “god” they see as we witness the Lord to them. The Lord will beat Pharaoh at his own game through Moses. For Moses to be like God would be for Moses to have God-like characteristics or power apart from God. “Behold, I have made you God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet” (Exod. Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. The Lord makes good on his covenant promises. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”  But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” (Isaiah 19:21-25). God tells Moses that Aaron his brother will be his spokesman, and that Moses will be like God to Aaron. That means that when I say I will do something, I will do it.”  And the Lord seems to be saying here, “But I understand why you haven’t wrapped your head around this yet. He reminds them of his past faithfulness. Look at 7:1-7. Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. He reminds them of his name—which speaks to who he is, his nature and his character. And Moses will be God, not only to Pharaoh, but to the Israelites as well. I’m not a big fan of this time of year, when I have to prepare reports for Synod and for the AGM and file the last year’s statistics with the REC and ACNA. Covenant faithfulness is his character—what St. Paul refers to as God’s “righteousness”. Here we see Aaron’s credentials. But for this to happen, it had to happen in the Lord’s timing and in a way that would leave no question about who was acting. He was the representative and the embodiment of the gods of Egypt. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, he will not listen to you. I’m not perfect, but God has laid on me the tasks of preaching his word and administering his sacraments. I’ll close with some thoughts on this. He reminded them of his character. But the Israelites were even more miserable than before. Declare it over and over and over. They got angry and yelled at Moses. Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. And now we, in whom Jesus has restored God’s image, are now his means of spreading his word and proclaiming his royal summons. I am the Lord.’”  (Exodus 6:6-8). In Context Parallel Compare. 730 BCE) it had been adopted as an epithet of respect. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. In his role as “God to Pharaoh”, Moses was—by the grace of God—fulfilling his role as a bearer of God’s image. It begins here with Moses and Pharaoh, but the Lord is in this for the long haul and sees a much bigger picture than Moses and the Israelites can see. In the bible its mentioned about Moses that God make him like God to Pharaoh. Look at verses 10-13: So the Lord said to Moses, “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.”  But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. Moses, in his imperfection, points us to Jesus, who would fulfill this role perfectly. ", See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh . And the Moses got angry and yelled at God. Some exegetes, including Saadia Gaon (Book of Beliefs and Opinions, IV:6) and Rabbi Yitzchak Arama (chapter 36 of his Akedat Yitzchak), deny that the term “hardening of the heart” has anything to But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, he will not listen to you. “And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet” (Exodus 7:1). Now, this doesn’t mean that Moses will literally be God. Here, Moses was reluctant to appear a second time before Pharaoh, who was so much his worldly superior, but God reminded him that as a representative of the God of heaven and earth he was superior to Pharaoh. It then works its way down five generations in the family of Levi, to Aaron, and then to Aaron’s grandson, Phineas. Even in judging Pharaoh and the Egyptians, his goal is not ultimately destruction, but repentance. It’s interesting that we’re used to talking about what the Lord is going to do in terms of “plagues”—blood, frogs, locusts, hail, etc., but the Lord speaks of them as “signs”. The king’s power was but human but Moses source of power was divine. So what’s wrong? The LORD said, "I am going to make you like God to the king, and your brother Aaron will speak to him as your prophet. It is God who makes his word effective. We’ve already seen Moses’ pedigree. We can all take comfort in that. Grow our faith that we might always trust in you, even when things seem hopeless. Just as we have parallel accounts of Jesus in the Gospels that each emphasise different points and include differing amounts of details, there were once parallel accounts of these Old Testament events. So I said to you, ‘Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Moses and Aaron used their power to turn the Nile River into blood, and that caused the fish to die. And so, one final time, the Lord gives instructions to Moses. It won’t come now for the Egytpians, it won’t even come soon, but by the time we get to the prophets, a thousand years after the Exodus, the Lord will be speaking about the nations being drawn to the Messiah. Amen. I don’t know your god. I am the one who is. I expect we’ve all heard that old adage, “You may be the only Bible they ever see,” which is meant to exhort us to preach God’s word and to proclaim his gospel. he will not listen to you. . Remember, it is not God’s word alone that we preach to the world, but since Jesus has restored us to our role as image bearers, we do more than merely speak. But Moses has met God as I am face-to-face. He’s the one who ultimately causes our work to bear fruit. I've positioned you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. Ex). But it wasn’t because Moses had failed. Some Old Testament scholars argue that each of them was aimed at undermining one of Egypt’s false gods and showing them to be powerless. Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. Or perhaps Henry makes that statement because Moses is only God to Pharaoh and because Pharaoh does not know or worship the God of the Israelites. Possibly, Henry missed this verse in his commentary. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Moses will be the one through whom the Lord speaks to his people when he gives them his law. The English versions differ as to the precise translation of the first clause of Exodus 7:1. (Exodus 6:4). The Serpent's Deception … 4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her. We have his history over the course of the whole Old Testament, and even more important, we have the ultimate fulfilment of his promises in the death and resurrection of Jesus. This is not to suggest that Moses is suddenly divine. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty … Exodus 4:15,16 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do…. It begins with Simeon and Reuben, Jacob’s two oldest sons, and then Levi, the third oldest. To be like something is to be similar to it but not it or part of it. “Remember, Moses, I am the I am. Pharaoh, originally, the royal palace in ancient Egypt. He did what the Lord called him to do. This shorter account comes from a priestly tradition, which put the genealogy here to show Aaron’s priestly line and to show how he and his sons became so important. Remind us, as we steep ourselves in your word, of your character and your faithfulness to your promises. As Pharaoh , it would be your duty to officiate at religious ceremonies, pick the sites of temples and decree what work would be done. “Now—now that you’ve failed, now that you’ve hit rock bottom, now that Pharaoh has put his foot down and refused—now you will see what I will do. That’s your job. Am I not being faithful as a pastor? It’s part of his plan to bring redemption to the world. And so we found, in 6:1, that all of this rejection was for a purpose. But as I said last week, the key point that they all missed was that God was working—because this is always how God works—he was working to make himself known: to the Israelites, to the Egyptians, and to the watching nations. The purpose of the ‘plagues’ was thus to challenge this basic concept by showing that the pharaoh was powerless before the God of the covenant….What we see in the plagues, then, is an unmasking of Pharaoh’s claims to deity and his claim to rule the universe. I was thinking about this passage over the last couple of weeks. I will give it to you for a possession. If we are being faithful in what the Lord has called us to do and nothing seems to be happening, it’s always a good time to look at the situation and ask if we’re being as faithful as we think we are, but if we are—we can trust God. God uses Pharaoh to typify Satan, whose mind is diametrically opposed to God’s. It’s the job of the preacher: Declare the word of the Lord. The goal is for everyone involved, both Israel and the Egyptians, not to mention the watching world, to know the Lord, the God of Israel. The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom (starting in the 18th dynasty, 1539–1292 BCE), and by the 22nd dynasty (c. 945–c. 40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. And the watching word would learn something about the Lord in the process too. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”  Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. Thy prophet.--Or spokesman--the declarer of thy mind, which is the primary sense of "prophet. And then verses 28-30 remind us again of the Lord’s command to these two. So the Lord sends Moses to Pharaoh again. The Israelites say no to the Lord. Moses will be God to both Aaron and Pharaoh, and not just Pharaoh alone. This is what we human beings were created for—to be God’s representatives in his creation. . But God only manifested himself to Abraham as the Lord in a vision—the night he established his covenant with him (Genesis 15). Brothers and Sisters, remember that it is our calling to proclaim. And God now puts Moses in a similar role in relation to himself. Amplified Bible Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now hear this: I make you as God to Pharaoh [to declare My will and purpose to him]; and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. And things got worse. He reminded them of his past faithfulness. Exodus 7:1 Context. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. I get it. Now, this doesn’t mean that Moses will literally be God. But the editor who put it here in the final product that the Spirit has seen to deliver to us, used it, similarly, to show that Aaron was worthy of the Lord’s call to speak for Moses. the king of Egypt [ L Pharaoh] , and your brother Aaron will be like a prophet for you [ C just as God would speak to people through prophets so Moses would speak to Pharaoh through Aaron] . Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. Pharaoh was, in effect, taking credit for something in which he had no part, and the signs that Moses performed demonstrated that unmasking, the writer intended to show that only Yahweh is truly God.”. But remind us always that it is not ultimately our faithfulness that makes you known to the word, but the power of your word, the power of your Spirit, and your own glorious righteousness. 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