Jan 30th - God Makes A Mess Of Egypt

At this point even the Pharaoh's officials are begging him to let the people go because Egypt lies in ruins after all the miracles God has done. Pharaoh tells Moses that only the men can go worship the Lord. God then tells Moses, "Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm." So he does and they do. Pharaoh agains summoned Moses and Aaron and begs him to plead with the lord to get rid of the locusts. So Moses does and God hardened Pharaoh's heart so he wouldn't let the people go. We move on to pure darkness over the land of Egypt for 3 days and then the one last final blow is being set up to where Pharaoh will order Moses and His people to go......

In Matthew Jesus is firing off more parables and as he was going up to Jerusalem and took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him. "Listen, we're going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. The will sentence him to die. Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead." How's that for a downer speach from the big cheese himself.