About Pharoah's Heart

 

About Pharoah’s Heart

Exodus 3:19 “And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.”

Exodus 4:21 “And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.”

Exodus 8:15” But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.”

     A man cannot harden his heart without God.  Once the thought is entertained and agreed upon, the will is conceived in the heart.  A hardening of the heart is simply a phrase meaning, “to go against God.”  However, it is God who created the spiritual being.  He takes full responsibility for its mechanism.  If the man thinks awful things, garbage will come out his extremities.

     So Pharoah and God worked together to keep shifting him in reverse.  It would sound that Pharoah was God’s puppet without mercy, but this was not so.

     Did not God say He raised Pharoah up for this very purpose?  And what have we to make of this?  Did God predestine him, bearing with longsuffering an object prepared for destruction, that His glory may be revealed?  Well, God indeed put up with him.  The question being if God handpicked this guy to be deaf and dumb to His spirit before creation.  How about, no.

     The picture is a horse born wild.  Wild on the frontier.  God gave him ample space to run.  He championed his following herd as the lead stallion.  In time, his influence grew to dominate all areas about.  The Egyptian kingdom, won from the Hyksos, expanded to become the greatest in the world at that time.  Because, God let it.

     It is God who gives permission.  He rules the nations.  If one exceeds through physical and military advantages, it is due to man’s cooperation with God.  Even Hitler desired an army.  He got one because God let him.  Quite often God’s reasons are beyond us.  But in the case of Pharoah, God’s purpose was clear.  He wanted to convince the Egyptians that He was more powerful than their gods.  That He was Lord.

     So up came dummy.  An idiot in the spiritual knowledge category.  He didn’t entertain repentance until after the hail plague.  When Moses sounded the “all clear”, God said Pharoah hardened his own heart.

     If a man decides against God, God gives him the freedom to turn his will.  Thoughts and actions must line up.  God is a God of continuity.  The being must function as created.  Pharoah simply exercised his futile will under an omnipotent God.

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