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Surviving The Plagues-Part 2


“‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the Lord, am in this land.  I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.’” Exodus 8:22-23

Our times (and some of our Pastors) have trained us that all good things in life must be attributed to God and all bad things to the devil. In a sense this is true. After all we have such beautiful verses like James 1:17

 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

We also have passages in the Bible that specifically pin bad events on our enemy, the Devil.

Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8

However this premise is not always true. Sometimes God allows bad things to happen to good people-even to His children as we read in Part 1.
In part 2 we consider a second category of plagues where God is clearly seen to be protecting His people from crises afflicting the general population.
-the plague of flies 8:22-23
-the death of livestock
-hail-storm
-locusts
-darkness
-death of the firstborn

From Exodus 8:22-23 to Exodus 11, we can conclude that God, in certain instances will spare His people the perils of some natural calamities.

However we also teased out the plague of hail-stones and the death of the firstborn and put them in their own category.
This third category was unique in the sense that instructions were given on how to reduce risk of loss.

-to avoid the hailstones both the Israelites and the Jews were warned to shelter their livestock and other property. 9:19
-in the death of the firstborns the Jews were given very specific instructions on what to do the night of the plague Exodus 12:1-28

Again, this we could relate with.
-Are there specific instructions that we have been given concerning C-19? Of course.
-Are there people who ignored the warning concerning the hailstorm? Yes. And they suffered loss.
-Are there people ignoring warnings from public health experts and scientists? Yes. And some have suffered terrible loss.

So we went back to explaining why;

1. We can't play outside with our friends
2. We can't travel to visit Babu and Nyanya( Nairobians please remember 'nyanya' is not a reference to tomatoes)
3. We can't go out to eat pizza in a restaurant
4. No April church camp
5. Can't go to the supermarket
6. Etc etc

By this time my wife was looking more accepting of my words. I concluded that she was finally feeling the weight of my heavy self-proclaimed titles.

We ended by singing this song...

https://youtu.be/q4KzCrpcLjo

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