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The Beauty in a Song
Songs are beautiful.
They have beautiful instrumentation and they have vocalists with amazing talent that harmonize with the music and create riffs and runs that excite all who hear them.
But a song, a musical melody, a piano rift would be purposeless without words.
The words are what distinguish the music from simple background noise.
I have realized that when artists arrange songs, they focus heavily on the words.
“God is able to do just what He said He would do.
He’s gonna fulfill every promise to you.
So don’t give up on God because He won’t give up on you.
He’s able.
And sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
In order to write words as powerful as these, the author has to have gone through something; something that changed them.
I can think of a Biblical Character by the name of Moses who went through something that changed him.
We all know the story.
God wanted to set His people free from bondage and the Pharaoh refused to free God’s people.
Then God does something extraordinary.
He begins to plague Egypt.
The first plague is that God turned the Nile river into blood.
The ramifications of this plague included the destruction of the one source of water in Egypt.
It also caused all the wildlife within the river to die.
This means that the main source of water and food was destroyed.
And then God sent frogs to plague Egypt.
Soon after, God sent lice and flies and diseases to plague humans and livestock.
I believe by the seventh plague God had gotten fed up with Pharaoh’s insubordination.
The next three plagues began to show the wonder and greatness of God.
God hit Egypt with the worst storm that they had ever experienced since they had become established as a nation.
He then hit them with locusts that destroyed their crops.
Now the last plague was the most devastating of all.
God sent an angel to kill the first born son of all who did not believe in Him and follow His command.
There are a few significant things that I have noticed about these plagues.
The first thing that I noticed is that the first plague was the way God chose to identify Himself to Pharaoh.
What do I mean by this?
God chose to identify Himself as the source of life in Egypt.
Without the water, without Him, the land would not be able to survive.
The crops would die, the livestock would die and the people would ultimately die also.
It’s almost as if God flexed His spiritual muscle and said if you don’t do as I command, your land will perish.
The second thing that I realize about these plagues is that not a single plague affected the Hebrew people.
This is because the plagues were designed specifically to afflict the Egyptian people.
God had done this in an effort to show that His covering hand was on Israel.
Also, this was a way to remind pharaoh to release the Hebrew people.
In particular, the final plague was very significant in this regard.
God had given specific instructions and when followed, the angel of death would not strike in the house.
See sometimes in our lives we find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and we expect to get hit with a plague.
We see everyone around us getting hit with plagues and we think its just a matter of time until the plagues hit us also.
· We see our family and friends getting plagued with cancer.
· We see them getting plagued with financial burdens.
· We see them getting plagued with car troubles.
· We see them getting plagued with broken heartedness.
We see them being plagued with broken spirits and we wonder why we haven’t been plagued yet.
But we have to realize that God is covering us with His grace.
Sometimes bad things happen around us but not to us because God is covering us.
And God blocked it.
He wouldn’t let it be so.
Has anyone ever experienced God blocking it?
Has anyone felt God block something that was designed to destroy you?
Somebody better give Him a praise for blocking it!
The final thing that I noticed about the plagues is that God is the only escape from your plagues.
We all know how the story ends.
All the plagues hit Egypt and Pharaoh finally agrees to set the Hebrew people free.
He then changes his mind when the Hebrew people began to leave.
When the Hebrews got to the red sea, they faced a dilemma.
They could not get through the sea for the water was far too high and they had pharaoh’s army chasing after them from behind.
So again God had to step in and create a way out of no way to help the Hebrew people escape.
Moses raised his rod to the sky and God opened the red sea that all Hebrew people could walk on dry land.
Have any of you been stuck at a red sea in your life?
Has there ever been a test that you knew you didn’t study for and you just knew you were going to sink and drawn in that red sea?
Have you ever been at the red sea of car troubles?
(insert car trouble analogy) Many times we get to our red sea’s but we don’t have the faith to raise our rod and trust that God will bring us through.
See the red sea wasn’t an obstacle, it was a miracle waiting to happen and God delivered His people.
Now you may be wondering why I am focusing on the Hebrews so heavily.
It’s simply because of this; in order to understand the future we must first understand what happened in the past.
Revelation chapter 15 makes a clear distinction between those who conquered the beast who are the followers of God, and those who received the mark of the beast on their hands and foreheads.
The scene is painted of a people who have overcome the world.
But in the next chapter we see that those who did not overcome the world will receive the full wrath of God.
God will plague the world in the future.
Those who received the mark of the beast in their hand and on their foreheads, will receive the seven last plagues poured out by God’s angels.
These last seven plagues parallel the Egyptian plagues almost down to a tee.
The first plague was a plague of boils.
The second plague turned the sea into blood.
The third plague turned the rivers and springs into blood.
The fourth plague caused the sun to scorch the people.
The fifth plague plunged the world into darkness.
The sixth plague caused all the water on earth to dry up.
The final plague caused a giant storm accompanied by earth quakes that destroys the earth.
Now I don’t want to focus too heavily on the plagues outside of the fact that these plagues are intensified versions of the Egyptian plagues.
The thing I want to focus on is how do we avoid receiving the mark of the beast and ultimately how do we avoid these last seven plagues?
There are three commands that we must follow in order to avoid the mark of the beast and ultimately to avoid the seven last plagues.
These three commands are found in Revelation chapter 14.
The first command is found in verse 7.
This command tells us to “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Something that stood out to me is that this angel is said to be carrying the everlasting Gospel.
This references back to the beginning of sin on earth.
When man fell, God told mankind that we would conquer the devil and in order for this to happen, God had to set up a sacrificial system.
In the old Testament, the sacrificial system was found in the sanctuary.
Humanity would confess their sins over a lamb, slay it and sprinkle its blood on the veil in the temple.
Once a year the temple would be cleansed and all the sins of the people would be forgiven.
But this wasn’t the final plan for salvation.
God then sent His Son Jesus, the blameless lamb of God to take on the sins of the world.
This everlasting Gospel tells us that the God who created humanity is the same God who came down to earth and hung on a cross to save us from our sins!
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