https://www.gotquestions.org/ten-plagues-Egypt.html
I love watching the History Channel. While I was watching “The Food That Built America” the other night, a common theme seemed to be playing out. Someone invented the chicken sandwich and once it got popular, everyone was trying to build their own and compete in the market place. All that competition gave us some really great food. It also focused our attention on just how many brands of chicken sandwiches we have today and it all started from one guy in a kitchen.
Like the story of the chicken sandwich, God showed himself to one man, Abraham, and created a covenant with him. This covenant was passed down to his family members until the story of the Israelites coming to live in Egypt to escape a famine in the land. They found that God had prepared a place for them through Joseph. Some 430 years later, we read the that the small group of family members had grown into nation of over 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. This nation would eventually leave Egypt under the mighty hand of God as He struck the Egyptians with ten plagues. This awesome power spread word throughout the nations as Israel would conquer and settle in Canaan.
Why the plagues though? Why ten of them? Why did God choose to send all those weird things like frogs, lice, darkness, and the rest? Why did God choose to do all these, seemingly, weird things? The answer lies in what the Egyptians praised as gods at that time. To step back and look from a the thousand foot view, we get a glance into a great launch God had his hand on and this launch would be the beginning of Israel the nation. For 430 years, while growing a nation, the Israelites, were a slave population. A group of people used only for work and that is all. No spiritual contribution, no intellectual contribution, just get to work and go home and do it all over again.
The covenant God made with these slaves was lost for the most part. In their everyday life you can see how they would say, “where is God?” Day after day, year after year, decade after decade, century after century you can see how this God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph was nowhere to be found. In the absence of God the people might have started to believe in the gods of Egypt. One god for every thing you see from the plants to the Nile, these gods were more real than their true God was despite how the old timers talked about God. He was nowhere to be found.
Moses showed up with a plan from God Almighty, it was called the ten plagues and a bullseye was put on Egypt. I have attached an article that goes through the ten plagues and how each one has significance on how God chose to show up the little gods of Egypt and prove that God is the God of it all. It is a great read.
For some of you, the ten plagues kind of look like your life right now. Week after week, month after month, everything you see around you is being destroyed. Depressing for sure. You can identify with the Israelites as slaves because it seems all you do is work and your life just gets worse and hope has flown out the window. You might have even second guessed this Jesus thing because you see no benefit from it all. You are not alone. We all get there from time to time. The ten plagues are a great story for us during these times. God had a purpose to destroy every little god in the Egyptians lives to promote the fact the God of the Israelites was the one true God.
Today, be encouraged that even though life looks like a plague, God is showing us that He is still in control. He is showing us that all those little gods we turned to in our despair cannot match the power and might of God alone. If we put our trust in Him we will see our exodus and while we are beginning that exodus, we will plunder the enemies camp. God is calling all of us out of Egypt and to forget its little gods.
Let It Go 
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