August 1, 2010 – Exodus 7

I know I didn’t really have an answer when I was talking about the staff turning into a serpent at the burning bush, but here we see the staff turn into a “snake” in front of Pharaoh.  Usually terms are not in there unless they are suppose to be, so that makes me think that there was something more to the serpent at the burning bush than just a regular snake. 

The ten plagues were not just done at random.  They were an attack of the Egyptian Gods as well.  The Hebrews had begun to fall into the Egyptian beliefs and so not only was God showing His power for the Egyptians, but was showing the Hebrews that He is all powerful, above any Egyptian god.

Hapi was the god of the Nile, father of all gods.  The Nile turning to blood was an attack on him. 

Heket was the goddess of fertility and happened to have the head of a frog.   http://www.crystalinks.com/heket.html