Bible reading number 163, and we're in the book of Wiele Shemot, the book of Exodus. And we're in the ninth chapter of the book of Exodus. And we're talking about the plagues, the plagues of Egypt. Some people say the plagues went over two years, some of them say nine years, nine months. Whatever it was, it happened, real. It really happened. And God used natural diseases and natural phenomena, but he exemplified it, he magnified it so much when he wanted. They were used to the red tide. They were used to the plague of locusts. They were used to all this stuff, but not to this extent. God just magnified it. They were used to the frogs. But God magnified it to where it could not be a natural phenomenon. And even the magicians of Pharaoh said, this is the finger of God, of Elohim. Very finger of God. And it talks here about a heavy pestilence. Let's go back and read a little bit of that. It's in the book of Exodus in the ninth chapter. Exodus chapter nine. The book of Exodus and Genesis are the foundation of the Bible. You go back there and you'll find out the beginnings and everything, how God set up. And in the book of Genesis, in the ninth chapter, it even tells you the history of the world, what's gonna happen. The last chapter of the book of Genesis there, where Jacob makes his prophecy, he prophesied the whole history of the world. Exodus, the ninth chapter in verse three, well let's go through one, two, three. Then the Lord said to Moses, go to Pharaoh and speak to him. Keep on speaking to him was what it literally says in the Hebrew. Thus says Jehovah Elohim of the Hebrews, let my people go. And the word people there comes from the word om, which means what? What does it mean? Let my people go. The word people there is let my family go. This is God's family. These are God's children. He said, let my family go. Not just people, let my family go that they may serve me. That they may serve me and worship me. They can't worship me here. They have to get out of here. God had to get Israel out of Egypt for years before he could even use them in the promised land. They had to be out there in the wilderness for how many years? 40 years in the wilderness because they carried with them the stink of Egypt, the stink of Egypt's gods. For if you refuse to let my people go, my family go, and continue to hold them captive, behold, my hand, the hand of the Lord, will come with a very severe pestilence, a very severe pestilence on your livestock, which are in the field. and on the horses, and on the donkeys, and on the camels, and on the herds, and on the flocks. I am going to strike your economy. The coronavirus, many people think that it might have been manufactured in Wuhan lab. Whether it was or not, it affected the economy of the whole world, and it broke the economy of the world. Many businesses in America are no longer there. They're gone. Family business has been here for 50, 100 years. Some of them are gone. 20, 30, 40 year family businesses are gone. It economically struck the world. And it not only happened in America, but it happened all over the world. Your donkeys and your camels. Verse number four now, this is where a difference comes. Something's going to happen here now. It's going to be different. Verse number four. Let's read that from the Hebrew translation. All the plagues heretofore will now trigger this plague. If you have the plague of frogs, if you have the Nile River turned into red tide extreme, if you have all this, there's one thing happens and another thing happens. You can catch a common cold and die of pneumonia, can't you? You can get an allergy, an asthma attack that will go into pneumonia. And you will die from that. I almost did several times from allergies. Mowing the grass, mowing the lawn. One time I mowed the lawn and was down with pneumonia for a month, two months. All these plagues triggered the next plague. And he shall separate Jehovah between the cattle, of Israel and between the cattle of Egypt. This word, cattle, is mikneh there. It means all of them, all the livestock. And not, he shall keep on dying from all the sons of Israel this plague. The word plague there is the word dabah. The word dabah there means an edict. It just means word. The bar means word, but right here it means the spoken word of God. Remember the last message I taught, preaching with two lit sticks of dynamite in your hands and are lit, the word of God is powerful. The word of God here was powerful in ancient Egypt. And YSM, and he set and kept on setting Jehovah the appointed time. the Moed, the appointed time, the Mor, saying, tomorrow, he shall do or accomplish, Jehovah, this Ha, the bar, this edict, this prescription, this, what we might call, command. God is gonna command this to happen. the this in the land, in this land. You don't let my people go, Pharaoh, I'm going to destroy your land. I'm going to destroy your land in such a way that you won't have any wealth left. It's going to be all gone. I'm going to attack your economy right now. All of your animals now are going to be diseased and many of them are going to die. And there's where their wealth, it says in the Bible that Abraham had so many camels, so many cows, so many sheep, so many goats. Wealth was counted by your animal, your livestock. There was a man here in Fish Lake Valley, actually he lived in Leida and was a rancher here. Name was Jim. And this guy, Finally, come down to the point where he realized that he just didn't want to ranch anymore. He was down at the end. His brother had died up there. His brother was cooking pancakes on the wood-burning cook stove one time and fell on the stove dead. That was his number one right-hand man. Anyway, he got a hold of the Rudnick Cattle Company. in Bakersfield. And he come told him come up here and he says, Now I've got all of this land. He, uh, ran his cattle all the way from the other side of Tonopah all the way down to Death Valley and into Death Valley and all the areas around Death Valley. They arrested him one time, and they told him Why did you allow your cattle to come down here in the Death Valley National Monument? And he said, well, you know, sir, my cattle had been coming in here before Death Valley National Monument was ever established. And he said, there's signs up there that tell you don't run your cattle there. And he said, my cattle can't read. My cows can't read. Boy, they got him in contempt of court. They did everything else. He just stayed in jail. When they put him in jail for this, he just stayed there, and his cowboys would come in, and he'd tell them what to do and whatever, because he was getting freed, room, and board. And he wasn't out there in the blazing sun or in the cold weather. He was in jail. This is OK for me. Just let me serve my time for disobedience, according to you, and I'll just keep on going. Well, he got ahold of Rudnick. And he told them, they said, well, how many cows do you got out there? Well, he's rich. He had cattle all over the place, and those cows could eat cactus and live. They were tough. I don't know how many I got. Probably 5,000 cattle and all his rangeland. I'll guarantee you got 5,000 cows out there. That's wealth, OK? And they gave him the money for the land that he owned and for the cattle. And back then, the way you could run cattle on BLM land, or government land, was you had to go out there and drill a water well, or improve a spring, so the cattle, every so many miles, you had to have a spring, or a windmill, or something there, and he made sure that he did. And he had all of this ranch land, and sometimes, some place you get over there, Baton Nepal, you've been there, Larry. Out there, it takes 50 acres to support one cow. Because there isn't much vegetation out there, is there? But he had to provide water for them. And they got mad at him one time and arrested him in Goldfield, Nevada, because his cows were eating up everybody's magnolias. And they were eating up their geraniums and everything. Now, cows could eat anything. They put him in jail. And he just stayed in jail until they let him out, until he served his time. But Rudnick went up there and they found, I think, instead of 5,000 cattle, they had 8,000 cattle. He was Richard and Abraham. We see this. Wealth is measured by animals, livestock. Livestock produces clothing from their wool. It includes clothing from their hides, the leather. Milk and cheese and butter. and meat. If you had enough cattle, you could live. Those Bedouins, Abraham could go from one place A to B and travel a thousand miles and never have to buy anything because he's got everything there in his cattle well. Well, Egypt is going to become very poor. When Joseph went to the, basically to the throne of Egypt, everybody, he bought up all the land by the famine in the land and they had to give all their cattle, give all their land back to Pharaoh so they could get food, food, the grain. So Pharaoh became very rich and had been very rich all since the days of Joseph. But now Pharaoh and the Egyptians, which are a different family, by the way, will become very poor. why are us how the bar at how the bar has a ma'am Michelle Rath why am I call midnight mid ram you may make it can a been a Israel low met a hot and He did and kept on doing, Jehovah, just exactly like he said in his written and spoken word at Hathabar, the event, the thing, the edict, the proclamation, the this. And from tomorrow, and die to all the cattle, all the cattle, all the cattle that could be eaten, Reward cattle here. It means those that can be cooked in an oven or fire. That's what it said McNay From all the ovens of Mitzrayim or Egypt from the cattle of the sons of Israel lo met a hard not one died Not one he had died not one cattle not one sheep not one goat not one cow not one camel nothing of the nation of Israel died, nothing and none of it was affected. He wanted to say, this is my people, this is my family, and that's your family. You are bringing destruction on your family, and my family no longer will be affected by the plagues that I bring upon you. By Y'sha'allah, Pharaoh. And he sent Pharaoh, and behold, not Not a single animal was dead. From the cattle of Israel. Until one. And was heavy Pharaoh's heart. He made heavy. He kept making his heart hard. And Pharaoh not. He would send away the family of God. He wouldn't send them away. Now, there was a god called Imhotep. Imhotep. And Imhotep was the power over medicine. And by the way, the Egyptian people had the most advanced medicines and the most advanced doctors in the known world at that time. They were a very advanced civilization. They did dentistry, they did brain surgery, they did all kinds of stuff. And this Imhotep, the god of medicine now, God is gonna show Pharaoh that he's a god over their god of medicine. First of all, he shows them one thing, that all of their cattle are dying and not one Jewish cattle is gonna die. Not one Hebrew cow is gonna die, not one Hebrew goat, not one Hebrew lamb or anything. They're all gonna be all right because the God is our healer. Jehovah Tessa Canoe, that's one of the titles. Jehovah our healer, Jehovah our doctor. And he kept on saying Jehovah unto Moses and unto Aaron, take for you a full, your hands full of soot. Take your hands that are full of soot. Go out there and go in the oven and just get a whole bunch of ashes, okay? Ashes. Fill up your hands with ashes over a smelting kiln and scatter. And you will have scattered or sprinkled it, Moses. Just throw it in the air. Throw it up in the air. I want you to sprinkle this in the air. before the eyes of Pharaoh. I want you to go right down there. We're in Pharaoh's presence, and I want you to throw this soot in the air, these ashes in the air. And let it become for dust upon all the land. You know, like there was a basically there was an explosion there in the Mediterranean at this time, and the sky just became black with dust. Remember when Mount St. Helens blew up and the dust falling in the San Joaquin Valley and all over the place, thousands of miles from Mount St. Helens, so this is what was happening. But God just magnifies this now, he magnifies this. Upon all the land, call Eretz of Mithraim, all the land of Mithraim, and let it become upon mankind, ha'adam, upon the human race, and upon the cattle, the larger cattle here it is, bi-hab-bi-hamah, lish-shin-perad, perah, lish-pin-perah, for an ulcer, for a boil, for a breaking out, boils, blisters, in all the land of Egypt. Now, this is a staph infection. There are several people in this valley that have died from staph infection. Did you know that? Or the results of staph infection over the years. Now, God is gonna allow staph infection. Staph infection is a very infectious thing, isn't it? Very infectious, it's very deadly. and this staph infection is going to fall upon the land of Egypt. And they took and kept on taking this soot from the smelter ovens, and they stood before the face of Pharaoh, and he sprinkled this, he scattered this, Moses, and the heavens, and it became a boil, a staph infection, a very contagious blisters, breaking out in mankind and in beast. In mankind and beast, these boils, the staph infection. Many times a boil, I remember when I was a young boy growing up, and I had a few of my friends that had these boils. And these boils are from a infection in their bloodstream. And I remember one of them. He had a boil up here on his arm, and he would sit there, and he would push in a blood vein, and he'd push it, and this stuff would just start coming out of this boil up there. And to squeeze it, it'd just keep on coming out and coming out and coming out. And they didn't really know a lot about this, but basically a boil is a type of staph infection. Fever blisters are a type of herpes, many times. These are some very contagious diseases. And not, they were able, now remember, these are the Hebrew, God was Moses, and the Hebrew prophet was Aaron. And now we have the scribes, the engravers, the educated ones, Janus and Jambres, basically, these magicians of Pharaoh. And they could not stand, they were not able to stand before the face of Moses because they were sick with all of this staph infection. They're sick. What does staph infection do so many times? You have a high fever, don't you? You have cramps in your stomach and your intestines and everything. This made them unable to stand before Pharaoh and before Moses. From the face and the boil, the hasheshishim, the boil, for thus became the boil upon the scribes or the engravers or the educated ones. And upon all of the Egyptians, they all had boils on all of them. There was no medicine. No medicine that could protect them from God's plague upon them. No medicine. In the world today, And this happened probably 20, 30 years ago. Do you remember when they were talking about, when a person was getting ready to die, that they would take them and freeze their bodies? You remember that? You remember that? And then they would wake those bodies up, they would put them in a freezer, and they would stay in this freezer in a, basically, in a frozen state to where they could, if they, when they had a cure for whatever disease they had, they were gonna wake them up and gonna live them, they would live again. Remember that? They were going to do this. Well, that's exactly what the Pharaohs were doing when they put somebody in one of those mummy tombs. They preserved their bodies so that they could have great pleasures in the afterlife. Well, they're not going to figure out any way in the world to get away from this blister that boils these staph infections. Even though they had I mean, in Egypt, the whole place was filled with tombs, wasn't it? And mummies. But not one mummy is going to stand up in the presence of God one of these days and stand up and think he's going to be cured. He's going to go all the way to what we call Gehenna or hellfire or the eternal hell. Without any hope of remedy, without coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and asking God to save them and forgive them for what Jesus did. The plagues in Egypt are a lot similar to the plagues in the tribulation period that we're facing here, maybe pretty soon, I don't know. Who knows when that's gonna come, but the plagues are very similar. And much of the society that we have today is making right wrong and wrong right. They're not going to escape the hand of God in any way. As God sent these plagues upon Egypt in time past, hell is a constant reminder of God's judgment. Hell is a necessity in all reality. There can be no real justice without hell, can there? and no real reward without heaven. You can choose between heaven and hell, between judgment and the love of God, but the grace of God. Our father, we send this message out again for your honor and glory. I pray that you touch people's lives and hearts and with the power of your grace and your salvation and help people to flee from the wrath to come. Father, please forgive me for I fail you. Use your word throughout the world. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.