We're studying the book of Exodus. And we're about to come to the place where it is the battle of the gods. The battle of the gods. And it's quite a battle. Except the real God of heaven is the powerful, true, real God. We, on page 450, in the book, The Commentary on the Old Testament by Kylan DeLeaf, the Pentateuch. It starts there and he starts talking about the battle of the gods. Now, when Moses was rescued out of the Nile River, do you remember what was going on? Pharaoh's daughter had gone down there and she was worshipping the river and bathing in the cleansing, purifying, divine waters of the Nile River. Now, what's going to happen now is that first, one of the first things now, we know that when Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh's palace, According to the book of Jasher, the first miracle they did in Pharaoh's palace was what? Do you remember? They threw the rod down. But what did they do before they threw the rod down? They went by the two lions that were guarding Pharaoh's home and they turned them into puppy dogs. And they just became just little lap dogs. And they came in there just hopping around, everything. And these lions were, you could not pass those lions, but so they tamed the lions. And then they went in there and they threw the rod down. Aaron threw his rod down and it became a dragon, a leviathan. Not a snake, not a serpent, but a leviathan, a great dragon. fire-breathing dragon. The word Tanin is not Nahash here, but Tanin. And that fire-breathing dragon, Janice and Jambres threw their rods down and they became fire-breathing dragons, created by Satan. But God's dragon ate them and swaddled them up. Now, we're going to go to the 17th verse of the 7th chapter. and I'll read it to you from Hebrew to begin with, just to let you hear what it sounds like. ko-a-mer ha-zeh-bar v'gat, b'zot, that is, ti-dah ki-a-ni ha-zeh-bar hi-nei ano-ki ma-kei ba-ma-teh ah-sheh-r bi-ah-dee ahl ha-mayim ah-sheh-r bi-ar We, Nafi, Ku, Lidon. And in this manner, says Jehovah. Now I put down the word Ha-the-var there because we don't have to say the word Jehovah. So I say Ha-the-var, which means the word. Now in the New Testament in John 1 and 1, it says N-R-K-A-N-H-O-L-O-G-O-S. In beginning, kept on being the word. Okay? The word. That's Hebraism there. And so here we have this Jehovah, and we don't pronounce it because we don't know how, but we'll just call him Ha-the-Bar, the word. In this, you shall know, you shall keep on knowing, that I, Jehovah, behold, I am about to be striking with a rod Now, where was the power? Where was the power for all the miracles? In the rod. In Aaron's rod, or Moses' rod, or Adam's rod, or God's rod. We know, according to the books of Joshua, it had been passed down. And that rod was in Jethro's garden out there, and no one could pull it out of the ground, except when Moses comes by, he just pulls it up, like the sword and the stone. And he went up there and on Mount Sinai, God told him to throw the rod down and it became a serpent. And the hush. But when they throw it down in Pharaoh's house, it became a dragon. More powerful, outstanding. Beyond any, you know, a serpent is basically the same shape as a rod. But a dragon is a whole different story now. That's a gigantic miracle. Now he said, I'll be striking with a rod which is in your hand. God's going to strike through the rod upon the waters which are in the river and they shall be turned to blood. Lidam is what it is. Unto or like blood. And they shall be turned like blood. Now, the river is a God, isn't it? The Nile River is a god. Now he's going to strike the Nile River. Now, they did have red tides. Remember, Marilyn, when we used to go out in the ocean, sometimes there was red tide. What they called red tide. The Nile did have a red tide, which is algae and everything, but not in this immense way. God took some natural things and absolutely exaggerated them beyond doubt that it had become a miracle, a sign. וְהַדָּגָּה עַשִׂר בְּיָּר תָּמְוּת עַבָּש And the fish. וְהַדָּגָּה The dog. The word dog in Hebrew is fish. Dagon was the fish god, okay? Dagon. and the fish, wee-ha-da-da, which, in the river, each one of these fish, they're all called feminine, whether they're masculine or feminine, because they multiply. Greatly, fish greatly multiply. And she shall die, and keep on dying, and shall stink the river. Now, I'm gonna make this river, which are purifying waters, into a cesspool. and a graveyard. Now when the waters are turned into blood, the fish are going to die. Up here at Mono Lake, not too far from here, about probably 80 miles, 70 miles from here maybe, there are no fish in that lake because it's heavy saline. But there are other animals in there. and what we call saltwater shrimp, brine shrimp. The Indians used to come all the way out here from the east coast and travel on the roads, the highways of the plains, and come out here and do trading, and they loved those brine shrimp, and they'd take and trade for them. So now this river, all the natural habitat of their life, and all the fish that they were eating, And all of the other delicacies that grew by the edge of the Nile River is all going to die. And the River God is going to be helpless. The River God will be helpless in the power of God. And God shall, the battle of the gods, the first battle is that God of heaven is stronger than the Nile River that has given them life for millennia. And the river, and they shall become weary, the Egyptians. The Egyptians shall become weary. They'll be worn out. Worn out. to drinking the water. They'll be worn out. They won't be able to drink their water from the river. Remember, cleanliness was an absolute necessity for the Egyptians. They took baths every day, sometimes twice a day. They shaved their bodies. They shaved their faces. They were very clean. Now, the water that cleansed them is gonna be their enemy. It won't cleanse them, it'll make them dirtier. We just went down to Old River, our other old place down there, and the well water down there is not good. Let's put it that way. You go in there and try to take a shower, and the soap won't even lather at all, and the water comes out of there, it smells like iron, just like old rusty pipes. I'm always ready to come back home up here and take a shower in this clean water. Well, the water there, the Nile River, was terrible. It had now become a stink hole. It says, and the fish, we hadiga, which are in the river, they shall die. And the river, he shall stink. The river, he shall stink. And they shall become weary, the Egyptians, from drinking the waters. They're gonna try to strain the water. They're gonna go out. You know, when you're real close to a big river, you can dig, down here, our creek right down here, I went out down there with the auger, and I drilled a hole about six feet away from that creek and water come up. The water level is real high there, and the water came up and I planted my trees there in the water. And so they got water all the time. I don't have to water those trees at all. Now, on the Nile River, it's the same way. Here we have all this marshland around here around the delta of the Nile, and they're out there digging holes, trying to get clean water, but in the holes It's also bloody water. They're just wearing themselves, digging holes, digging holes, digging holes, trying to get a clear drink of water. I remember a long time ago reading a book about Colonel Baker when he went into what is now Baker's Field. It was a great big swamp land up there. Swamp land all over the place, but the swamp land stunk and it was full of malaria, well, full of mosquitoes and malaria. And he came upon the valley and he said, water, water, water everywhere, but not a single drink. Water, water, water everywhere, but not a single cup of water. They were drinking water that was full of tadpole, or little wigglies. And of course, that wasn't good for you. all the way up to the Tatchabees. Well, they went up into the Tatchabees. And they got up there and they started digging holes up there. And some of that was a swamp land. And when they dig holes and hear it come out, there would be wigglies in that also. Good flowing spring water is life-giving. The Nile River had been a life-giving waters, waters of life, but now it was waters of death. Wayomer Hadabar El Moshe Yimor. El Aharon Ka Matika Yonita Yodika Al Mimmi Mithraim El Naharotam. El Ya'arim W'al Aga Mimim W'al Ka Mikwe Mimim We Yehudam, we Hayadam, we call Eretz Mithraim. Yuvah Eytrim, Yuvah Avinim. And he said and kept on saying Jehovah, or Hadwar, unto Moses, Moshe. Remember what Moses means? It means to rescue. or to draw out. And keep on saying this. This is what you keep on saying unto Aaron. Now remember, Aaron was going to be a prophet and Moses was going to be like God. Now you keep on telling this, Moses, you keep on telling this unto Aaron. El haharon. Take your staff, actually God's staff, and you stretch out your hand El Meme, upon the waters. Me, me in Hebrew, or Mayim means waters. You stretch your hand upon El, that preposition there, upon the waters of Egypt, upon Naharotam, upon their rivers, streams. Every stream would turn to blood. Every little spring coming out from here and there and all of the tributaries to the Nile would turn to blood. They're underground springs in this large river. You go up here and sometimes these creeks will go down there and they get really small and then you go down another mile or so and they're bigger and got a bigger stream. because there's tributaries all along, springs coming out of the ground you don't even know about. Well, there were many streams and there's rivers, Naharatom, underground springs, flowing wells, deep underground springs that were flowing up from the bottom of the river that you don't even know about. In the Sea of Galilee, When the Jews got back into the land, they went into the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. And Sharon, I know you've been to the Dead Sea, surely. That water is really, really saline. It is really heavy salt and minerals in that water, in the Dead Sea. Nothing can grow in there. You can go out there and just get your bathing suit on and jump out there and lay on top of the waters. The waters were so heavy that you'd lay upon the waters. They're solid almost, so to speak. Now, the waters coming from the Sea of Galilee would carry water then. Now, the Sea of Galilee is below sea level. And the Mediterranean Sea is out there. And here it's several hundred feet below sea level. You can fly a jet airplane all the way from the Dead Sea all the way up to the Sea of Galilee and fly that airplane under sea level, below sea level. Now, the Sea of Galilee had saltwater springs coming up from the bottom of it. And the Jewish people, when they went there, and they went out and they sent skin divers down, and some places it's 600 feet deep, the Sea of Galilee is, and they sent exploration things, they went down there, and then they cemented off those springs of water that was saltwater springs. so the water could be used for irrigation all along the Jordan River. Now, all of the tributaries coming into the Nile River have now become blood, bloody water. There was a lead tie many times, but the red tie only affected the Nile River itself, not the tributaries. There was red tide many times in the Nile River in the past for hundreds of years, but never through those springs coming into the Nile River was it red tide. Fresh water always went in there and they could always go out there and dig a hole out there away from the river and get fresh water, but not this time. The deity of the Nile River was struck dead. God conquered the deity of the Nile River. Now, the word Mitzrayim means a land of red mud and canal banks, doesn't it? Well, it's going to be a land of red water and canal banks. It was an irrigated land. And this blood will be over their canals and over their reservoirs, their pools, and over every collection of their waters, every tributary Every little pond is going to be full of blood. If that happened here in Fish Lake Valley, the creek that comes by our house here is Chattavich Creek, Middle Creek, and Davis Creek. Now, the miracle that was performed here would turn every one of those tributaries into a red tide or bloody water. Now this river, creek that we have here, goes down to the Arlemont Ranch, and on the Arlemont Ranch there's two great big pools down there that they, they were lakes there at one time, but they deepened them, and they blocked them up, and then they would irrigate their farmland, 2,000 acres, with those creeks, with those ponds, or pools, or reservoirs. Now, the miracle, like we have here, will turn all of that water into blood. And all the collection of the waters, they shall become, for themselves, blood. Third person masculine plural, Kal Juseph. Juseph means it's middle voice. It shall happen, the rivers, by themselves will turn to blood. And he shall become blood in all the land of Egypt. Now this blood tide or this red tide extreme here was only a foretaste of what would happen to all the gods of Egypt. When the rivers turn to blood, there's going to be a lot of bloodshed on that land. There's going to be a lot of dead animals, there's going to be a lot of dead people in that land. And in wood pots and in stone pots, the water in the house, where you've got a gallon of water in your house, it shall turn to blood. You will have no water that does not turn to blood. All of it will turn to blood. All of it, all of your waters shall turn to blood. Even your arrowhead waters in the freezer, or in the refrigerator that is. All of this happens. Everything turn to blood. And they kept on doing. in this manner Moses and Aaron, just as he had commanded them, Jehovah, Ah-the-Var, and he lifted up the staff, and he struck the waters, and the staff was the power of God, and water is the power of their deity. God struck their God. Bayer, in the river, before the eyes of Pharaoh, right down before his eye, Le'eneh, before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his slaves and his servants, Avedah. And was turned and kept on being turned to all the waters, Qal Hamaim, Asher Bayar Lidon. all the waters which in river to blood lead down. Their God died and he stank like he was dead. You know when you die, you stink. They have to embalm you and do all kinds of things to keep you from stinking. You go out here in the desert and you run upon a dead jackrabbit or something, you could smell it before you get there. Now their God is going to stink like he's dead because he's been struck by the God of Heaven. And the fish, which in the river, by the order, she died and kept on dying, had died. And the river, he stank. And not, they had been able, the Egyptians, to drink. Water, water everywhere, and not a single cup to drink. Just like Colonel Baker said when he came to Baker's. Water, water everywhere, and not a single drop to drink. In that time, in the middle 1800s, When Colonel Baker came to that swamp that became Baker's Field, they built a hospital there. The hospital was a malaria sanatorium. Now, they had a lot of doctors in Egypt and a lot of witch doctors and a lot of magicians. And the Egyptians were not able to drink the water from the river. And he became blood in all the land of Egypt. Verse number 22. And they did and kept on being thus, the scribes, the word scribes there, it is cha-tu-me, cha-tu-me, and that word means to engrave. These were the educated ones. The educated ones in Egypt, they kept on doing the same thing. What they needed to do was turn the water back into water instead of blood. But they were turning water into blood too. Imitators, Satan always imitates. And thus the engravers described the educated elite of Egypt in their secret arts. If you read the book of Jasher, or not the book of Jasher, but the book of Enoch, And you'll find out that the fallen angels came down and taught women and men how to do secret arts. Secret arts have the power of Satan in them. Demonic powers. Now these people here, these necromancers, these prophets, whatever you want to call them, false prophets, miracle workers, magicians, and their secret arts, and their hand was strong. The hand was strong and kept on being strong upon the heart of Pharaoh. And he would listen unto them just as he had spoken Jehovah. God said, I'm going to harden these I'm going to let him see all kinds of miracles, but I'm going to harden his heart and he won't let my people go. And finally, after all of these miracles, and I'm going to challenge every god that he has in Egypt, after all this happens, he's going to drive you out and you're going to get a lot of money to leave. He's going to pay you to leave. Egypt will pay you to leave. Now it says, why you pin? Why you fin? And he turned Pharaoh. And he went unto his house. What does Pharaoh mean? The man in the big house, okay? In his big house. And not did he direct his heart also to this. This was not going to change his heart at all. We are Peru, call Mitzrayim Zabiva. And they dug all the Egyptians around about the river. Remember what I told you. They're out here digging these little holes hoping that water will come in there that's clean water to drink. For not, they were able to drink from the waters of the river. And they were completed seven days after striking, after Jehovah struck the water and the rivers. Chapter 8. 8 and 1 says, and he said and kept on saying Jehovah unto Moses go unto Pharaoh. And you shall have said unto him, in this manner, he hath said, Jehovah, ha-levar, the word, send away my people, that they may serve me. Now, this in the Hebrew Bible, this is actually in the The English Bible is 726, but in the Hebrew Bible it's 8 and verse 1. Okay? And then 8 and verse 2 is 727. So, in the Hebrew Bible the chapter starts earlier than it does in the English Bible. And if refusing you to send away, behold, I'm about to strike all your territory in frogs. Egyptian God, the Frog God. Our Father, we thank you for this message. Please use it to touch people's hearts, to see your power, your glory. As we look in the world today, we see Buddha. We see all kinds of cults and isms. We see the worship of Mohammed in all reality. They say they don't worship but they do. Father, we see all these things, we saw all these false gods around us. And help people understand you are the only true God. And you proved it over and over again. To the Egyptians, to the prophets of Baal. And yet people go the wrong way. I pray that you touch their hearts with your word. Ask Him to call upon you to save their souls. And Father, thank You for Your Word. Thank You what it means to our lives. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.