If it wasn't for your lies and distortions you would have nothing.
Pharaoh was going to give in to Moses and god hardened his heart against Moses and his people.
IOW, your prick of a god wanted to kill babies and the first born so badly that he changed a positive situation for Moses to a negative one.
Is that what you would have done if god?
Are you that blood thirsty?
Regards
DL
It's simple, arrogance bars the way.
Having the hart hardened, is "just desserts" for choosing to persist in supreme arrogance, like the Pharaoh had done and proven himself to be, over and over already.
The pharaoh, previously, told the midwives to kill all the male Hebrew babies, and only save the female ones alive:
Exodus
1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live.
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
He didn't have a humble heart towards God, but was extremely arrogant, just like Lucifer/Satan:
Exodus
1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
So for this, and other things, he had already deserved to have his heart hardened, as this was now his Karma (sowing and reaping, cause and effect) for having been exceedingly arrogant, evil and cruel.
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the "I AM", that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I know not the "I AM", neither will I let Israel go.
On top of which, he was very cruel:
Exodus 5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Exodus
5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as up to now?
5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Pharaoh
deserved what was coming to him. He hardened his own heart, over and over, so, now it was going to work against him, by having it hardened even more,
for him, because that's what he wanted.
He had many previous opportunities to learn the easy way, but chose not to use them, and only got more arrogant and self-willed.
He also thought himself to be superior to others, in a big way, which b.t.w, is a
big no-no.
Insane Pharaoh saw
himself as God (just like Lucifer/Satan did), instead of recognizing and serving the One True God, and he was exeedingly ruthless and cruel, murdering babies of the Hebrews, to oppress them, who were his servants
He had proven, by all of this, that he was evil, and so he
deserved what was about to happen:
Exodus
7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth Mine armies, [and] My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great Judgments.
7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the "I AM", when I stretch forth Mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
You really should read the whole book, so you can see why you are wrong, and also, just HOW wrong you are.
The Pharaoh was made to taste his own medicine.
As he had done to others, so it was done back to him.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, THAT shall he also reap.
Arrogance BARS The Way
The History recorded in Exodus, is awesome.
Exodus
14:26 And the "I AM" said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the "I AM" overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry [land] in the midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30 Thus the "I AM" saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the "I AM" did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the "I AM", and believed the "I AM", and His servant Moses.
15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the "I AM", and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the "I AM", for He hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
15:2 The "I AM" [is] my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He [is] my God, and I will prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt Him.
15:3 The "I AM" [is] a man of war: the "I AM" [is] His name.
15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
