Dailey Thought Exodus 12:29-30 Firstborn dead!
Posted by admin on March 30, 2010
29 “And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. 30 So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.”
WOW! Talk about a literal nightmare. To wake up and find every firstborn of the Egyptians from Pharaoh to the lowest prisoner in the dungeon and even the firstborn of the livestock. I will have to check this out a little bit further but as I think it through for just a minute then I find the following.
It does not matter how old you are or how young, male or female, if you are a firstborn then you are dead. Wives losing their husbands, siblings losing their older brother/sister, and even a grand parent or two if they are a firstborn. As I think this trough a little bit more then I find that a granddad, a dad, and a son could all be first born so a family might lose all of their key leaders in a single moment of time.
We tend to think of only the new children are dead but the Word says all firstborn and does not, as far as I know, give an age cut off for death of thhe first born. When we think of it in this way it really blows us away.
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