DID GOD HARDEN PHAROAH'S HEART OR NAH?🤔😫

 

If you've read Exodus, you'll come across the part where God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Some of us ignored it while others hated Him (you know yourselves👀), but let's be sincere with ourselves. When we read Exodus 9:12, we all asked,  "Why did God allow them to suffer by hardening their hearts if He's truly a loving God?" Well, I'm going to explain why I believe He did so.

First, you must understand that God is all-powerful and glorious. His power transcends all human and spiritual understanding and cannot be challenged. We all know what happened to the last creation that dared challenge Him (I'm talking about Lucifer by the way🙃). Now that we hopefully understand the depth of His power (I'll talk about His power later) I'll dive into the explanation.

When God appeared to Moses in a burning fire, instructing Him on how to free His people, He said in Exodus 3:19

"I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all the wonders I will do in it and after this, he will let you go" (Pharaoh was really stubborn💔)

God already knew that Pharaoh was as obstinate as a goat and if you refuse to humble yourself before the greatest being that exists, He will humble you with His own hand. That was exactly what He did to Pharaoh. God hadn't hardened Pharaoh's heart the first time he was visited by Moses. He was acting of his own free will and yet, even after the signs and wonders (I believe the rod turning into a snake was cool) he refused to let them go, hardening his heart(Exodus 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw there was respite, he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.) Moses continuously brought his requests before Pharaoh and when those requests were rejected, the wrath of God came upon Egypt simply because of their stubbornness. God didn't harden Pharaoh's heart in a bid to simply just "destroy children and cities" (although He warned them🤷‍♀️) He did that to show His glory and make their generation and the ones to come understand, as much as their human intellect could allow His power.

Exodus 9:15- "For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence and you would have been cut off from the earth; but for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth"

This passage literally proves this and unfortunately many of us today are like Pharaoh. God tell us something, we "harden" our hearts and then when He decides to punish us, He becomes a wicked God.

Sometimes God decides to harden the hearts of some people to show his power and glory in and through them. He's not just loving, He's also a disciplinarian. Try and understand that if you didn't get anything I said at all.

Anyways thanks for reading😙

IF GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL AND LOVING, WHY DOES HE ALLOW THE EXPANSION OF EVIL IN THE WORLD🌍?🥲💔

"God DOESN'T love us. Why would a good God allow the murder of children, rape, cancer, diseases, abuse and other evils🙄. Where is this "all-powerful God" when evil occurs?"

Unfortunately, the majority of the world has this thought on their mind. They blame God for all the hardships and suffering they go through without trying to understand that there's a deeper meaning behind the world's corruption. 

When God created the world, he created it perfectly, with no blemish until the devil came and beguiled Eve and Adam. God gave the power to dominate the earth to man, but when man sinned, he gave that power to the devil. As the new ruler of the earth, the devil's purpose is to ruin man: God's beloved creation (No wonder in Rev. 12:12 it was said, "but woe to you oh earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows his time is short!"). 

Now you might question in your heart, "But why didn't God just destroy the devil since He's all-powerful?" The answer is simple and complicated. 

The simple part: He did it to save us. 

Now the complex part: Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil making them slaves of the flesh/sin. If they had eaten from the tree of eternal life, they'd be broken goods forever and how can God do this to the people He created? So He decided to send them from His presence. Now in God's presence, there's no suffering. That separation of man from God was the beginning of their suffering but because He loved them, He visited them from a distance because He cannot stand sin (If God could purge, He'll do it every time for sin🤮). Now as long as the people followed Him, they'll never encounter hardship but those that digressed from His way encountered hardships. God hasn't destroyed the devil yet because God wants a world where His creation, His children, will dwell with Him in harmony and free will. By going through the temptations of the world, He that comes out victorious will be worthy to dine with the LORD at the great feast in Heaven. In short, the devil is like a pawn that will be rid of in the end.

Again you might say, "But children are innocent, why do they have to die?" Well, except for the fact that most people engage in activities that endanger their children's lives (smoking, abortion, contraceptives), the reason was explicitly stated in Exodus 34:6-7 "The LORD, The LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness keeping steadfast love for thousands and forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of father's upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation" 

Generational curses exist and it's you, not God that's responsible for children's suffering. The moment you decide to dwell apart from Him, you not only punish yourself, but your generations to come.

God gave us the world perfect. Sin made it imperfect, made US imperfect. Hardships are for those who do not put their trust in God and in the case you do and hardships still come, continue to TRUST AND OBEY.

So for those of us that want God to remove evil from the world, He might as well start with us because we're all evil one way or the other🙃

Anyways God loves you,  just love yourself keeds😌😗😏