What If Pharoah Had Repented? What Lesson Is There for Us?
Plague after plague and the heart of Pharoah continued to be hard. Finally, one last plague on Egypt. Would this do the trick? Was it just about allowing the Israelites to leave or was there something more that Pharoah could have and should have done? And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and 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. Exodus 12:30 (KJV) Makes you wonder how different things would have turned out, and even be today, perhaps, if Pharoah responded with godly sorrow that leads to repentance rather than the world's sorrow that leads to death. After all, look at the far different reaction to the preaching of Jonah in Nineveh by that heathen king. The whole city followed his lead in a very different sorrow, one that would spare them divine judgment. So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the g...