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To: gregor who wrote (2563)	2/9/2004 6:02:29 PM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5569

Pharaoh worked himself into a corner with God. I have been reading of how many times Moses approached pharoah and how many times Pharaoh changed his mind and how many times Pharaoh wanted time to think and how many times Pharaoh wanted treat Moses well and then changed his mind. That doesn't change the fact that God, before He sent Moses to Pharoah, declared that He would (and did) harden Pharoah's heart. He makes some for mercy and some for wrath. Plain statements from scripture. In the final analysis Pharaoh got what he deserved. God gave him ample opportunities and Pharaoh was a pretty smart guy. After all he was the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth at the time and had the best advisors and the best council and the smartest minds at his disposal. And what exactly did Saul of Tarsus deserve? He was the chief of sinners. If you are saying that God has no partiality among men and that Pharoah will burn forever and Saul is in heaven then there is partiality or favoritism with God. he was the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth at the time and had the best advisors and the best council and the smartest minds at his disposal. It doesn't matter. The deck was marked. God raised Pharoah for the purpose of showing His power. Pharaoh had absolutely no say in the matter. It was all of God. This is from AE Knoch on the hardening of Pharaoh's heart: The case of Pharaoh is the classic example of the chasm between God's will and His intention. His revealed will was very plain. "Let My people go!" It seemed to be fulfilled in the liberation of Israel. But no one who reads the account and believes it can escape the conviction that God's intention included more than His revealed will, and that it involved opposition to that will. This much might be easily inferred if Pharaoh had been hard-hearted enough to play his part. It is put beyond doubt by the action of God in hardening his heart. God's revealed will was limited to the release of Israel. His intention was to display His own power and glorify His name in all the earth. This is given us as a specimen of His complete purpose and of the process by which He will attain it. Mankind does not comply with His will, His saints do not comprehend His intention. Yet He uses both the opposition and the ignorance to effect His object. No doubt many in Israel were fervently praying that Pharaoh's heart would soon soften, and he would let them go. God's answer to their prayer was to harden his heart. They sighed for salvation. He wrought with a view to His own glory. It takes little imagination to picture this scene. Its continuous repetition during the first three eons makes it most important to our spiritual welfare. The same conflicting forces are at work today. It is quite conceivable how the saints would have managed the affair. They would have implored Jehovah to compel Pharaoh to let them go. Perhaps they would call a grand Prayer meeting for this purpose. Perhaps they would set aside a week of intercession. "We know not what to pray for" was as true of them as of us. Perhaps they would be "definite" in their petitions, and insist that He melt the heart of the king, and so remove his opposition. It is obvious that God could not reveal His intention. He could not tell Pharaoh that, while He asked him to let the people go, He really did not Want Him to comply, but desired to use him as a foil for the revelation of His power. This would actually make a mere machine of him. It was the ignorance of God's ultimate object which made the whole procedure real to the actors in it. They did not by any means feel or act as mere puppets, notwithstanding that each an d every one was doing precisely what was needed to accomplish God's aim. All evil and every sin reverses its character completely when we take it from the limited light of God's revealed will to the universal illumination of His intention. This is the reason that we do not hesitate to believe the Scriptures that all is of God. No sin remains such when completely illumined by His intention. It is a failure, a sin, and subject to dire penalties when man commits it, but it is no longer a mistake when it finds its place in God's purpose. The same act which brings shame and dishonor on the creature, when subjected to the divine alchemy, is transmuted into a source of glory and peace to God.. …………………………. godstruthfortoday.org