“And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.”
They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians — something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now. Moses delivers the warning and leaves abruptly — he turns and went out from Pharaoh. The comparison to what your fathers have never seen establishes the unprecedented scale of what is coming. Egypt's institutional memory stretches back millennia; the claim that nothing like this has happened in all that time is itself a declaration about the uniqueness of the moment. Hebrews 1:1–2 says that in the past God spoke in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken by his Son. The Exodus is the supreme Old Testament moment of divine speech; the cross is its fulfillment. Both are unprecedented, both are beyond what any previous generation has seen.
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