So Moses said: this is what the Lord says — about midnight I will go throughout Egypt. The announcement of the tenth plague begins with a time — midnight. The darkness of the ninth plague will deepen into the darkness of death at the deepest hour of the night. God Himself — not Moses, not Aaron, not an angel acting alone — will go throughout Egypt. The personal divine presence in the act of judgment is unprecedented in the plague narrative. The earlier plagues came through Moses' staff, through Aaron's hand, through natural mechanisms directed by God. This one comes directly. Matthew 25:6 describes the arrival of the bridegroom at midnight as the moment of reckoning and reception. Midnight is the hour when the decisive events happen — judgment, wedding, resurrection. The tenth plague arrives at midnight because midnight is when ultimates are revealed.

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