“And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.”
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt. Every detail God promised in verse 18 comes to pass: the fish die, the river stinks, the water is undrinkable. The plague is exactly as described. The fulfillment of specific prophecy is its own form of sign — the God who said this would happen is the God who made it happen, and the precision of fulfillment authenticates the precision of the one who spoke. Revelation 8:9 records the death of a third of the creatures of the sea as one of the trumpet judgments. The fish of the Nile dying is the small-scale pattern of a larger eschatological reality: creation groans under the weight of human refusal to acknowledge the Creator (Romans 8:22).
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