God instructs Moses to go to Pharaoh with the demand to let Israel go to worship Him, and to warn that if he refuses, frogs will overrun all of Egypt. The plague of frogs targets Heqet, the Egyptian frog-goddess associated with fertility and childbirth — what Egypt worshipped will become what Egypt cannot escape. Revelation 16:13 uses the image of unclean spirits like frogs emerging from the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet as a picture of the most degraded form of deceptive speech. The frog is not merely an animal inconvenience; it is the dismantling of an idol. Every Egyptian god named in the plagues is being systematically exposed as powerless before the God of Israel. The demand that precedes the plague is itself an act of mercy — Pharaoh is given the chance to avoid what is coming. He will not take it.

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