“Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.”
Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now. The seventh plague is announced with two unique features: it is the worst ever, and it is set tomorrow. The superlative worst ever establishes that the plagues are escalating toward something unprecedented. The hail that will fall is not comparable to any natural weather event in Egypt's history; it is in a category by itself. Revelation 8:7 describes hail and fire thrown to the earth in the trumpet judgments, and Revelation 16:21 describes hailstones weighing a talent falling from the sky in the final bowl judgments. The hail of Exodus 9 is the first in a series of supernatural hail events in Scripture, each more severe than the last, each announcing the arrival of divine judgment on systems that refuse to acknowledge God.
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