“And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.”
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: he and his officials hardened their hearts. The sight of the storm stopping at the moment of Moses' prayer is, if anything, more dramatic than the storm itself. Moses said he would pray, promised the storm would stop, stepped outside the city, spread his hands, and it stopped. Pharaoh watched this happen and hardened his heart. The hardening after direct observation of answered prayer is the most stubborn form of the pattern yet. John 11:45–48 records that after Jesus raised Lazarus, some believed and some went to the chief priests. The same sign produces faith in some and intensified opposition in others. Pharaoh's choice at this moment is the choice that has always faced those who witness divine power: will this produce surrender or hardness?
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