And the Lord set a time, saying: tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land. The appointed time — machar, tomorrow — is a recurring element in the plague narrative. God works on a schedule He announces in advance, another form of evidence that the events are not natural or random. Tomorrow the plague will come, and the next day every Egyptian will be able to verify whether Israel's livestock are alive and Egypt's are dead. The precision of the timing turns the plague into a publicly falsifiable demonstration. If the animals are alive the day after tomorrow, the plague was natural. If they are dead exactly as God said, on the day God said, in the geographic distribution God described, then the evidence for divine authorship is overwhelming. Daniel 2:28 says there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries; the God who sets appointed times in Exodus is the same God who reveals the future to Daniel.

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