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Note, Satan does all he can to hinder those that serve God themselves from bringing their children in to serve him. He is a sworn enemy to early piety, knowing how destructive it is to the interests of his kingdom; whatever would hinder us from engaging our children to the utmost in God's service, we have reason to suspect the hand of Satan in it.
3. The treaty, hereupon, breaks off abruptly; those that before went out from Pharaoh's presence (Ex 10:6) were now driven out. Those will quickly hear their doom that cannot bear to hear their duty. See 2Ch 25:16. Quos Deus destruet eos dementat--Whom God intends to destroy he delivers up to infatuation. Never was man so infatuated to his own ruin as Pharaoh was.
10 And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let
you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did
desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
The invasion of the land by the locusts--God's great army, Joe 2:11. God bids Moses stretch out his hand (Ex 10:12), to beckon them, as it wee (for they came at a call), and he stretched forth his rod, Ex 10:13. Compare Ex 9:22, 23. Moses ascribes it to the stretching out, not of his own hand, but the rod of God, the instituted sign of God's presence with him. The locusts obey the summons, and fly upon the wings of the wind, the east wind, and caterpillars without number, as we are told, Ps 105:34, 35. A formidable army of horse and foot might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who then is able to stand before the great God?
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the
Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.