Signs of the Times, Book 1 - Ellen G. White

of locusts, he granted that the women and children might go also, but still
refused to allow them to take their cattle. It was then that Moses warned the
king that the Lord would slay the first-born.
Every plague had come a little closer, and had been more severe than the
preceding; and the last was to be more dreadful than any before it. But
Pharaoh humbled not himself. And although, when the first-born of Egypt
lay dead in every house, the rebellious monarch relinquished his grasp upon
his bondmen, yet, after his people had buried their dead, and felt assured that
the judgments had ceased, he dared once more to array himself against
Jehovah. His last act of rebellion, in pursuing the hosts of Israel to the Red
Sea, filled up the measure of his iniquity. This place was appointed for the
closing display of the power of God before the infatuated Egyptians. Then
were fulfilled the words which the Lord spake to Moses, "And against all the
gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord." The judgment of God
was manifested in the utter destruction of the Egyptian host.
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