In Exodus chapter five, verse one, Moses and Aaron went to Pharoah to request as the Lord God of Israel told him to let the Israelites go to celebrate in the wilderness.
The exodus conflict in this chapter is between two gods: Yahweh, the God of Israel, and Pharoah, who in Egyptian religion believes to be an incarnation of the sun god Ra. Pharoah questioned the power of God of Israel. After all, Pharoah enslaved Israel and therefore had to be more powerful than Israel’s God. However, the ten plagues were the Lord’s method of demonstrating to His people that He was more powerful than any or all Egyptian gods; the Nile, the sun, and frogs, for example, were all Egyptian deities.
Pharoah disapproves of the request of the Israelites to go anywhere. In verse two of Exodus, he responds, ” Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?” When Pharoah sees two Hebrew men come before him to declare that their God told them to let the Israelites go, he must have been mad. He makes the Hebrew servants’ work rougher than it already was. However, each time the plague came, Pharoah did not let the Israelites go, but as the Egyptians and Pharoah experienced one virus after the other, he could not ignore it but face the God of Israel.
A family of four in a residential community was having difficulties and eventually needed assistance. They had a family friend come over to the house several times a week to practice their religion. They improved their place, upgraded their two cars, and neatly groomed their tree in the front of the house.
However, a windstorm made its way to the area, and street people in the zone did not expect anything serious to occur. Lightning struck their tree, cutting it off from the bottom. They could not fix the tree.