(Exodus 8:5-15. ) The frogs also were sacred. They represented transmigration of spirits from one realm to another. Being the sacred animal no one was permitted to kill a single frog.

(Exodus 8:16-32. ) Lice and flies were the third and fourth plagues. The Egyptians worshipped so many forms of nature - God touched them all. The land of Goshen where the Israelites lived, was exempt from the plague of flies (Exodus 8:22 ). The Egyptian magicians could only add to the discomfort - they were powerless to stop it.

QUESTIONS FOR GROUP INTERACTION

1. When God reiterated His command through Moses to let His people go, what purpose did He give?
   • Do you believe that you have been saved to serve the Lord?
   • What did Paul say when he first met the Lord Jesus on the road to Damascus, and was converted?

2. About the second plague, would you say God demonstrated that frogs, like all His creatures, were at His sovereign disposal and command?
   • Do you have an awesome appreciation of God as the Lord of all?
   • How are you affected by this truth when you experience the opposition of Satan to your service for God?

3. Would you say the copying of the magicians would hardly be discernable when the land was already covered with frogs?
   • Why were the frogs regarded as sacred?
   • Do you see how false belief disadvantaged the Egyptians in not being permitted to kill a single frog?
   • What are some of the obvious disadvantages to those who follow false teaching?

4. Did Pharaoh mean his promise to let God's people go, if the plague of frogs was removed?
   • Do you understand the purpose he acknowledged "so that they may sacrifice to the Lord" is the purpose why you are set free in order that you may offer yourself a living sacrifice to God?
   • What do you understand by this expression in Romans 12:1?

5. Did allowing Pharaoh to choose the time for the ending of the plague of frogs cause his greater appreciation of the miracle?
   • Did Moses feel vulnerable because a deadline had to be met?
   • Do you believe that when you take action on behalf of the Lord's purposes, and when you ask Him in prayer, the Lord will faithfully stand by your word as He did with Moses?

6. What was Pharaoh's reaction once the pressure was off?
   • Would you say that to harden one's heart is not to respond to God's demand s on one's life?

7. In the case of the plague of lice, God gave no warning to Pharaoh. Do you believe this was because warning of judgment in general had been amply given?
   • Or was it to show that judgment may fall suddenly on the hardened sinner?

8. In striking of the dust and it becoming lice, do you think in this instance a mighty creative miracle was wrought?
   • Would you say that the magicians failing to do the same, confirms a creative miracle?
   • Do you expect the working of miracles to be in evidence in defence of the gospel in these last days?

9. Do you believe it was God's mercy to Pharaoh that He made his magicians obliged to admit that the miracle was the power of God in operation?
   • Is this an example of God leaving those wilfully hardened without excuse?

10. Where was Pharaoh going when he was warned about the swarms of flies?
    • Where alone can any sinner find relief?
    • In which place was there protection from the swarms of flies?
    • In what ways have you proven God's wonderful protection?

11. What did God mean when He said He would make a difference between His people and Pharaoh's people?
    • What difference has God made between you and the unsaved?

12. Have you noticed that having said He would send the swarms of flies, and that Goshen would be excepted, that "the LORD did so." Are you convinced that what God has promised He will perform?
    • Have you faith of the Romans 4:21 sort?
    • Do you believe God cannot deny Himself?
    • What does 2 Timothy 2:13 say?
    • Do you conclude then that every promise, warning, judgment will be fulfilled?

13. What was the first compromise Pharaoh offered to Moses?
    • By saying "your God" is Pharaoh saying that he puts himself outside the company of those who worship and belong to the true God?
    • In Pharaoh's compromise do you see the subtilty of Satan who has no objection to the worship of God so long as they treat their religion as one of the many world's religions?

14. Do you believe that you should be as forthright as Moses was in rejecting compromise of your faith?
    • As bulls were Egyptian idols do you see this as setting forth that even the religious ways of the world are opposite to the spiritual values of the Lord's people?

15. What significance do you see in Moses' insistence in going three days' journey away to sacrifice?
    • Having passed through death in Christ, and risen to new life in Him, what sacrifices can you offer according to Romans 12:1, Philippians 4:18 and Hebrews 13:15, 16?

16. Pharaoh proposes a second compromise, that the people do not go very far away. Do you believe it is the will of God that you get far away from sin's bondage?