"For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth." Here are some things I have learned as a Christian from listening to various, Spirit-filled, excellent preachers of the Gospel: Pharaohs were worshipped as gods (probably their ultimate 'god'), just as they worshipped many other gods. Our Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was furiously angry and grieved at the Hebrews, His People, being subjected to the horrors of slavery and torture at the hands of Pharaoh's (presumably Ramesses II) taskmasters. The Lord God went about destroying Pharaoh's 'godhood', his name, his rule, and wiped out his entire army as the Hebrews shook the dust off their feet and their children probably compared the beautiful seashells they found on their trek across the Red Sea. When Moses cast down his staff before Pharaoh and it turned into a snake, Pharaoh's sorcerers and magicians threw down their staffs and they became snakes as well. But Moses' snake swallowed the sorcerers' snakes--showing that the God of Moses, the "I AM", was the one and only God. Ramesses II likely got a migraine and cracked some teeth from clenching his jaw in anger that day! The Ten Plagues that God struck the Egyptians with were to destroy any belief that these people (and Pharaoh) had in their specific, false gods, and to show that the God of Moses, the "I AM", was GOD:
