Pharaoh’s advisor
Scripture
Reference: Exodus 7:14-11
Core Teaching:
God’s awesome power shown through the plagues.
Cast:
Hotep Seti
Hi my name is Hotep Seti, I am applying for the job of scribe. Nice
to meet you. Tell me about myself?
Well my last job was with the Pharaoh in Egypt. I was his advisor. That did not end well. I had to deal with a
pretty serious situation, and after that I realized I was not cut out for this.
Well it started with this guy named Moses.
He wanted some of our slaves to be able to have festival in the
desert. And Pharaoh, being the slave
driver he is, no pun intended, said no. So Moses did these plagues. First was the Nile
to blood. Did this impress the Pharaoh?
No! In fact so he wasn’t showed up, he had his magicians also turn water into
blood. Why would he do that? Why would he add to the plague? I don’t, he
is head strong. At the office we were
kind of hoping that if the Nile turned into
blood then animals’ blood would turn into water, that didn’t work so we dug out
water on the banks. The next day was the
plague of frogs; this was turning out to be crappy week. Again Pharaoh, not impressed. So he had his magicians make MORE
frogs. So now we had twice as many frogs
in Egypt
and they all died so that was a pain to clean up. The next day was gnats that, needless to say
was bad. Then the day after that was flies, which had me worried because now the animals were
getting bigger. I mean if it went plague of gnats to flies, then what? Plague of dung beetles, then plague of chickens, to eventually
plague of alligators, or elephants, or whales? If only the frogs were
still around to eat the flies it wouldn’t have been so bad, but no they were
all dead and reeking to high heaven. Then the plague of livestock: meaning only
that the livestock was sick, it wasn’t like cows were falling from the sky,
that one could have been much worse. So the next day Moses comes walking into
the palace just like every freaking day, I don’t know why someone doesn’t stop
him, goes up to Pharaoh and throws soot in the air like it was confetti and
walked off. I thought, “Throwing soot in
the air, this is a pretty minor plague, I mean the janitor could just clean
that up. But then the boils started. This made the hail storm
the next day really suck because hail hurts when it hits boils. The next day was locust; I was already numb
to insects by then so it wasn’t that bad. Then the plague of
darkness, which honestly, was kind of a relief since I didn’t have to see the
dead frogs, and dead livestock.
Then the big one happened: the death of the first born son. That’s when things got really serious. After
that I was pretty much out of there. I
can’t say I feel too bad for Pharaoh, he kind of deserved it. The average citizen hurting though, that
really stinks. But a good leader is
supposed to look after his people first, and Pharaoh didn’t do that so I
decided it was time for a change. I mean
Jericho looks
like a pretty safe city. Right?
Copyrighted: John Mello 2005