Exo 8:1-32 Behold, I will Smite all thy Borders with Frogs

[Study Aired May 2, 2022]

Exo 8:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Exo 8:2  And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: 
Exo 8:3  And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs: 
Exo 8:4  And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. 
Exo 8:5  And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:6  And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:7  And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:8  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD. 
Exo 8:9  And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? 
Exo 8:10  And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. 
Exo 8:11  And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only. 
Exo 8:12  And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 
Exo 8:13  And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 
Exo 8:14  And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. 
Exo 8:15  But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. 
Exo 8:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:17  And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:18  And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast. 
Exo 8:19  Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. 
Exo 8:20  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 
Exo 8:21  Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 
Exo 8:22  And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 
Exo 8:23  And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. 
Exo 8:24  And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. 
Exo 8:25  And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 
Exo 8:26  And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 
Exo 8:27  We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us. 
Exo 8:28  And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
Exo 8:29  And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Exo 8:30  And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. 
Exo 8:31  And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
Exo 8:32  And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

All the plagues that the Lord unleashed upon Pharaoh and the people of Egypt are part of His judgment of the old man or the beast within. 

Exo 7:4  But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

It is through these great judgments that we learn obedience and therefore walk in righteousness. 

Psa 119:71  It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 

Isa 26:8  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. 
Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Today, we shall review three of the plagues – the invasion by frogs, lice and swarms of flies. All of these judgments which the Lord sent to Egypt led finally to the freeing of the people of Israel from their bondage. Each of the plagues accomplishes the purpose for which it was sent, although on the surface, it may seem that it did not have an impact on Pharaoh. This means that the Lord is working to destroy our old man when He comes to us with the brightness of His words. However, if we look at ourselves, the evil one may want us to think that nothing is happening to our old man. The truth of the matter is that it is being destroyed!! In the fullness of time, we shall see its destruction. This was what Job was referring when he said:

Job 19:26  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 
Job 19:27  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

THE PLAGUE OF FROGS

Exo 8:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 8:2  And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

The Lord’s desire to get rid of the old man (Pharaoh) within us is reiterated here in verse 1 where the Lord told Moses to tell Pharaoh to let His people go so they can serve Him. As long as the beast reigns within our members, there is no way we can please or serve the Lord. As we are aware, the Lord had sworn by an oath with our fathers – Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that He would give their descendants the promised land, which is our bodies. Knowing this, we must have confidence that irrespective of our circumstance and where we are spiritually, the Lord will put to death the old man (Pharaoh) in order for us to serve Him acceptably. 

Exo 6:8  And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

Heb 6:13  For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 
Heb 6:14  Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 
Heb 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 
Heb 6:16  For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 
Heb 6:17  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 
Heb 6:18  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 
Heb 6:19  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 

Having confidence that the Lord will surely cause us to possess the land (overcome the flesh to possess our bodies), all we have to do is believe in the strong hand (His judgments) of the Lord to accomplish it. The stubbornness of the beast, signified by Pharaoh’s resistance to let the people of Israel go from Egypt, brings us to the second plague or judgment in which the whole of Egypt was to be infested with frogs. Frogs in the scriptures signify false doctrines and lies of the evil one as shown in the following verse:

Rev 16:13  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

These two hundred million false doctrines and lies (frogs) propagated by false apostles causes us a lot of suffering and pain which leads us to our wits’ end and causes us to cry to the Lord for help. It is all part of the Lord’s way of delivering us from our old man (Pharaoh).

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 
Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 
Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 

Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

Exo 8:3  And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs: 
Exo 8:4  And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Exo 8:5  And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:6  And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 

These frogs infiltrated the homes and even the utensils for preparing food and water of the people of Egypt. This is to let us know that the lies and false doctrines we imbibed are not only through attending the physical churches of this world, but are pervasive in our environment and in our homes. For example, having free will to do what we like is taught in our homes and schools and is one of the main pillars of human wisdom. The frogs being in our homes also means that these false apostles have access to our homes through the broadcast of their programs on TV stations and other forms of media. This is what the prophet Joel alluded to as follows:

Joe 2:3  A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joe 2:4  The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 
Joe 2:5  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 
Joe 2:6  Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 
Joe 2:7  They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 
Joe 2:8  Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 
Joe 2:9  They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 
Joe 2:10  The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

Exo 8:7  And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 

As indicated in the previous chapter, the wise men and the sorcerers, collectively called the magicians of Egypt, represent the religions of this world (Babylon) and wise men (leaders) of this world. These wise men are whom Paul calls the disputers of this world.

1Co 1:20  Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 

It is no wonder that the magicians of Egypt could bring up frogs. This is the Lord’s doing. Through these false doctrines and lies (frogs), performed with signs and lying wonders of the evil one, we are caused to believe the strong delusion that the Lord sends to us.  This is to give the Lord an occasion to come with His judgment to destroy our old man or Pharaoh.

2Th 2:9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 
2Th 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 
2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Exo 8:8  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD. 
Exo 8:9  And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? 

Verse 8 indicates that Pharaoh was beginning to concede that he would let the people of Israel go but under the condition that Moses and Aaron take away the frogs. This is to make us aware that the old man or the beast within us is aware that the Lord, who had started His work in us, will bring it to completion. The old man (Pharaoh) is only buying time by coming up with conditions. We all at some point in our walk have experienced the old man within us making us think that if only our afflictions or suffering would stop or certain aspects of our situation are taken care of by the Lord, we would be able to serve the Lord wholeheartedly. However, this is a big lie of the enemy in trying to buy time. The best condition to serve the Lord is the current situation in which we find ourselves. This is what Paul said about it:

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exo 8:10  And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

Here in verse 10, Pharaoh said that he wants the frogs to be taken away by the next day (tomorrow). To this Moses responded that it shall be according to Pharaoh’s word. As we are aware, a day in the eyes of the Lord can be a thousand years. This means that dealing with false doctrines and lies (frogs) in our heavens is a process of a lifetime. Moses’ response to Pharaoh means that once we are called and chosen by the Lord, all the lies and false doctrines shall surely be removed from our heavens facilitating the death of the old man signified by Pharaoh’s promise to release the people of Israel after the frogs are taken away.

2Pe 3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Exo 8:11  And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only. 
Exo 8:12  And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 
Exo 8:13  And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 

Verse 11 and 13 says that the frogs shall depart (dies) from us, our houses, our villages or our people, our fields and remain only in the river. This means that these false doctrines and lies of the enemy shall depart from our heavens (houses) and from our fellowship of the brethren (villages). It also means that our walk in this world (the fields) shall not be dictated by the lies and false doctrines of the enemy. The frogs being confined to only the river (the river of Egypt and Babylon) is to let us know that the lies and false doctrines shall continue to prevail in the world system and Babylon.

Exo 8:14  And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. 

This is to demonstrate that when these lies and false doctrines are dealt with by the Lord in our lives, we shall produce an aroma for the world to smell. This fragrance to us is the power of God but to the world, including Babylon, it is the stink of death!!

2Co 2:14  But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 
2Co 2:15  For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 
2Co 2:16  to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 
2Co 2:17  For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Exo 8:15  But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. 

This verse brings to mind the studies in Jeremiah where the Israelites released their servants during the siege by the Babylonians. However, when there was temporal relief in the Babylonian siege, the Israelites brought the servants back to captivity. That is how our old man (Pharaoh) behaves. When we go through suffering and our old man is humbled, we are prepared to obey the Lord wholly. However, when we come out of the suffering, we go back to our vomit.

Jer 34:8  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 
Jer 34:9  that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. 
Jer 34:10  And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. 
Jer 34:11  But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

THE PLAGUE OF LICE

Exo 8:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 
Exo 8:17  And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:18  And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast. 
Exo 8:19  Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. 

Lice are parasitic insects that attach themselves to humans and feed on human blood. We know that blood is life. So, these lice take our life away. In other words, they put us to spiritual death. In verse 17, these lice came out of the dust of the earth which represents mankind.

Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

So, these lice are evil workers used by the Lord to judge us. This is affirmed by the scriptures as we see that the two creatures that feed on blood are lions and dogs. This is shown as follows:

Num 23:24  Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. 

1Ki 21:19  And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

1Ki 22:38  And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. 

The Lion in Numbers 23:24 represents people. The dogs symbolize evil workers in Babylon or the assembly of the wicked.

Php 3:2  Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Psa 22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

What this means is that the Lord’s judgment by lice represents the unleashing of evil workers who come with their false doctrines and lies and make us worse off (make us spiritually dead). They feed on people (parasites) and make them worse off.

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 
2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 

Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 
Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 
Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 
Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

THE PLAGUE OF FLIES

Exo 8:20  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 
Exo 8:21  Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. 
Exo 8:22  And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 
Exo 8:23  And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
Exo 8:24  And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

Flies are part of the broad insect family such as house fly, mosquitoes, locust, etc. According to Strong, a swarm of flies consists of various categories of flies. In the scriptures, flies are used by the Lord to judge His people. For example, during the time of the prophet Joel, the Lord used locust to judge His people as follows:

Joe 1:2  Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 
Joe 1:3  Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 
Joe 1:4  That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. 
Joe 1:5  Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 
Joe 1:6  For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 
Joe 1:7  He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

As indicated here in Joel, the use of swarms of flies is therefore to destroy the trees and grass. They destroy the trees by attacking the food source of trees (barking the trees white including the branches – Joel 1:7). We know that flesh is grass and that human beings are also represented by trees. The plague of swarms of flies unleashed by the Lord therefore represents the destruction of our flesh (grass) and that of our source of the word of the Lord. As stated in Exodus 8:24, the land of Egypt got corrupted because of the swarms of flies. In other words, our bodies become more defiled by the plague of swarms of flies.

Psa 78:45  He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Isa 40:6  The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 

Exo 8:25  And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 
Exo 8:26  And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 

Pharaoh urging Moses and Aaron to go sacrifice to their God in the land of Egypt is another way of saying that we should love the world while at the same time serving our Lord. When we offer ourselves to serve the Lord and at the same time, we cling to the world, then the love of the Father is not in us.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

Mat 13:22  He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

Moses asked Pharaoh in verse 26 that if the people of Israel sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not be stoned? This is a prophecy by Moses of what will happen to Babylon (the religions of this world). They will be destroyed by the people of this world (Egyptians) as they see that their sacrifice of abominations of this world does not bring them the liberty they had envisioned.

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Exo 8:27  We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us. 
Exo 8:28  And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. 

Our exit from Egypt is to be accompanied by a three-day journey into the wilderness where we can offer sacrifice to the Lord. The wilderness here is the world. Our walk with Christ starts after leaving Egypt, and the three-day journey refers to all that we go through in this life (desert or wilderness) as part of the spiritually maturing process destined for us. This spiritual maturity is accomplished through judgment. It is when we are maturing that we are able to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to the Lord.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

In verse 28, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron that the Israelites can go and sacrifice to the Lord in the wilderness, but they should not go far. This is to let us know the mindset of the old man within us. Sacrificing to the Lord and not going far means walking with the Lord but still conforming ourselves to the standards of this world which the Lord hates. Paul gave us an example of how serving the Lord and not going far is all about – we end up turning to the weak and beggarly elements of this world which keep us in bondage. 

Gal 4:8  Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Gal 4:9  But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Gal 4:10  Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Exo 8:29  And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Exo 8:30  And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
Exo 8:31  And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
Exo 8:32  And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

As Moses entreated the Lord to remove the swarms of flies, we are also to cry to the Lord when we go through suffering so that the Lord will provide a way of escape by making us able to bear the temptation. Unfortunately, when the Lord grants us relief from our suffering, our flesh, or the old man, (Pharaoh) has the tendency to go back to its vomit. As indicated earlier, Israelites went back for the servants when there was relief in the Babylonian siege.

1Co 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

2Pe 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

May the Lord grant us the grace to learn righteousness as we submit to His judgment!! Amen!!