Free The Deliverer by Linda Rios Brook Page A

Unbiased observer is the key phrase here, which there were none of in the audience that day. I have to tell you, I was sorely disappointed with the cognitive abilities of Moses and Aaron in their failure to identify the trickery. Pharaoh watched with a smug look on his face as if this were a perfectly legitimate contest. It appeared that his heart became harder just as God had said. He wouldn’t listen to Moses and Aaron, and instead, he turned and went into his palace.
    The demons laughed out loud at the puzzled expressions of Moses and Aaron. God failed to mention that part about how the magicians would appear to be able to turn water to blood as well. The crowd found better things to do and left, but Moses and Aaron stood there for a long time looking at the Nile and wondering what had gone wrong.
    It was seven days before anything else happened.

C HAPTER 6
    A FTER BEING PUBLICLY humiliated by Pharaoh’s magicians, Moses and Aaron didn’t venture out much during the next week, preferring to avoid the chiding of the Hebrews and Egyptians alike. Some of the demons thought it might soon be all over and Moses would head back to the goats. I couldn’t be sure what Moses would do, but I was certain what God would do. He would up the ante again.
    Just as I predicted, He summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘God says, “Let My people go so that they may worship Me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They’ll come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed. They’ll come into the houses of your officials, on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will jump up on you and your people and all your officials.”’”
    Moses swallowed hard but didn’t say a word to indicate the doubt he must have had about God’s new plan. Aaron was bursting to ask the obvious question but didn’t. I decided to help them along by projecting my thoughts Moses’s way. Other demons were always sending thoughts into human minds and seeing immediate results; I’d never given it a try but thought now might be a good time. I stared intently into his eyes and thought hard.
    Are the court magicians going to be able to do the same thing and make you look foolish again?
    No response. I couldn’t tell if Moses received my thought transfer or not. Since he didn’t repeat my question, I presumed he must not have heard me, otherwise he would have seen the wisdom in asking God whether the court magicians were going to make him look silly by making their own frogs. I myself didn’t know the answer. The ability of Satan’s minions to create amphibians had never come up before, although I personally doubted they could do it. I was still stumped over how they managed the snake trick. I wondered if I should dash back to the lair and ask about our ability to do frogs, but then I realized there wasn’t enough time. We were about to find out anyway because Moses and Aaron, without protesting at all, turned and walked right back to Pharaoh’s court.
    Pharaoh was busy with the scribes when the two entered.
    “So you’re back, my brother,” Pharaoh waved the scribes away. “What new entertainment did you bring me today?” The court laughed.
    Moses motioned for Pharaoh to follow him as he and Aaron walked across the room and stepped out on a balcony overlooking the city. No one else heard it when God whispered to Moses.
    “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”
    Moses obeyed, and so did Aaron. The frogs came up out of everywhere and covered the land. But, wouldn’t you know, the magicians did the very same thing by their secret arts.
    The frog-making question was settled, and it was a mess. There were frogs all over the place. They hopped out of soup kettles and salad bowls and bounced across lunch tables all over