Calender Events

In our family, we often mark past years by "The Ice Storm".  Our first grand-daughter was born that year.  We learned how to function without what we didn't have.  We stayed close together in the warmest room of the house, mattresses and pallets all over the floor.

I have no doubt this Covid-19 pandemic will be such a calender marking event.


It is interesting that it hits our life at Easter time.  Passover.

All those many years ago, there was a calendar event in Egypt.  For over 200 years they had known the life of slave labor for the Egyptian Pharaoh.  There had been nine different plagues.

Hapi was the Egyptian God of the Nile This Egyptian God was a water bearer.  The Nile river turned to blood.  All water in the Egypt was blood. So much for the power of Hapi.

Heket was the Egyptian Goddess of Fertility.  Heket the Egyptian Goddess, had the head of a frog. Their revered goddess did not keep the frogs from invading every living space, in their food, their clothing, their houses.  Wonder how they liked that frog-headed idol goddess then?

Geb was the Egyptian God of the Earth who supposedly reigned over the dust of the earth. But the dust of the Egyptian land became lice that infested animals and the Egyptian people.  God made man out of dust, it is HIS, and He can turn it into lice if He so chooses.  Geb has no say in it.

Khepri was the Egyptian god had the head of a fly. When Pharaoh still refused God, God used the flies that He had created, to bring discomfort and destruction.

 Hathor was the Egyptian Goddess of Love and Protection. usually  depicted with the head of a cow.
This time Pharaoh was given an advance warning and an opportunity to bow in obedience and repentance to the God of heaven who had already displayed His superiority to these so-called gods of the Egyptians.  He was warned that the livestock would die.  And it did, causing a severe economic disaster.  Still Pharaoh thought he was superior.

The sixth plague fell on the Egyptian people themselves, not just the water, land, and livestock.  It caused boils and sores.  Isis was the Egyptian Goddess of Medicine. The god of medicine is no match for our Creator God.  Nothing helped.  Nothing cured.

Nut was the  Egyptian Goddess of the Sky. Hail rained down and turned to fire as it hit the ground.  I wonder how many of the ordinary Egyptian people took refuge and escaped into their houses?  Ripening flax and barley crops were destroyed, the crops that were used for clothing and making spirits.

Whatever crop that was not destroyed by the hail was destroyed when the locusts were sent. Seth was the Egyptian God of Storms.  There was not a storm that destroyed like this storm of living chewing insects.  Seth had no ability to stop it.

Ra was the Sun God.  He was powerless to prevent the next plague...three Days of complete darkness.  Ra was the most worshiped god in all of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh, the ultimate god of Egypt.

Pharoah agreed to let them go, but they had to leave all their animals behind.  Egypt had suffered a total loss of their livestock.  Moses said no and the Lord pronounced the last plague.

Death.  Every first-born.  (I am the oldest child in my family.)

God made every effort, gave multiple chances, displayed His power over all creation, even Egypt's so-called gods.  And He made a provision to escape the death decree.

Passover.  The night the angel of death passed over the blood stained  door.

Passover.  The night pharaoh lost his son.

Passover.  The Lamb of God would be sacrificed years later so that death passes over me.

Hallelujah.