Beloved radio friends, we greet you in the ever-precious and the worthy name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus. This is your Bible teacher of the air speaking, J.W. Graham Hall, giving you a hearty welcome to the continued study of God's precious and holy word. Our particular line of study is found in the book of Exodus in this present series of messages. We are considering from the early chapters of the book of Exodus the character of the world in the light of the plagues which God sent upon Egypt long ago. Again we would repeat, we believe with all earnestness and with the substantiating of the Holy Scriptures that we have a type of the world given to us in the story we find written in the book of Exodus in the land of Egypt. We have been bringing some of the great antitypes of gospel truth from these messages in the book of Exodus, reminding our hearts that where the children of Israel were in bondage and under the tyranny of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, we have the story of the gospel revealing to us that within this whole world There are myriads of people who are under the dominion of Satan's authority and power and in the bondage of sin. They need to be delivered. The story in the book of Exodus is the story of a great deliverance. We are thus emphasizing the story of a greater deliverance, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We again would quote the premise The gospel text that we have based our messages upon, taken from the book of Galatians, chapter one, verses three and four, where Paul writing by the Holy Spirit declares, Our Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil world. We would re-emphasize by God's grace and the power of His Spirit The world is a place where men and women are all in the need of deliverance. To be delivered from the penalty of their sins under the authority of this world's dominion to which they may be in servitude. And to be translated from the realm of a serpent, from the realm of darkness, from the realm of satanic power, into the kingdom of God's dear Son. We have been following each plague one by one, and recognizing how typical we have presented to one some of the gods of this world, the gods of Egypt long ago, together with conditions that relate to the world system even today. We now go to the tenth chapter in the book of the Exodus, where we begin the consideration of the eighth plague, and that is the plague that is called the Plague of Locus. May we be reminded once again that every plague was a visitation from God above upon the gods which the Egyptians worshipped. The Creator was unknown to them, though they worshipped the creation which he had made, and made gods as well as goddesses, out of many things pertaining to the literal creation of the universe. The plague of locusts we begin reading on, if we may at verse twelve and read through verse twenty. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt, for the locusts that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the haileth let. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night. And when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt. Very grievous were they. Before them there were no such locusts as they. Neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. And they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there remained none any green thing in the trees, or in the herds of the field, through all the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you Now therefore forgive. I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God that he may take away from me this death only. And Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord. And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. but the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go. May God bless the reading and the hearing of this portion from his word. Very earnestly, we do pray, it will be the Holy Spirit who will give us divine truth relative to this study that we are pursuing. As we come to the eighth plague that was visited upon the land of Egypt, we are reminded of what we find written in chapter one of the book of Romans and verse twenty three. For I would commend to you a reading of that context of Romans chapter one, which will give you very clearly and unmistakably the origin of the heathen gods. And in the account of that chapter we have the fact that men changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of even creeping things. The idolatry of Egypt consisted of worshipping and deifying all kinds of creatures, and they even changed the glory of the incorruptible God to be in the likeness of the creeping creatures that crawl upon the earth. And we may also state The Egyptians not only worship these creeping things, but they worship the sycamore trees, which were the object of visitation by the locusts as they ate every green thing. And they were the object of God's destruction, too, by the preceding plague, which was the plague of hell. As the opening of this chapter begins in the tenth chapter of the book of Exodus, We find God demanding through Moses again of Pharaoh the liberation of his people with the threat that if he still would refuse to humble himself and let God's people Israel go that they may serve him, God would send a plague of locusts upon the land. God also declared that those locusts would not only eat every tree and every green thing that grows in the field, But they would fill the houses of Pharaoh and all of his servants and the Egyptians. And there would be such a plague of locusts, such as never had been seen upon the earth before, and may never be seen in such character again. Now as we find the coming of the plague of locusts, let me read if I may, from verse twelve. God said to Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts. that they may come up upon the land of Egypt. For the purpose of eating every green thing, and every herb of the land, and even all that they hail, the preceding judgment of life. God so commanded the locust to appear. And when it was morning, the east wind brought the locust. They went up all over the land of Egypt. They rested upon all the coast of Egypt. They were their agreements. They covered the face of the whole earth, and they did even darken the land. And they ate every herb of the land and the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and not one green thing remained in the trees or even in the herbs of the field. This judgment of the locust was a judgment of resistless and devouring creatures. They devoured, which is the customary food of the locust, They devoured every green thing. Literally, we may declare, Egypt became a wilderness. It became as barren as the deserts by which it was surrounded upon its borders. It is said that locusts have been known to cover an area of one thousand miles. And when such a horde of locusts have been driven into the sea, They have formed a bank of bodies, dead bodies of locusts upon the shore, four feet high, and fifteen miles in length. We cannot magnify too greatly our comprehension of this great visitation of the judgment of locusts, that God covered the whole area of the land of Egypt with them. He drove them into the sea when the judgment was released. And thus we can recognize as from the incident that history declares, they have often formed a bank of bodies upon the seashore, four feet in depth, as well as fifty miles in length. And the Pharaoh's fear certainly was manifested at the end of the judgment. But it was only a temporary repentance. Now here we might also be reminded. Temporary repentance will not do. God wants a complete liberation of his people in the case of Pharaoh. But the moment the relief came, Pharaoh's heart became hardened, and he would not let the children of Israel go. Now may we repeat, this once again was a visitation of divine judgment upon the gods of Egypt. Now we shall, in the ensuing message, by the will of God, follow this truth through in a New Testament application, where we may realize that every green thing in Egypt typifies the prosperity of the world. But there is coming a day when God's judgment will fall conclusively upon man's prosperity, a prosperity that he has built up without God. But may God speak to us to realize these judgments reveal to us the character of the world in which we are living and which is hastening to the day of destruction. Blessed Father, we pray that the Holy Spirit will remind us we live in a world that soon will be visited by divine judgment. May men and women turn to the Savior before it will be forever too late. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.