It doesn’t usually rain in Egypt. They did not depend on the sky, but on the Nile. With Moses, instead of rain and blessings, they feel the harshness of the hail. Those who meet God’s blessings with coldness will be hit hard.

God let’s Pharo say in Exodus 9:14: “For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.” The grace of God is exciting. From verse 20 we read, “Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses …23 the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt… 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.”

The god of the air (Nut) could not help the Egyptians, the pharaoh feels compelled to speak of YHWH as the “Thunder-God” (Exodus 9:28). The earth belongs to YHWH (29).

Sometimes people say that if God only intervenes more clearly, then people will also listen to him. But the reports teach us that only a few took the right steps from the experience.