In Exodus chapters 7-12 we see God sending plagues to destroy Egyptians, their land, and their livestock. Most of this is a result of Pharaoh's hardness; Pharaoh's stubbornness. I think this relates so well with people nowadays as well.
It is said that we all have our own individual "sin issue". The one thing that we struggle with most in this world that goes against the direction of God. While we are caught up in that sin, we tend to pay very little attention to the things of God. Eventually He will begin to give sign after sign to try and make you see the error of your ways and repent, but sin blinds us, and we continue in our way until something more extreme happens.
If Pharaoh had seen the greatness of God's wrath towards his people after the first plague, imagine the damage that would've been spared. The Egyptians would've still had livestock, slaves, health, and most importantly, their firstborn child.
So what's the moral of the story? I believe what we can take out of this is simple, the longer we go being stuck in sin, the worse the consequences may be to us, and even the people around us.
P.s. I commented on Joshua Spell's "Back to Dust"
Well, my personal opinion about Pharoh's regection of God stems from their beliefs and culture. Egyptians considered the pharoh a reincarnation of Ra and therefore a god in human form. If all his life Pharoh was taught that he was a god then I guess he thought he could handle himself against the great I AM. The truth of the matter is that there is one true God that is all powerful and all knowing for the entire world and not gods of certian people groups; and the only person who was and is God is Jesus.
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