Sometimes judgments come on men because of sin. Scripture Is full of such stories.
Mighty Judgments of God come on men and nations
who oppose Him, or oppress His people.
These are facts of life for Pharaoh, you and me, or whoever.
“For thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.”
Zech 2:8
About the Egyptian army that perished, Moses sang,
“6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power,
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you:
You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.”
Ex 15:6-7
But for God to support us, it takes some focus.
“But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.”
Ex 23:22
Sometimes even you or I may think to oppose or ignore God.
We are warned against smugly ignoring God and thinking everything will still be alright. We may turn out to be like the man Moses describes who abandons God.
“and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, …”
Deut 29:19
What might God do to such a man, a mere man like perhaps even us?
“20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse … in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil … according to all the curses of the covenant …”
Deut 29:20-21
Like Pharaoh, the beast, or you and I can be singled out
for curses until we are destroyed
We too are called to come out of the Egypt of this world to serve the Lord in love and in truth. We may think we have control of, or are due this or that, when really we may not due any of it. Rather it is God’s to do with as He pleases. Like Pharaoh, or the beast of later times, we may trip and fall in our delusions.
Esau was such a man. He was technically the first born, but lost it all in his arrogance. We should be careful,
“15… lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; 16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, as Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. 17 … when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.”
Heb 12:15-17
The warnings are not just for kings, or the beast of Revelation, but also for us.
Scriptures are from the World English Bible WEB, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901.