Exodus 9-11; Psalm 18:26-27; Luke 24

Exodus
9:1 - 5th plague - Disease of livestock - no promise from Pharaoh
9:8 - 6th plague - Boils - still no promises from Pharaoh
9:13-16 - 7th plague - Thunder and hail. v. 15 - God's message to Pharaoh: "By now I could have killed all of you, but I have let you live to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth. 9:19 - God warns of hail so Egyptians can shelter people and animals. 9:28 - Pharaoh's response: "Enough of God's thunder and hail! I will let you go; you need stay no longer." v. 35 - He reneges again.
10:1 - 8th plague - Locusts. After receiving the warning of locusts, Pharaoh's officials beg him to give in, so he relents and promises they can go -- but the men only, no children. So the locusts come, Pharaoh asks for forgiveness for his sin, the locusts go, and Pharaoh reneges again after the LORD hardens Pharaoh's heart.
10:21 - 9th plague - Darkness. After this plague (with no warning), Pharaoh promises again, but Moses wants to take their livestock. The LORD hardens Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh tells Moses he never wants to see him again.

Chap 11 - Warning of the 10th plague, but Pharaoh's heart is too hardened.

Psalm 18
v. 26-27 - Another part of this psalm that pertains to our Exodus reading today:

...with the pure you show yourself pure and with the crooked you show yourself perverse. For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

Luke 24 The Good News!
v. 11 - The apostles thought the women's account of their encounter with the angels was just idle talk. [Some things never change. They had to see it for themselves.]

v. 13 - Two on the road to Emmaus - I wonder who they thought he was. No introductions were ever made. I've always thought this was a curious insert into the middle of this story. Maybe this is explaining where Jesus was immediately after the resurrection. While his disciples were looking for him, he was on the road to Emmaus, instructing and amazing these two travelers.

v. 36 - Jesus appears to his disciples (apostles?). At first they are frightened. Jesus sits and eats with them, relates OT prophecies to what has just happened, tells them to stay in Jerusalem, leads them to Bethany, blessed them, and ascends to heaven.