Why the Plague - Genesis 12-14

Genesis 12:17-20 (ESV Strong's)
17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

Why the Plaque

This journal entry was written while the world is quarantined to their homes because of the COVID 19 virus.   This “plaque” is impacting almost every country, nation and peoples of the earth.   Perhaps, not since the flood has there been a world wide impact.   In the above passage we see a local, or regional impact, COVID 19 incident.  It was put on the Egyptians, by God.  Why?  Because of the possible way the Pharaoh of Egypt might have interacting with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.  Now, part of this was Abraham’s fault.  Why?  Because instead of acting in faith toward God, Abraham lied about Sarah being his wife.   Pharaoh saw the beauty of Sarah and coveted her in his heart.  For that alone, God sent a plague on his nation.   The plaque was started by God.   He used a plague to correct the behavior of an unbeliever; a behavior that was enabled by the faithless man of God, Abraham.   We have no way of knowing why the COVID 19 plaque began, or how it will finish.  We don’t know the “why.”   We don’t know if God sent it to correct unbelievers and believer (as above).  Or, perhaps God simply allowed it as he allowed Satan to buffet Job with plagues.  We have no idea.  What we do know is that God does use these type of events in the lives of man to bring him around to God’s plan and God’s ways.  We may not know the “why” from a “cause” point-of-view.  But we do know the “why” from our response point-of-view.  God using this event, like in Abraham’s day, focus believers in on their faith and non-believers in one God’s protection of believers and God’s plan for the world.   We can rejoice in those truths, even when we don’t know the causation why!