A hard heart: Did God really hardened Pharaoh’s heart? Many people have been led astray by assuming that God was somehow unfair because they do not understand that the “law” of hardened hearts is related to the law of gravity IN PRINCIPLE. God put the law of gravity in place; however, if we jump off a roof and fall to the ground, did God make us fall? We know that we made ourselves fall BECAUSE we choose to violate a principle tied to God’s law.
A lifestyle of sin is what happened to Pharaoh with the result that God … overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: Psalm 136:15 This was only after God went to Pharaoh ten times asking him to let His people go, but with each encounter, and God’s extreme punishment, Pharaoh continued his hard-hearted refusal of the Word, often after a false repentance asking God to rebuke the plague.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. Exodus 8:15 Pharaoh refused to listen to the words of God.
And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. Exodus 8:32
