How was he a villain? Remember the Egyptians were on Pharaoh's side and lived off the backs of the Israelites as much as Pharoah did. Also all the plagues could have been avoided if Pharaoh would have freed the Isrealites the first time, but he kept changing his mind and refused to free them each time God ended a plague. Pharoah had seen what God was capable of yet kept refusing him regardless of his own people. If a man comes to warn that a flood is going to destroy your town and the mayor refuses to let people leave, do you blame the flood, the messenger, or the mayor for lives lost? God said "Free my people or I will strike you and yours" each time, how many times before you look at Pharaoh's and say "he's proven he can do it, why do you keep testing him?"
First off those "poor egyptians" worshipped the same idols as/well as the Pharoah rather than the true God and likewise lived/benefitted off the abuse and slavery of the Israelites. They no more believed Moses' warnings than the Pharoah did. Second of all God's hardening of Pharoah's heart was after he'd already rejected the Israelite's freedom and God's warnings on several other occasions. If anyone rejects and pushes God away enough, God eventually can/will harden them from being open to him. It's not because he wants to show off or stop loving them. It's because God, being omnipotent and everywhere, can't really "go away" when he's pushed away so he makes it harder to hear/see/understand him. You're right that many suffered because of this, but rather than direct your anger at God, direct your anger at the Pharoh who refused to listen each time. He gives free will to choose/not choose to obey him, but does not take away the consequences of those choices.
@@rbj8387 first off, God. English omnipotent just shows that he's a cruel monster. He created Adam and Eve with the minds of children and sentenced them to death over eating a fruit that gave them the cognitive abilities to distinguish right from wrong. They didn't even understand they were naked until they gained real consciousness. Then we also have all the death and suffering to not just Adam and Eve but all life because of that decision. Really over the top and sick too because he somehow made animals ass plant eaters at first and then gave them the desires to feast on eachother. Let's also keep in mind that the every single slave that Moses freed, and Moses himself all died in the desert without reaching the promise land. God punished Moses to die in the desert because he hit a rock of all things too hard and then all the former slaves were doomed to die because they wouldn't commit genocide on the people that already lived in the Promised Land. So yes poor Egyptians who had to clash with a tyrant God. The God that drowned every single baby of all species on the planet in a flood.
