In this passage God makes his power and efficacy clear. He is the sovereign God. This is not just among all the nations but upon the so-called gods of the nations. In fact, everything from Abraham forward, has been leading to this moment. In Abraham, God wished to prove a point to the divine counsel of principalities. This is of course, that they were not God. There seems to be a constant questioning of this, as played out in the book of Job. Through Abraham, God proves it by taking a single person who could have no legacy and then expanding it. The Hebrew people would be that expansion. Their exit from Egypt is, therefore, an indictment upon the sovereignty of those principalities. God is not merely a god. He is the God. He can take an insignificant man with a dead legacy and bring him life. He can then use that man’s legacy to overthrow every type of authority that this world, and the spiritual world have to offer. There is no magic that God’s magic cannot do and do better than the gods of Egypt. There is no power, even over death, that he cannot exhibit. He controls Death as if it is a dog, telling it who it can and cannot attack. As much as the Pharaoh is overthrown, it is the gods and idols who are truly out in their place.