God tells Moses to go to Pharaoh again, but also reminds and explains to Moses what is happening. God knows that Moses is bound to find repeatedly going to Pharaoh and seemingly getting nowhere a bit frustrating to say the lease, so He explains to him what is going on. Similarly, in Acts we read of the Holy Spirit encouraging Paul to stay in Corinth (Acts 18:9,10). God understands what we go through.
Rather than being a negative, Pharaoh's hardness of heart was all part of the plan. It would act as an encouragement for future generations. How would this work? Well sometimes the opposition seems to be unyielding, but God can always ramp up the pressure more than the opposition can. No matter what is coming against you just now, God is well able to enable you to withstand and overcome it.
We tend to see the battle only in its immediate context, how is it affecting me now? Sometimes we need to look beyond this and see it in its wider context. God takes us through things not just for our own sake, but also for the sake of others.
Moses goes to Pharaoh and threatens him with a plague of locusts. The officials are quicker on the uptake than Pharaoh is, knowing that they are on to a loser here. Pharaoh tries to give a little, but will not let the women and children go, so the plague comes. As was becoming a familiar pattern, Pharaoh relented, only to harden his heart again later.
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