After the Israelites experienced considerable suffering, God appointed Moses to liberate His people from bondage. Moses had been born to Hebrew slaves and at a time when the Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, had given orders that no more male Hebrew children should allowed to live. To save the infant Moses, his mother made a little vessel of papyrus waterproofed with asphalt and pitch. Moses was set adrift in a basket on Nile River in an attempt to prevent him from being killed by Pharaoh's troops.

By God's providence, Moses, the child of a Hebrew slave - was found and adopted by an Egyptian princess, the daughter of the Pharaoh himself. He was reared in the royal court as a prince of the Egyptians: "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds." - Acts 7:22 - At the same time, God determined that Moses should be taught in his earliest years by his own mother. This meant that Moses was founded in the faith of his fathers, although he was reared as an Egyptian.

There was a man of the tribe of Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife. She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months. When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the river's edge. They stood some distance away to see what would happen to him.

Now Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe in the river, and the girls attending her were walking along by the riverside. Among the reeds she noticed the basket, and she sent the maid to fetch it. She opened it and looked, and saw a baby boy, crying; and she was sorry for him. 'This is a child of one of the Hebrews' she said. Then the child's sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and find you a nurse among the Hebrew women to suckle the child for you?'

'Yes, go' Pharaoh's daughter said to her; and the girl went off to find the baby's own mother. To her the daughter of Pharaoh said, 'Take this child away and suckle it for me. I will see you are paid.' So the woman took the child and suckled it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter who treated him like a son; she named him Moses because she said, 'I drew him out of the water.' - Ex. 2:1-10 -

Moses, a man by now, set out at this time to visit his countrymen, and he saw what a hard life they were having; and he saw an Egyptian strike a Hebrew, one of his countrymen. Looking round he could see no one in sight, so he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. On the following day he came back, and there were two Hebrews, fighting. He said to the man who was in the wrong, 'What do you mean by hitting your fellow countrymen?' 'And who appointed you' the man retorted, 'to be prince over us, and judge? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?'

Moses was frightened. 'Clearly that business has come to light' he thought. When Pharaoh heard of the matter he would have killed Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and made for the land of Midian. "Moses was 40 years old when this occurred." - Acts 7:23-29 - And he sat down beside a well.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's sheep. Shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses came to their defence and watered their sheep for them. When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, 'You are back early today!' 'An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds; they said 'yes, and he drew water for us and watered the flock. 'And where is he?' he asked his daughters. 'Why did you leave the man there? Ask him to eat with us.' So Moses settled with this man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage. She gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom because, he said, 'I am a stranger in a foreign land.' - Ex. 2:11-22 -

Moses' was exile of about 40 years was spent in the land of Midian (mostly in northwest Arabia) in a desert between Egypt and Canaan. In Midian Moses became a shepherd and eventually the son-in-law of Jethro, a Midianite priest. Jethro gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage; and she bore two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. - Ex. 18:3-4; Acts 7:29 -

During his years as a shepherd, Moses became familiar with the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula, learning much about survival in the desert. He also learned patience and much about leading sheep. All of these skills prepared him to be the shepherd of the Israelites in later years when he led them out of Egypt and through the Wilderness of Sinai.

Near the end of his 40 years sojourn in the land of Midian, Moses experienced divine revelation in the wilderness. This call was given at the "Burning Bush" in the wilderness near the mountain of Sinai. Moses was ordered by God to return to Egypt where, with Aaron his brother, Moses would confront Pharaoh and demand the release of the captive Israelites.

God intention to deliver Israel from Egyptian captivity into a "land flowing with milk and honey" which God had promised centuries before to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel. The Lord assured Moses that He would be with him, and that by God's presence, Moses would be able to lead the people out.

During this long period the king of Egypt died. The sons of Israel, groaning in their slavery, cried out for help and from the depths of their slavery their cry came up to God. God heard their groaning and He called to mind His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked down upon the sons of Israel, and He knew... - Ex. 2:23-25 -

Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up.

'I must go and look at this strange sight, Moses said, and see why the bush is not burnt.' Now Yahweh saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses, Moses!' he said, 'Here I am' he answered. 'Come no nearer' he said. Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your father', he said 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.' - Ex. 3:1-6 -

The mission of Moses............

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -