Who was Moses



Who Was Moses?
                                                                                                                                exodus   exdus   exodus
Moses means "Drawn," from the water =  "saved from the water"
 
Exodus 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
  • Here we have both man and woman of the priest line of the Levi
  • Moses was born of the priest line, Levi
  • Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
  • The woman conceived and bared a son, you will see in verse 10 this is Moses.
  • The mother hid Moses for three months
  • The number 3 means to form a plan, real, complete and entire, three earth ages, There are three divisions completing time - past, present and future.
  • Acts 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months.
  • This was God's Plan
  • Son = Moses was the seventh from Abraham, Abraham the seventh from Heber, Enoch the seventh from Adam.
  • Goodly = "beautiful to God" = divinely fair.
  • Hid him = This was "by faith".
  • Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
  • Therefore she must have "heard. "from God (Romans 10:17 and Hebrew 11:7)
  • All the steps taken (verses: Exodus 2:2-4) were the result of believing what she had heard from God.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
  • The mother could not hide Moses, she took him down to the river, put him on a ark of bulrushes, she laid it in the flags by the river.
  • Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
  • What is this flags
  • Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
  • 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
    3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
    4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
  • The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river;
  • She saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
  • Pharaoh daughter knew Moses was a Hebrew Child
  • The babe wept = Hebrew a babe weeping. compassion.
  • In that tear lay the defeat of the enemy, the preservation of the Nation, the faithfulness of God's word, the bringing to naught "the wisdom of Egypt", and the coming of "the seed of the woman".
  • Genesis 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Exodus 1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
  •  Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, call a nurse of the Hebrew woman, to nurse the child.
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
  •  The maid went and called the child's mother.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
  • Pharaoh's daughter is going to pay Moses mother to nurse Moses
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
  • Moses Mother, brought Moses unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son
  • She called him Moses, because, I drew him out of the water
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
  • Moses was grown now
  • Moses spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
  • After Moses killed the Egyptian, Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses
  • Moses fled, when in the land of the Midian.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • The priest of Midian had seven daughters
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
  • Moses helped the Median watered their flock
18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
 
19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
  • An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and helped us watered the flock
20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
 
21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
  • The Median thanked Moses, gave Moses something to eat and gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
  • She bare Moses a son, named him Gershom.
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
  • Pharaoh King of Egypt died.
  • The children of Israel crying out to the Lord, they were in bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • God heard their cries, and remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob
25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
 
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
  • Midian = A descendant of Abraham, by Keturah.
  • Moses was called in this land (Arabia)
  • Mahomet also arose there.
  • Backside = Would be the West side, very fertile.
  • First mention of Desert of Sinai is in connection with feeding a flock!
2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  • The angel appeared to Moses
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
  • God called out unto Moses
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
  • God said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob
7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
  • God talking with Moses about the cries of His children, in Egypt
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • God saying, I am come to deliver my people and take them to the land of milk and honey
  • Canaanites = 1. A tribe which inhabited a particular locality of the land west of the Jordan before the conquest; and  2. The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
  • What did God say?
  • I will send you forth to get my people out of Egypt.
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
  • Moses said, who am I?
  • He didn't know how he could do this.
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
  • God said, I will be with thee, and ye shall serve God upon this mountain
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
  • Moses said to God, How, what do I say?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
  • God said, tell them I AM THAT I AM, hath sent me unto you.
  • Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
    15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
  • I AM THAT I AM =  I will be what I will be (or become).
    I AM = I will be (speaking of Himself).
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
  • God said, tell them also, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you
  • This is my memorial unto all generations.
  • The LORD = Hebrew word God = He will be, spoken of by others. 
  • Compare to Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
    5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
    6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Which is  = continuance in time present; "which was" = continuance in time past; "which is to come" = continuance for ever.
  • The French, "The Eternal", is a much better rendering than Lord, which = Master and Owner.
  • What He will be is left to be filled up according to the needs of those with whom He is in covenant-
  • He Who becometh Saviour, Redeemer, Deliverer, Strengthener, Comforter
  • For ever = He changeth not.
  • Mal 3:6. He is therefore Israel's God to-day, as then.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
  • God said, Go and gather the elders of Israel together,  I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
  • After reading the two chapter, can you see that this was God's plan?
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
 
God used Moses - I will send you forth to get My people out of Egypt.
 
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
 
•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
 
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25
 
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