EXODUS
1-2
BIRTH
of MOSES
Key
Passage: Exodus 2:11-22
CHAPTER
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1
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CHAPTER 2
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Israel’s
Multiplication
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Pharaoh’s
Mistreatment
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Faith of
Parents
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Failure
Of Moses
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Faithfulness
of God
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People Prepared
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for Deliverance
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Deliverer
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Prepared
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for People
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OVERVIEW Exodus opens where Genesis leaves off:
with Jacob’s descendants multiplying in Egypt. A new ruler emerges who respects
neither Joseph’s memory nor the Israelites’ human rights. Though Pharaoh attempts
to kill all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is providentially spared and
raised in the very palace of the one who sought his death. At the age of 40,
Moses seeks to bring about the right thing (deliverance) in the wrong way
(murder) and spends the next four decades of his life in exile, tending sheep
in the Midian wilderness.
Our God
has a big eraser.
OUR
DAILY WALK The man sitting by
the desert well was lost in his thoughts. With dejection on every line of his
face, he felt much older than his 40 years. Moses was miserable – and with good
reason.
He
was the one man in all of Egypt who might have had a chance to bring relief to
his people. He had position, training, natural ability, and the desire to help.
But in one foolish act, he killed a man and forfeited all the advantages he had
hoped to use.
Satan
delights in convincing believers that they are of no use to God. And God
delights in building cathedrals out of rubble. Moses’ life needed
reconstruction, to be sure. But when that rebuilding process was complete, he
was a monument to God’s grace.
Where
in your life have you nearly given up hope that God could ever salvage the
situation? First, walk a mile in Moses’ sandals. Study his failures. Learn
about God’s patience in his life. Then find your own “desert well” to sit by
and meditate on the encouraging words for discourage disciples found in Exodus
3:10-14.
INSIGHT The Ark Revisited
The
same Hebrew word for ark (as in Noah’s) describes the vessel used by Moses’
mother to hide him in the bulrushes. Once again we see God delivering His
chosen from destruction by water after an obedient act of the faithful (Noah,
and Moses’ mother, who was of Levi’s lineage; see Exodus 2:1).
Playwright Janet
Irene Thomas
Founder/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre
of
Fine & Performing
Arts
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