# 18 2024 Dev. Ex.2:10. Pharaoh’s Grandson! Read all of chapter two first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ex.2:10 “When the child grew older, she (Jachebed) took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son”
Ex.2.The book of Exodus Is about three main subjects: God’s deliverance, God’s morality and the worship of God. Ch.1 sets the stage, Ch.2 sets God’s plan into motion. The Egyptians become more aggressive by ordering all male infants to be thrown into the river.
We are being subjected to mass abortions in our time. How do we deal with it? We do what Israel did, we cry out to God in faith and we vote.
Vs.1-4 God chooses Amram and Jachebed, Moses’ father and mother, who put Moses in the river but in a basket. Although the passage seems to indicate Moses as the first born, in fact Miriam is the first born, Aaron is the second born and Moses was the youngest.
Vs.5-10 I suspect Jachebed timed the time and place for putting Moses in the reeds in the river. Even so God is in control and caused Pharaoh’s daughter to find and want to keep the child. Providently, Miriam was close by and offered someone to nurse the child. What joy in that household that day! But in the end she had to give Moses back to Pharaoh’s daughter. We know very little about the next 35 yrs. but we can be sure he received all the education Egypt had to offer, law, engineering, and military training. He knew at least three languages, Hebrew, Egyptian and Arcadian, the trade language of the day.
In Acts 7 Stephen says: “Moses was great in speech and actions.” From non biblical sources like Josephus and Esubebius, early historians, we learn that most likely Moses was a military leader, common for children of the hierarchy.
Vs.11-25 One day, when Moses was 40 yrs. old, he went to see what was going on with his people. He saw one of his people being beaten by a Egyptian task master, I suppose he tried to stop him but he ended up killing him. This became known by the Pharaoh who was after Moses’ life, so Moses flees to Midian. Providentially, Moses runs into a unjust situation around a well, a lot happens around wells in Scripture. Moses helps the daughter’s of Reuel, a priest in Median, who had to wait to water the sheep even though they were there first. Moses rectifies the situation by driving away the offenders and watered the sheep himself.
He is invited to stay and “Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[c] saying, ‘I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.’”
“During that long period, (40 years,) the king of Egypt died.” During this time the Israelites continued to cry out to the Lord. “So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.” This chapter covers 80 yrs, it was a long time to be suffering. But God is working all the time to bring about the conditions for His Salvation. We need to remember that when our requests seem to fall on deaf ears, it does not. God is working all the time to bring about what He wants for us, always what is good. We may count on it. Praise Him!
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