With God’s assurances and his father-in-law Jethro’s permission, Moses journeys back to Egypt, tells the Israelites that God is about to deliver them from slavery, and has his first encounter with Pharoah. In the actions of Zipporah, Moses’ wife, and in Pharoah’s response to Moses in this passage, we recognize those who, throughout all time, have refused to obey God or identify with…
July 23, 2023 Forty years have passed since Moses fled Pharaoh’s palace in Egypt and settled in Arabia to tend the flock of his father-in-law Jethro. Now 80 years old and “cured” of his former spirit of independence and self-sufficiency, God now reveals Himself to Moses from the midst of a burning bush, calling him to deliver the Israelite’s from their bondage…
Continuing in the book of Exodus, we look at the account in Chapter 2 of Moses’ birth and early life until, at age 40, he fled Egypt in fear of Pharoah’s retribution for killing an Egyptian to save the life of a Hebrew man. Pastor Kevin shows how Moses’ parents, in defying Pharoah’s order to kill their newborn male child, and Moses, in…