He was probably the most striking of all the characters in the Old Testament. His mind-blowing journey with the Lord God of Israel made Moses one of the great stories in the entire Bible. As we read his story, we can only gasp with wonder as we visualize how God guided him step-by-step to lead his people from bondage and slavery to their promised land, the land that the whole world knows today as Israel.  Long before Moses was even born, the Israelites were in captivity to the Pharaoh in Egypt. Even though they were forced to be slaves, their ever increasing numbers worried the Pharaoh so much that he at once ordered all the male children born to these slaves to be put to death. Such was his fear that they would gather and overthrow him. It was during this terrible time when all the slaves feared for their male children that Moses was born. His mother who was a Hebrew (Israelite) decided to hide him so that he could escape death from the Pharaoh. After a time of three months she placed Moses in an ark basket and dropped him in the waters of the river. She hoped that the child could escape and be found by another person who will raise him in safety as his own child. It was the will of God that the child Moses is found from the river waters by the daughter of the Pharaoh himself. This was how incredibly Moses, a slave was raised in the house of the Pharaoh as one of them.  Sure enough as Moses grew older, he could not bear to see the sufferings of the slaves at the hands of the Egyptians. He once saw an Egyptian severely assaulting a slave. This enraged Moses so much that he killed the Egyptian soldier. When Pharaoh learns of Moses’ behaviour he decides to kill Moses. It was then that Moses escapes into the desert and lives there for forty years before God calls him to return to lead his slave brothers and sisters out of Egypt. It is interesting to note that God calls upon Moses to lead his people out of bondage only after 40 years. God appears to Moses in the burning bush. It is only here we see God directly talking to Moses. He instructs Moses to return to Egypt to rescue the slaves. God was going to lead them all to … [Read more...]