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From Slavery to Nationhood
The Cry of a People
The Cultivation of a Person
Moses’ Preparation in Egypt
Moses’ Preparation in Midian
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Even after his leadership setback in Egypt, Moses was still willing to champion the cause of the weak.
The seven unmarried daughters of Reuel, following the custom of that region, were shepherdesses.
They had come to water their father’s flock at a well, but some shepherds drove them away.
This injustice aroused Moses’ anger.
He rescued the daughters and even watered their flock for them (2:15b–17).
2. Moses lodged in a godly home.
Reuel (“friend of God”), was a “priest of Midian.”
Reuel is called Jethro in 3:1, a name which appears to be a title meaning “highness.”
He seems to have been a worshiper of Yahweh.
This is not surprising since the Midianites were descendants of Abraham by Keturah.
When Reuel heard of the kindness performed by Moses at the well, he rebuked his daughters for their lack of hospitality and sent them to seek out the “Egyptian.”
Reuel was so impressed with Moses that he invited him to live with him and manage his flocks.
Moses agreed, and for the next forty years he lodged in the camp of Reuel (2:18–21a).
3. Moses eventually married Zipporah, one of the daughters of Reuel.
By her he fathered Gershom (“sojourner there”).
The name of the child reflected Moses’ discouragement at being an exile from the land of his birth and from his people (2:21b–23).
4. Moses tended the flock of Reuel and learned the discipline of the desert for forty years (3:1a).
James E. Smith, The Pentateuch, 2nd ed., Old Testament Survey Series (Joplin, MO: College Press Pub.
Co., 1993), 251–252.
The Calling
Elaborate on this section to Exodus 4:17
The Confrontation
The Contest
Contents: Jehovah’s answer to Moses’ first prayer.
Covenant renewed.
Families of Israel.
Moses’ commission renewed.
Characters: God, Moses, Pharaoh
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity of helping and saving.
God’s covenants are as firm as the power and truth of God can make them and we may venture upon all His promises.
Key Word: Covenant, v. 4.
Strong Verses: 3, 6, 7, 8.
Striking Facts: v. 12. Disconsolate spirits often cause us to put from us the comforts we are entitled to in Christ and we stand in our own light.
If we indulge in fretfulness, we lose the comfort of His word and must thank ourselves if we go comfortless.
First Plague (chapter 7)
Contents: The Contest with Pharaoh begins.
First plague.
Water turned to blood.
Characters: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh, magician.
Conclusion: We see God’s almighty power, the unstability of all things under the sun and the changes we may meet with in them.
What is water today may be blood tomorrow.
Sin turns man’s comforts into crosses.
Key Word: Smitten (waters), vv. 1, 17.
Strong Verses: 1, 5, 17.
Striking Facts: Satanic resistance to God’s testimony of His Son is often offered by those who have “a form of godliness without the power thereof.”
The magicians finally failed, proving (8:7) their tricks “lying wonders” (Rev.
13:15).
Key verse
CHAPTER EIGHT
Contents: Plagues of frogs, lice, flies.
Pharaoh’s compromising offer.
Characters: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron.
If God be against us, all creatures can be made to be at war with us.
God can, as He pleases, arm the smallest parts of creation against men.
He may choose contemptible instruments to defeat one, that He might magnify His own power.
Key Word: Smitten, v. 2.
Strong Verses: 1, 2, 19.
Striking Facts: Pharaoh’s compromises are types of those Satan makes with the Christian.
“Be a Christian but stay in Egypt, or at least, don’t be so narrow as to come out entirely from the world.”
CHAPTER NINE
Contents: Plagues of murrains, boils and hail.
Characters: God, Moses, Pharaoh, Aaron.
The creature is made subject to vanity by reason of man’s sins, liable to serve man’s wickedness or share his punishment.
When judgments are abroad, they may fall both on righteous and wicked but they are not the same to one as the other in the final reckoning.
Key Word: Smitten, vv.
27, 15.
Strong Verses: 5.
Striking Facts: v. 12.
The Lord hardened his heart.
Before this, Pharaoh, hardened his own heart, resisting God’s grace.
There is a time when God gives one up to their own reprobate mind.
Wilful hardness is sooner or later punished with judicial hardness.
If men persist in shutting their eyes, God will close them.
CHAPTER TEN
Contents: Plagues of locusts and darkness.
Characters: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh.
Conclusion: God’s terms of reconcilliation are fixed and cannot be disputed or lowered.
Men must meet the demand of God’s will or God will permit their delusions and answer them according to their sin.
Key Word: Smitten, v. 21.
Strong Verses: 12, 17, 25.
Striking Facts: v. 11.
Godly men make a subtle compromise if they desire for their children, a position in the world, or (v.
24) if they fail to consecrate all their possessions along with themselves to Christ.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Contents: Last plague.
Death of firstborn prophesied.
Characters: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh.
Conclusion: Persistent enemies of God and His people will be made to fall under at last and those who have approved themselves, will look great in the eyes of those who have viewed them with contempt.
Key Word: Death, vv. 1, 5.
Strong Verses: 3, 7.
Striking Facts: In some way, God will always redress the injured, who in humble silence, commit their cause to Him, and in the end, they will not be losers by their adherance to Christ.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Contents: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover.
Characters: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh.
Conclusion: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely appointed substitute and its application to the heart once for all.
If death has taken place for us, it cannot come to us.
Key Word: Passover, v. 13.
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