SERIES C --- EXODUS FROM BONDAGE --- LESSON 03
I PROMISE
THE VOICE FROM A BURNING BUSH
From Exodus 3:1 –4:17
Moses had become an exile from Egypt, living with his father-in-law, Jethro, priest of Midian. One day, as he was taking care of Jethro’s sheep, he led them to the desert area near Horeb, the mountain of YHVH. There the Angel of Adonai appeared to Moses as a flame of fire from the centre of a bush. When Moses looked, the bush was ablaze, but it never burned up. [I must go over to the bush and see why it is not consumed by the fire,] Moses said. When Adonai saw Moses approach the bush, He called out to him. [Moses! Moses!] [Who is calling me?] Moses asked. “[Do not come closer,] the Adonai said. [Take your sandals from your feet, for you are standing on holy ground. I am YHVH the Elohiym of your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When Moses heard the words of Adonai, he covered his face with his hands, for he was afraid to look at YHVH. [I have watched My people in Egypt suffer,] the Adonai said. [I have heard them cry out to be free from their taskmasters. I am aware of all their sufferings and have come to free them from the Egyptians and to take them from Egypt to a large, good land flowing with milk and honey, a land now inhabited by the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. The cry of My people has come to Me, and I have watched the Egyptians oppress them. But now I will send you to Pharaoh and you will lead My people, the descendants of Israel, from Egypt.] [But who am I that You would give me this task?] Moses asked. [How can I convince Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave Egypt?] [I will be with you,] YHVH answered. [You will know that I have been with you when you return here with the people and worship Me here on this mountain.] [But when I go to the people of Israel and tell I them that the YHVH of our ancestors has sent me, and they ask me for Your name, what shall I say to them?] [Tell them ‘I AM’ has sent you,] YHVH answered. [YAHVEH, YHVH of your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has sent you. This will be My Name forever, through all generations. Go back to Egypt and meet with the elders of Israel. Tell them how YAHVEH, the YHVH of your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob appeared to you. Tell them that I have been watching their oppression in Egypt and that I promise to take them from their slavery to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey. They will listen to you and go with you to the king of Egypt with this message: ‘Our YHVH has met with us and wants us to go into the desert for three days to sacrifice to Him, so please let us go.’ [I know that the king will refuse to let you go until I lay a mighty hand upon him. So, I will strike Egypt with My hand of might, bringing it to subjection with My miracles. Then he will let you go. By that time the Egyptians will respect your people so much that they will send you away with many good gifts. Every Hebrew woman will ask her Egyptian neighbours and the Egyptians in her master’s household for articles of gold and silver and clothing for her family. You will leave with the wealth of Egypt.] [But my people won’t believe me or listen to me,] said Moses. [They will say that You never appeared to me.] Then Adonai spoke again to Moses. What is in your hand? He asked. A shepherd’s rod, Moses answered. [Throw it to the ground,] YHVH commanded. When Moses threw the rod to the ground, it became a snake. Moses was frightened and ran from it. [Catch it by the tail!] YHVH said. As soon as Moses caught the snake, it became a rod again. [When you perform this miracle, the people will realize that I have appeared to you,] YHVH said. [Now put your hand inside your robe over your chest.] Moses did as the Adonai commanded, but when he removed his hand, it was white with leprosy. [Put your hand into your robe again,] YHVH commanded. This time when Moses removed his hand, it was healthy again. [If they do not believe you or heed your first miracle, they will believe when you show them the second,] YHVH said. [But if they still do not believe, take water from the Nile River and pour it on the ground. When you do, the water will become blood.] Then Moses pleaded with Adonai. [Adonai, You know that I am not a good speaker. I have always spoken slowly and with hesitation. I’m still speaking that way, even though You have appeared to me.] Am I not the One who made men’s mouths?] YHVH asked. [Who gives sight or hearing or speech? Go! I will be your mouth and tell you what to say.] [Adonai, please send someone else,] Moses pleaded. Then Adonai became angry with Moses. [Your brother Aaron is a good speaker,] He said. [He is already on his way here to find you and will be happy to see you. You will tell him what I want you to say. Then I will help you both and show you what to do. He will speak for you and you will tell him what to say. You will be like YHVH to him. Take your shepherd’s rod and do the miracles I have shown you.
COMMENTARY
YHVH’S ROD AND PHARAOH’S SCEPTRE
Then YHVH appeared to Moses as he tended his flock. YHVH announced that the time of deliverance had come. Moses would be sent to Pharaoh to bring YHVH’s people out of Egypt. Moses hesitated. But YHVH said, [I promise to take them from their slavery to… a land flowing with milk and honey.] To encourage Moses, YHVH gave him many signs of power. Two rods were widely known throughout the ancient world as symbols of authority. The shepherd’s rod was a crude wooden staff, cut from the branch of a tree. But among the flock, it was a symbol of power, keeping sheep in line and protecting them from wild animals. After YHVH commissioned Moses at the burning bush, his crude shepherd’s rod became “the Rod of YHVH” as it is called in the Bible. In Moses’ hands, the rod was used for many miracles. It became a snake, turned the Nile to blood, created a plague of frogs, made lice and gnats from dust, brought thunder and hail, and caused a plague of locusts. Thus, the shepherd’s rod, which became the Rod of YHVH, was pitted against the authority of another rod; the sceptre of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. The royal sceptre was usually ornate, befitting the king and his throne which it represented. It, too, was a symbol of authority and power, far greater than that of the simple shepherd. Raised high, a king’s sceptre brought a judgment of life or death, depending upon the mood and will of the king. The Rod of YHVH in Moses’ hand, and the king’s sceptre in the hands of Pharaoh, came into open conflict. Two symbols clashed, one a sign of Pharaoh’s power, the other a sign of YHVH’s power. Only the greater power would prevail!
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Today’s Old Testament chronological reading is in Ezra 9 and 10.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Proverbs 23.
The New Testament reading is in Revelation 17.
Links to previous studies.
Ezra 9 and 10, Hebrew paragraph divisions, and thr repentance of the remnant
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Proverbs 23, Hebrew paragraph divisions, chiastic structure, and the rod of correction, not of anger
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Revelation 17, Mystery Babylon the Great
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Revelation 17, The mystery of the woman
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Revelation 17, Seven heads of the beast
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Revelation 17, Ten horns of the beast
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Revelation 17, Ten horns of the beast, part two
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Revelation 17, Ten horns of the beast, part three
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Revelation 17, Ten horns of the beast, part four
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Revelation 17, Ten horns of the beast, part five
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Revelation 17, Chiastic structures
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SERIES C --- EXODUS FROM BONDAGE --- LESSON 02
THE SHEPHERD PRINCE
BY A WELL IN MIDIAN
From Exodus 2:11-25
One day when Moses had grown to be a man, he went out among the Hebrew slaves and watched them toil under the hot sun. When Moses saw an Egyptian beating one of the Hebrew slaves, he became angry, looked about to be sure no one was watching, then killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. The next day Moses returned and found two of the Hebrews fighting. [Why are you hitting one of your own people like that?] Moses shouted at the man who had started the fight. But the man snarled back at Moses, [who made you our prince and judge? Do you plan to kill me as you did that Egyptian?] Moses grew frightened, for he realized that he had been discovered. [Surely others know about this, too,] Moses thought. Soon Pharaoh heard what Moses had done and made plans to kill him. But Moses escaped from Pharaoh and ran away to the land of Midian, where he stopped to rest beside a well. The seven daughters of the priest of Midian often came to this well to water their father’s flocks. While Moses watched them arrive on this day, some shepherds came too and forced the girls away so that their flocks could get water first. But Moses drove the shepherds aside and helped the girls water their flocks. When the girls returned home to their father Reuel, who was also called Jethro, he was puzzled. [How did you finish so quickly today?] he asked. The girls told him what had happened. [An Egyptian rescued us from some shepherds and even drew water from the well to water our flocks for us,] they said. [But where is this fellow?] Jethro asked. [Why did you leave him there? Go find him so that he may eat with us.] When Moses had come, Jethro invited him to live there with him and Moses gladly accepted. In time, he married Zipporah, one of Jethro’s seven daughters, and they had a son. Moses named the child Gershom, which meant -- Foreigner, -- for he said, “[I am a stranger in a foreign land.] As the years passed, the king of Egypt died. But the people of Israel continued to work as slaves for the new king, groaning under their bondage and crying out for YHVH’s help. YHVH heard the cries of His people and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As He looked upon His people in their misery, He knew that it was time for YHVH to set them free.
COMMENTARY
HATSHEPSUT: WAS THIS THE PRINCESS?
Moses was educated as an Egyptian prince. But he never forgot his roots. The New Testament tells us that when he was grown up, he refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose rather to be mistreated along with the people of YHVH. When Moses was about forty, he was forced to flee Egypt, and met his future wife by a well in Midian. For four more decades he lived as a shepherd in Midian, while in Egypt the bondage of the Israelites grew worse. One of the most fascinating mysteries of the Bible is the identity of the princess who rescued Moses and made him her son. No one knows for sure who she was, but there are two main theories. Some believe the princess was the daughter of Pharaoh Ramses II. If so, Moses grew up during his cruel reign and led the Israelites from Egypt during the reign of Merneptah, the next ruler. Others think the princess was the daughter of Thutmose I, who lived about two hundred years earlier. This daughter, named Hatshepsut, was married to her half-brother, Thutmose II, who became pharaoh when his father, Thutmose I died. Although Thutmose II was the pharaoh, Hatshepsut was a much stronger person and ruled the land as the power behind the throne. This must have created a quarrel between the royal couple, for at one point, Thutmose II wanted to make his son by a harem girl the next pharaoh. This would have taken the power away from Hatshepsut and any of her descendants. Since she had no children, Hatshepsut may have raised Moses to be the next pharaoh. This would have been sweet revenge, to put a hated Hebrew on the throne of Egypt instead of her husband’s son. Or she may have done this at a later time, after her husband died. Hatshepsut seized the throne immediately after the death of Thutmose II, called herself -- king, -- and became the only known female ruler of ancient Egypt. Twenty-two years later, her husband’s hated son gathered enough strength to seize the throne from her. Again, Hatshepsut had a motive to raise a Hebrew to become the next pharaoh. Nobody knows for sure, but these theories are as fascinating as the mystery.
Thought for Today: Friday December 23:
A refuge is a place safely out of harm’s way. A fortress is a fortified building that is virtually impenetrable by conventional means. Martin Luther wrote a wonderful hymn that says: [A Mighty Fortress is our Elohiym; a Bulwark never failing. Our Helper He amidst the flood; of mortal ills prevailing.] What a statement about the magnificent Power and Protect of HaShem! Does YHVH care for you and me? Can we turn to Him in trust and faith when troubles and temptations threaten to overwhelm us? YES! – A thousand times yes! What greater proof do we need than that He sent His Son Yeshua Moshiach to die in our place?
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