RUSSELL SANDERS
10-9-2024
THE LIFE OF MOSES – PART 1

The story of Moses’ life begins in the first two chapters of Exodus. Just as God told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 that his destiny was written in the books of heaven before he was ever born, so also was Moses’ destiny written before conception.

The Hebrews were in bondage as slaves in Egypt. They had at this time been in Egypt about 350 years. Their population had grown to somewhere between two to four million. Pharoah feared that they might revolt, so he decided to decrease their ability for population growth. He determined that the best way to do this would be to kill every Hebrew male as they were born. That would eliminate a whole generation of new “Daddys.”

He ordered the Hebrew midwives to cast every newborn male into the Nile River. This could also be seen as a human sacrifice to their highly revered crocodile god of Egypt. The midwives would not do it, so the male child population grew. Pharaoh rebuked them, but they defended their actions [Exodus 1:18-20]. God rewarded the midwives that complied by building them their own houses [households].

This background leads us into Exodus 2 which details Moses’ birth and his preparation for the work ahead of him, executing God’s plans as we shall see tomorrow.