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Numbers 5 Apr. Numbers 6 Apr. Numbers 7 Apr. Numbers 8 Apr. It was too late to escape. Divided, they were powerless to overcome their masters. Year after year of miserable hard labor followed for them. By the thousands and tens of thousands they were herded over the land to dig massive water canals. Other thousands built stone banks to cover the mud banks of the Nile. Other gangs built great walls and forts and many pyramids. Perhaps the greatest number of them worked at digging clay and making it into large, heavy bricks.
Yet through all their misery, they continued to grow and grow in number! Pharaoh at last knew that working the Israelites in a cruel manner would not "Make those Israelites work harder! He thought up a new scheme, therefore. Before long a decree was sent out to all Hebrew midwives, the women who were skilled to The Israelites became so hard to handle that they were divided into slave gangs controlled by cruel Egyptian officers.
If you fail to obey, your punishment will be swift and terrible. Many of the Israelites knew at least something of God's laws.
Those laws had been known and obeyed by good men from Adam's time to the Great Flood, and from Noah on down through time. One of those laws said that no person should kill another person. The midwives knew it would be a terrible sin to take the lives of little babies, and they refused to obey the command from the Egyptian king.
When Pharaoh heard that he had been disobeyed, he was very angry. He called the head midwives of the Israelites to co me to him, and demanded to know why they hadn't done as he had told them. Hebrew women are stronger and more active. They give birth to babies even without our help. We aren't called to give aid, and therefore we don't know about most o f the births.
But because the midwives obeyed God 's law nor to kill, God gave protection to them. Pharaoh decided not to punish them. In fact, they were treated w it h m Ore respect than ever because the Egyptians wanted to know why the Israelites were so healthy.
So the midwives were given good houses to live in. But Pharaoh was not to be so easily returned from what he wanted to do. He sent out a new decree. This one went to his police and soldiers: "Watch the Israelites closely. Whenever you learn that a male baby has been born to any of them, seize that baby and throw it into the Nile river, Spa re only the female babies. There is no way of knowing how many little boy babies were drowned in the Nile river, but there must have been many.
The Israelites were filled with dismay. Their longing to become free of the Egyptians was greater than ever. But they were too well guarded to escape. All they could see was a dismal future of continuing to slave for Pharaoh. The Birth of Moses In those days a certain Israelite boy was born to parents who lived near the palace of the king of Egypt.
This baby's mother an d father kept his birth a sec ret for three months. During those three months they were always fearful that Egyptian police would find out about him, and would take him away from them and drown him in the Nile river. They were so anxious to keep him alive that they thought tip a fantastic plan to try to save him. It was actually God who put the plan into their minds, because this boy baby was to do some very great things.
We shall put our son in it, push it out into the Nile, and pray that it will float downstream to the right place to be seen and rescued. Verse 3. Meanwhile, the parents of the boy baby sent their daughter, who was about eleven years old, to run along the bank of the river and see what became of the baby. Matters worked out even better than the worried parents hoped. Pharaoh's daughter saw the basket floating among the tall reeds lining the banks of the Nile.
She called for one of her girl servants who could swim, and sent that girl out after the basket. Verse 5. All were surprised when they saw that a baby was in the basket. Pharaoh's daughter could see at once that it was an Israelite baby. But when she heard it cry, she felt very sorry for it. The baby's sister saw all that happened. She hurried along the river bank to where her baby brother had been rescued, and bowed down before Pharaoh's daughter.
The guilty party did not welcome Moses' intervention nor his implied criticism. Moses does not seem to have much support from the bystanders. The bullying Hebrew launches a two pronged attack upon Moses: a First of all he asks who gave him authority over the Hebrews? He had not been given such authority by Pharaoh and neither was he recognised as a leader by the Jews themselves.
There is a good deal of resentment in the accusation of the aggressive Hebrew. People who are fighting mad rarely welcome the intervention of outsiders. When my youngest brother was a policeman he rarely enjoyed being called out to domestic disputes.
He found it best to adopt a non-confrontational approach because otherwise both parties were likely to turn on him. It is not unknown when there is trouble in the church for a peacemaker to end up hated by both sides! Perhaps this is why Paul pleads with Euodia and Syntyche to sort themselves out and to agree with each other in the Lord.
It is highly likely that Moses was very unpopular with many Hebrews for his close identification with the Egyptians. He was privileged, wealthy and honoured. They didn't want him swanning around their quarter in his harry spankers chariot. Who was he to stick his oar in. It is a pity to reject interventionists out of suspicion and envy. Resentment blinded the Hebrews to Moses' abilities. They rejected him as their leader and had to spend another 40 years in slavery!
I am afraid people in all walks of life are rejected because of prejudice, bias, ignorance and self-love. Good men and women are kept down in the church and given no opportunity to use their abilities to the glory of God. It was the Bible believing religious leaders of Christ's day who fatally failed to appreciate all he had to offer. Jesus was an uneducated, unorthodox, scandalous Galilean of working class origins and as such was well and truly rejected by those who should have welcomed him as God's Messiah.
I know what it is like to be rejected as a teacher and preacher! The death would be noticed and investigated. In all probability the Hebrews would be blamed with ensuing reprisals. Moses becomes aware that the Hebrews would implicate him rather than take the blame for the taskmaster's death. They would grass Moses up to the Egyptian investigators to save their own skins. A report would be sent to Pharaoh. Moses realised that on this occasion he had gone too far and Pharaoh would punish him.
Possibly by this time his adoptive mother was dead and he did not have her to stand by him. He may have hidden the body but he couldn't cover up the crime. When he tried to stop a brawl his own wicked deed was thrown in his face. There is no doubt we lose respect when we are found out in some blatant sin. Old Eli lost the respect of his sons because of his gluttony. David lost control of his family after his adultery with Bathsheba.
He failed to discipline his son Amnon for raping his sister. Towards the end of my career I was taken less and less seriously by my teaching colleagues because of the intemperate way I made my views known. He spoke their language, wore their clothes and jewellery, drove a swanky chariot and inhabited a different world. I love the story in Dicken's, 'Little Dorrit' of the heroine of the novel coming to Mr Clennam in the debtor's prison.
Mr Clennam had been good to Little Dorrit when she was in the Marshalsea with her family. But their fortunes changed.
The Dorrit family came into money and Mr Clennam fell into debt. When Little Dorrit discovers Mr Clennam's plight she comes to him in her old, worn dress. It was her debtor's dress. She said to Mr Clennam: "I hope you would like me better in this dress than any other. I have always kept it by me, to remind me. God the Son wore the debtor's clothes, bore the sinner's debt and paid the price to set us free. Nor has he forgotten what it is to be human!
The apostle Paul knew how important it was to identify with people. He said he was prepared to be all things to all men that he might win some for Christ.
Hudson Taylor the great missionary to the Chinese was known for his sensitivity to Chinese culture and zeal for evangelism.
He adopted wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was rare among missionaries of that time. Fearful of reprisals from Pharaoh, Moses fled to Midian, a semi-desert area east of the Gulf of Aqaba. Although this cannot be certain! It is possible, based on the testimony of Reuel's daughters, that Moses travelled by chariot, armed and dressed as an Egyptian general.
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