Exodus 4:1-9
GOD GIVES MOSES MIRACULOUS POWERS... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD GIVES MOSES MIRACULOUS POWERS... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. The fear and anxiety of Moses here discovered another objection, that based upon the fact that the people were no longer accustomed to prophetic voi... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. Moses held his shepherd's staff in his hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. The serpent was no delusion, but a fact, and looked dangerous enough to fill the heart of Moses with fear.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his land;... [ Continue Reading ]
that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. The simple shepherd's staff, according to the will of God, became the instrument by which Pharaoh and his land were punished, for the miracle showed that God... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow, infected with the white leprosy, Leviticus 13:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. Thereby the Lord signified that He intended to cleanse His people, the children of Israel, of the spiritual leprosy of sin... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, to its unmistakable evidence, THAT THEY WILL BELIEVE THE VOICE OF THE LATTER SIGN.... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river (Nile), AND POUR IT UPON THE DRY LAND; AND THE WATER WHICH THOU TAKEST OUT OF THE RIVER SHALL BECOME BLOOD UPON THE DRY LAND. The Nile was given th... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue. The great fear of Moses now made him protest his oratorical inability. which made it impossible for him to do justice to the messa... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FEARS OF MOSES REPROVED... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? The excuse of Moses might have weight with men, but not with the Lord, who has absolute power over all the senses, being able to give the full use of them or to... [ Continue Reading ]
Now, therefore, go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. It was an easy matter for the Lord to impart divine eloquence to Moses, both as to facility of speech and as to choice of the most fitting words. All reasonable objections of Moses were now removed.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send. The misgivings of Moses were still so great that he wanted the mission to be taken care of by anyone else than himself. The weakness of his flesh was so overpowering that his words sound like a flat refusal.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said, Is not Aaron, the Levite, thy brother? The Lord implied that Aaron surely was more worthy of being called a descendant of Levi than Moses with his hesitation. I KNOW THAT HE CAN SPEAK WELL. AND ALSO, BEHOLD, HE COMETH FORTH TO MEET TH... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what ye shall do.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God, to make known to him both the form and the contents of his speeches to the people. As Moses, the prophet, speaks only what God commands him to say, th... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs. The shepherd's staff was to be a symbol of the divine signs which were to be performed by the hand of Moses. The Lord has patience with our weakness and does not expect too much of us, but strengthens us to remain steadfast i... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. The faithfulness, the sense of duty in Moses would not have permitted him to leave the flocks in the wilderness and... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES DISMISSED BY JETHRO... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, for Moses apparently delayed his journey even now, GO, RETURN INTO EGYPT; FOR ALL THE MEN ARE DEAD WHICH SOUGHT THY LIFE. This disclosure was intended to reassure Moses, to take away the last shred of his hesitation, although his mind had been made up even bef... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses took his wife and his sons, Gershom and Eliezer, Exodus 18:4, AND SET THEM UPON AN ASS, AND HE RETURNED TO THE LAND OF EGYPT, he started out on his trip to the country of his birth, AND MOSES TOOK THE ROD OF GOD IN HIS HAND, for so he regarded the staff with which he was to perform miracle... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand. The first commission was here repeated and explained, in order to impress every detail upon Moses' mind. After his return to Egypt he was to perform a... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is My son, even my first-born;... [ Continue Reading ]
and I say unto thee, Let My son go that he may serve me; and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy first-born. This threat looks forward to the last of the Egyptian plagues. The fact that Israel is called God's first-born son suggests, even here, that the Lord would lat... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass by the way in the inn that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. In the place where Moses and his family encamped for the night while on the journey, the Lord threatened to take his life by a sudden disease, because he had neglected to circumcise his second son, Eliezer. Circ... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, a stone knife, AND CUT OFF THE FORESKIN OF HER SON, AND CAST IT AT HIS FEET, laid it down so that it touched the feet of Moses, AND SAID, SURELY A BLOODY HUSBAND ART THOU TO ME. The entire incident seems to have been a source of great displeasure to Zipporah, and he... [ Continue Reading ]
So He let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband, or bridegroom, THOU ART, BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION. She vented her displeasure after the recovery of Moses was assured. It seems that this incident caused Moses to reconsider his intention of taking his family along to Egypt. At any rate, it was n... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. This showed that the favor of the Lord had once more turned to Moses. His wife was not in full accord with him and his belief at that time, but Aaron's coming would be a great comfort to him. And he went, and met him in the mount of G... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. Aaron thus became familiar with the situation just as the Lord had presented it to Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded, Exodus 3:16;... [ Continue Reading ]
and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the people believed, they were convinced by the words of Aaron, as they were substantiated by the miraculous signs given to Moses. AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE LORD HAD VISITED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, that He had investigated their condition in the land of their bondage, AND THAT HE HAD LOOKED U... [ Continue Reading ]