THE STORY OF MOSES

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Moses is an integral part of the exodus of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. He was a descendant of Israel born in Egypt and he is a great prophet and believed to have spoken with God on several occasions. During the birth of Moses, Pharaoh(the king of Egypt) had given a decree to kill all male child born to an Israelites because they (Egyptians) were afraid of the multiplication of the children of Israel, they thought, the Israelites could join their enemies to fight against them. 

It was a bitter experiences for the Israelites because they suffered and enslaved by the Egyptians. Moses was hidden three months after his birth because his mother was afraid he would be killed, if the Egyptians found out about Moses, so against all odd, she put the child Moses in a basket 🧺 and set him on the Nile river while her sister watched from afar to see what will happen to the child. The mother was praying and asking God to save him. And we know, God never fail nor disappoint, her faith was rewarded as baby Moses sailed through the Nile river and reached the place where Pharaoh’s daughter was taking her bathe and the princess was touched with compassion with she saw Moses was a proper child. The princess gave him the name “Moses”  (meaning “draw out”). Moses was adopted by the princess and was raised in the palace through the guidance of his own mother but unaware to the princess.  Exodus 2:4–10. 

A grown man (Moses) always knows he was a Hebrew (Israelites) so one day, he went out and saw an Egyptian maltreating and killed a fellow Hebrew, Moses intervened by killing the Egyptian and buried him in the dust. His next visit to the camp of the Israelites got him accused of killing an Egyptian because they (Hebrews) believe that Moses was also an Egyptian.

When the news was all over Egypt, and Moses been afraid of the riot of the king, he fled to Midian and lived there for 40 years. He was a shepherd and married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro the priest of Midian. He was in the bush doing his business when he saw a burning bush but noticed it wasn’t consumed by the fire, and when he approached to see, he heard a voice of God with instructions to save the enslaved children of Israel and lead them to the “Promise Land”. Moses still afraid of Pharaoh was reluctant to accept God’s instructions and he began to give excuses that he is a stammer (inability to speak well) and was afraid of been ignored by the Israelites. But God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” And God showed him some signs to perform, if the Israelites still refused to believe him and God also instructed Moses to take his brother Aaron as spokesman. God had promised to be with them and filled the land of Egypt with terror. 

When Moses finally met Pharaoh with the instructions from God to allow the children of Israel to go, but Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused and God send plagues all over Egypt. The riot of the Lord made the fishes in the Nile river to die and frogs was all over Egypt including the palace. Their water was turned into blood, Lice, Hail, Boils, Locusts , death of livestocks. 

And when it becomes unbearable to the king, he asked Moses to pray for his God to take away their calamities and he accepted to let the Israelites go. But when Moses prayed and God take away their calamities, the king hardened  his heart, and refused to grant the Israelites freedom. Until the tenth punishment where all the male firstborn died including the prince and the king eventually allowed the Israelites to depart. God gave the Israelites favor in the sight of the Egyptians and they had in their possessions, abundant of jewels and treasures. 

With the supernatural power from God, they were able to leave and approaching the “Red Sea” they felt trapped and when they noticed that the Egyptians army are coming after them, they fainted and cried to God to rescue them. Moses lifted up his staff towards the Red Sea as instructed by God and the Red Sea parted and they walked through and passed which consumed the Egyptians army when they tried to pass. 

The Israelites were finally liberated but they lack shelter, food and water but God fed them with manna, quails and Moses was meant to hit his staff on the rock for water to gush out. About three months later God gave Moses the “Ten Commandments” at Mount Sinai.

Life becomes so difficult for the Israelites in the wilderness and they complained so much and they fought many battles with the cities around them.

When they were in the wilderness of Zin, Moses sinned against God and God told him, he will see the Promise Land but will not enter it. God instructed Moses to climb the Abarim Mountains to see the great city the children of Israel will possess and He instructed him to appoint Joshua the son of Nun as his successor.       

Moses lived a good life of 120 years and died in the land of Moab and the Lord buried him and no body knows his buried place till this day. Deuteronomy 34:6.

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