This man was a servant of the living God. He wasn't an
average tool though. Deuteronomy 34:10 says that "there arose not a
prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face
..." By God's grace, he WAS very special (Jude 1:9). He was to become the first prime minister of
the greatest nation in history… and the author of the first five books of the
Bible.
He was a Levite. His parents were Amram and Jochebed. According to the New Testament, his father
and mother willfully disobeyed the current infanticide law "because they
saw he was a proper child" (Hebrews 11:23 & Acts 7:20).
At three months old he was too loud for them to hide him in
their house any more. So, they finally “obeyed” the king... they
"threw" baby Moses into the Nile (Acts 7:21). They put him into the
river in a floating basket and assigned his older sister to watch over him.
Whatever their strategy was all about, God used it. God caused Moses to be
found, accepted and protected by one of Pharaoh's own daughters. On top of
that, Jochebed became Moses' paid nurse.
Read Hebrews 11:24-27 to find out how and why Moses left
Egypt at the age of 40. Then, over the next 40 years he lived in obscurity,
became a father and waited (unwittingly) until God was ready to use him as the
deliverer that he had originally understood himself to be (Acts 7:25) when he
had killed the Egyptian oppressor (Acts 7:24).
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