Moses Final Days Research Paper

Moses replied,“The Lord God of the Hebrews command that you let his people go so that they may serve Him. Now, Aaron will stretch his rod towards the cattle of Egypt and they will all die.”

Moses is born at the time where the pharaoh decides to kill all the first born boys.

While out one day with his flock, Moses came upon a burning bush. That bush ended up being God. This is where God asks Moses to go back to Egypt to ask the Pharaoh to let his people go. Moses hesitates and asks God how and why him. During his conversation with God, Moses is convinced that he must do what the

     “Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Horev, the mountain of Elohim. The angel of YHVH appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush. He gazed: the

Exodus created an identity for the Israelites through the form of Moses, which also defined the main relationship with their God. Through Moses, the Israelite people were eventually granted access to leave their bonds in Egypt and begin the journey to their promised land. However, God's covenant with the Israelites is extremely conditional. No other forces may be worshipped other than the true God, and everyone must follow the Ten Commandments, as well as trusting in Moses and his words. Those who did not follow directions were usually treated to a plague, widely seen throughout Exodus 7-12, when the Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go during God's words via Moses. This continued on through the entire passage to the promised land.

Just as we are obedient to our parents, we need to be obedient to God. Moses shows he should not be recalled because he wants the people to be obedient to God. It shows their love and faithfulness to God. Moses wants the Hebrews to listen to the laws of God so he wrote the instructions and gave it to the Israelites. “Then Moses wrote down this law, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel,” (Deut. 31:9). The importance of obedience to God is shown in the story of Joshua and Caleb starting in Numbers 4:6-9. “And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes and said to all the congregation of the Israelites, “The land that we went through as spies is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only, do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are no more than bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.” Because Caleb has a different spirit and follows the Lord wholeheartedly, he is promised the land of milk and honey for him and his descendants as a reward of his obedience to the Lord. On page 112 and 113 of Moses as Political Leader, Wildavsky describes the disobedience of the Hebrew people to worship a golden calf, and the anger of God as he wants to wipe out the entire

The fact that he is born in a time when the Pharaoh is oppressing the Hebrew people is a large problem. If we look deeper into the Historical context it we see that Pharaoh had decreed the midwives to kill any Hebrew baby boys. This was an attempt to try and control the rising population of Hebrews. The climax of the narrative is when the daughter of Pharaoh finds the basket that Moses had been placed in. If one had never heard the story of Moses before it would be a situation of great anticipation knowing that the Pharaoh had decreed for Hebrew boys to be killed. The context of the story should be read with great intensity and suspense to get a feel for how Miriam may have felt seeing this all

Moses was the first great leader for the nation of Israel yet he was not perfect. Moses life started out on the edge of death, and when he left

Then the LORD became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,' to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once – if I have found favor in your sight – and do not let me see my misery" (Num 11:

The stage was set for Pharaoh to witness God’s awesome power through Moses – Exodus 7-9. Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let God’s people go due to God’s hardening of his heart. However, God miraculously delivered His people from the hands of the most powerful

Around the time of Moses’s birth, a large number of the Hebrew population in Egypt was enslaved by the Pharaoh. Pharaoh was afraid of what would happen if the Hebrew population continued to grow. “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” (110) Moses's mother refused to let this happen so she made a basket coated with tar and sent the basket, with Moses inside, down the Nile river. To anyone’s surprise, Moses survived and happened to float into a part of the river where the Pharaoh’s daughter was bathing. Pharaoh's daughter took Moses and saw that he was a Hebrew child and decided to keep him as her son. Even though Moses was too young to recognize this as a problem, it’s amazing how he was able to survive the Nile, and to be raised as a royal member of the family, considering his, “Grandfather”, had ordered all Hebrew male babies to be killed. This itself

In this chapter, God who has been silently guiding Moses for eighty years, made Himself known to him. God’s revelation to Moses in a burning bush, which manifests His Holiness and Reverence, is a time of calling and sending forth. God is now going to send Moses to deliver Israelites’ captivity and slavery from Egypt and bring them into the land promised by God for them to take possession; a fertile land, full of God’s blessings, flowing with milk and honey. Moses, at first, was hesitant seeing the task ahead, but with God’s assurance of divine help, Moses accepted the task.

Now when we get to this part of the story we might say, “Hang on a minute Moses, you’ve made a mistake here.

10 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the LORD. 11They said to Moses, ‘Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? 12Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, “Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.’ 13But Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the LORD will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never

Meanwhile, God hears Israelites’ groaning from slavery and remembers His covenant. He appears to Moses in Midian as a blazing fire of bushes and commissions Moses to deliver His people out of Egypt. Moses protests to God’s call first, nevertheless, God gives Moses signs that Israelites would hear and sends Aaron, his brother, as his spokesman. Hence, Moses obeys and departs to Egypt.