Moses Final Days Research Paper

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

Moses’ eyesight was so strong at 120 years old that he could clearly see far into the western sea and as far as Zoar. God loved Moses so much that He wanted Moses to at least see the Promised Land even though Moses would not get an opportunity to enter into it. God buried Moses Himself when he died, but He wouldn’t allow anyone to know where Moses’ burial was located. After Moses’ death, the Israelites grieved, wept and mourned for Moses for thirty

I would consider this to be a little unbelievable and strange how they would pop up at that moment. As Moses I would be confused and would not know what to say to the people in Egypt. As an archeologist it would probably puzzle me hearing and seeing this story. It is puzzling that the Gods would not tell moses what to say or do to get the people out of Egypt, only that it had to be done. If I were a god and cared about my people I would tell Moses exactly what to do. If I heard a voice in a haystack in Iowa I would probably ignore it like I

But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”

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

Israel had everything going its way. God had worked a spectacular miracle in redeeming the Nation from Egypt. Now Israel had a new and unique relationship with God. The Sinai Covenant came complete with Tabernacle, a worship program, and an elaborate legal system – Israel’s new blue print for the future. This book contains the census reports that Moses recorded while in the desert. The book also relates Israel’s difficulty in obeying God and describes the consequences of that disobedience. The Israelites continually complained about their circumstances, forgetting that they were free and no longer enslaved in Egypt. The greatest failure of the Israelites was that they refused to enter the Promised Land when God offered it. One thing I learn

Years have past Moses is an adult now and he looks into his roots and realizes that he is a Hebrew. And one day he sees an elderly Israelite being mercilessly beaten by an Egyptian and he intervinds and accidently kills the Egyptian man. So Moses runs a away to the Midian, a small town where he meets a priest named Jethro. Meets a woman who turns out to be Jethro’s daughter. He now starts his new life as shepherd and he during his daily duties and he notices something on Mount Horeb. There is a bush on fire, but it was not burning at all. So Moses went over to the burning bush to investigate “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” So God discuss his plan with Moses to bring the Israelites to Canaan “to a land flowing with milk and honey” and send Moses back towards Egypt to

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

I can only imagine how Joshua felt as he got up that first day without Moses to lead the people. How the people felt as they stared across the Jordan at the land they were going into and its inhabitants. Fear, excitement, sadness, regret, doubt they were probably all there in equal measure. In the midst of this mix of feelings God speaks to Joshua and tells him to be strong and courageous and to keep the law and that He will be with them.

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

     “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

Now we know who the writer was, let us look at what is being said and done as it correlates to the Israelites. The Israelites from the time the journey began complained and were impatient. This lets us know what type of people the Israelites were. They were people who could not be satisfied. Their need for earthy satisfaction came before their spiritual fulfillment. The people, who in a constant state of discord tell Aaron, who is Moses brother, that Moses has been gone a long time and they are not

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

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