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In Exodus chapter five, verse one, Moses and Aaron went to Pharoah to request as the Lord God of Israel told him to let the Israelites go to celebrate in the wilderness. The exodus conflict in this chapter is between two gods: Yahweh, the God of Israel, and Pharoah, who in Egyptian religion believes to […]

In Exodus chapter four, verse twenty-four, Moses had neglected to perform the covenant sign of circumcision of his son. This response is a clear sign of disobedience by Moses and his wife. God afflicted Moses with a potentially fatal illness until he had his son circumcised. This incident demonstrates that God’s election of an individual

In Exodus chapter four, verse twenty-two, the firstborn indicates a special love and relationship with God. God claims Israel as His son. Later in a narrowing of the sonship theme, God calls the Davidic dynasty His son, and still next, in a further narrowing, He claims Jesus as His Son.The Jewish concept of being the

In Exodus chapter three, verse eight, this is a proverbial statement picturing agricultural abundance. The honey includes honey from grapes or dates from bees; the juice boils down to produce a thick syrup. Milk and honey is the land abounded with other good things. Excellent fruits, such as corn, wine, and oil, and with figs,

In Exodus chapter three, verse seven, God was concerned about the misery of the people in Egypt. He is aware of the distress of all His people. God hears the cry of those who are troubled and oppressed. In such times God’s people must cry out to Him that he might mercifully intervene on their

In Exodus chapter three, verse five, God’s initial revelation to Moses was of His holiness. Holiness means separation from sin and all evil and commitment to righteousness. Moses had to remember that the God he served was holy: so holy that a human to look at Him would bring forth death. God’s initial revelation to

In Exodus chapter two, verse twenty-three, after many years of oppression, the people of Israel began to cry unto God for help. When they turned to the Lord, He turned to them. The Israelites may have been worshipping the gods of Egypt and calling upon them for help and deliverance. However, they most likely did

In Exodus chapter two, verse fifteen, the land of Midian is a place in the northwest Arabian Peninsula where Moses was there for forty years. Why did he stay there for that period? Moses attempts to break up a fight between two Hebrews and learn that his murder of a violent Egyptian was not a

In Exodus chapter two, verse twelve, Moses’ willingness to identify with God’s people and defend the Hebrews facing oppression demonstrated his faith in God. Moses rejected the passing pleasures of sin for the honor of suffering for God and his people. The phrase, “He looked this way and that,” is the modern equivalent of the

Moses was a goodly child from a man of the House of Levi and daughter of Levi: nursed by Pharoah’s daughter by a Hebrew handmaid, which is his mother. He later grew up and moved away from Egypt to Midian. Moses was Jewish and well aware of it. He was an adoptive son of the