God’s Superior Power
You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. Exodus 7:2. The Lord directed Moses to go again to the children of Israel and repeat the promise of deliverance, with a fresh assurance of divine favor. Moses went as […]
God Will Surely Visit You
Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Genesis 50:24. Only a few families went down into Egypt, but they had become a great multitude. And being surrounded […]
Double Bondage
And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!” Exodus 5:5. Aaron, being instructed by angels, went forth to meet his brother, from whom he had been separated for many years, and they met amid the desert solitudes in the mount of God…. Together […]
The Call of Moses
Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Exodus 3:10. To the oppressed and suffering Hebrews the day of their deliverance seemed to be long deferred, but in His own appointed time God designed to work for them in mighty […]
The Unlearning Experience
Then Moses was content to live with the man [the priest of Midian] Exodus 2:21. The human element is seen in all who have been chosen to accomplish a work for God…. Connected with God, the source of all wisdom, individuals may reach any height of moral excellence…. Moses had been learning much which he […]
Forty Years of Retraining
The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. Exodus 2:23. Moses had become, in every sense, a great man. As a writer, as a military leader, and as a philosopher, he had no superior. Love of truth and righteousness […]
