Who was Moses ?

At that time most Israelites were worshipping many gods. Moses was to tell them that there was only one God.

Before Moses died, he reminded the people of all the Lord had done for them.

The tremendous responsibility of Moses's task, his shyness, and his own feeling of unworthiness brought forth a hesitancy and lack of confidence.

The whole book of Deuteronomy is a record of what was said. Moses read the Ten Commandments to them again.

He then went up into the mountain, looked into the Promised Land and then died as God said.

The promised destination for the Israelites' journey was a "land rich with milk and honey."

Today, we have someone who is greater than Moses:

Moses returned to Egypt and persuaded the Hebrews to organize for a quick trip from their Egyptian slave driver

Jesus Christ who is still leading people out of sin.

His shed blood still allows God’s fierce wrath to “pass over” those who have repented and put their trust in Him.

With Aaron, Moses informed the Pharaoh that the God of the Hebrews demanded that Pharaoh free God's people. The Pharaoh refused to obey, bringing upon himself and his people nine terrible plagues (diseases that spread rapidly and can cause death) that Moses produced upon Egypt by using the miraculous staff he had received from God as a sign of his authority.

The Egyptians suffered under the plagues of water turned into blood, frogs, gnats, flies, disease to their cattle, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness. Each plague was severe to the Egyptians but left the Israelites untouched.

The tenth plague is now the Hebrew story of Passover. God sent the Angel of Death to kill the firstborn sons of the Egyptians—a proof of His immense strength and power.

The Israelites protected their households by putting lamb's blood on their doorway, so that the Angel of Death would know to pass over their homes

The tremendous responsibility of Moses's task, his shyness, and his own feeling of unworthiness brought forth a hesitancy and lack of confidence.

This last plague broke the Pharaoh's resistance and moved him to grant the Hebrews permission to leave immediately. Moses thus found himself the leader of an undisciplined collection of slaves, Hebrew as well as non-Hebrew, escaping from Egyptian territory toward freedom.

The Divine answer was "Who made your tongue?"

Moses' immediate goal was Mt. Horeb, called Mt. Sinai, where God had first revealed Himself to Moses. The Hebrews came to the sacred mountain encouraged by the power they sensed in Moses
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The Divine answer was "Who made your tongue?"

He was then assured that Aaron, his more talkative brother, would serve as his spokesman both to the children of Israel and to the Pharaoh.

Summoned by God, Moses ascended the mountain and received the tablets of stone while the children of Israel heard the thundering forth of the Ten Commandments. Inspired, the people agreed to the conditions of the Covenant (agreement made between people and God).

The promised destination for the Israelites' journey was a "land rich with milk and honey."

With the help of his brother Aaron, Moses was able to hold together his ragtag band of exslaves for forty years. Only a man with tremendous will, patience, compassion, humility, and great faith could have forged the bickering and scheming groups who constantly challenged his wisdom and authority into a nation.

Throughout the forty years Moses was in constant communication with his Lord, the God of Israel. This God added to the Ten Commandments through Moses by giving a code of law regulating the social and religious lives of the people.