Another biblical character who discussed and struggled with the great God was Moses. His story begins in the book of Exodus, the second book of the Old Testament and begins in Egypt. As a Jew was never finished in this country pay?
Jacob, years before, had settled there with their children and their families. There were about sixty people. We came because of famine and asked why one of his twelve sons, Joseph, who, through various vicissitudes, he became viceroy of Egypt, and even powerful. The reigning Pharaoh loved him and respected him, since Joseph had just acted with great wisdom and saved with its advice to the country suffering from famine.
Over the years, after which Jacob and Joseph and his brothers were dead and the Pharaoh, the Israelites in Egypt had multiplied and became very numerous. The new Pharaoh, successor of the one that prevailed at the time of Joseph, feared them.
Going to the springs, had tried to delete them. Before he had ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill the males that were born, and since the disobedient ones, ordered that the men were thrown into the Nile. We would have thought the crocodiles.
The girls could be kept alive. They married and the Egyptians would be identified with the people. Adults Jews, residents in Egypt, were all sentenced to forced labor and harassed. Many of them died.
At that time, in a family, a descendant of Levi, one of the sons of Jacob, was born a beautiful child, the parents held nacosto and then was adopted by Pharaoh's own daughter, who named him Moses, and grew up in court until about the age of 40 years (details of the whole affair are in Chapter 2. Exodus and well known).
40 years Moses decided to leave the royal palace and to visit his brothers and fellow Jews. He saw an Egyptian mistreating the Jews, killed him and hid her body. The next day, he saw two Hebrews quarreling and fighting and said that that he was wrong: "Why do you strike your companion?".
And that: "You want to kill me as well as the Egyptian yesterday?".
Moses was terribly frightened and ran away, because he knew that Pharaoh was aware of what he had done and wanted to kill him. He went to live in the desert of Midian, I married and stayed there for about 40 years. Tended the flocks of his father in law, Jethro. A big change: from the comfort of the court of Egypt had fallen to the care of the sheep.
Meanwhile, all the children of Israel suffered and groaned. God took pity and decided to free them. It would have done precisely by means of Moses.
One day, this grazing sheep and saw a bush burning without being consumed. He went to see what it was and God spoke to him from the burning bush, saying "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ... I have seen the affliction of my people, and I heard the cry that tear their oppressors ... have come down to rescue ... Now therefore go, 'I will send you to Pharaoh, because you do out of Egypt my people, the children of Israel ... "
And here begins the push and pull.
Moses: "Who am I to go to Pharaoh ?..."
God 'Go because I will be with you" .
Moses "When I go to the children of Israel ... and say: 'The God of your fathers has sent me, "if they say:' What is your name?" which I say? ".
God "Say to the Israelites: 'The I AM (Yahweh) has sent me to you". "
Moses: "But I do not believe.
At that point, God encourages Moses, making it perform two miracles and promises that he would have made of others. But Moses does not give up: "Ah, Lord, I'm not a talker ... I am slow of speech and language ... "
God 'Go, I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say ".
Moses, "Please, Lord, send your message with whoever you want!" It means: "Send those you like, but not me!"
The anger of the Lord, then explodes: "Is there not Aaron, your brother? He speaks well. He will speak for you and tell you what will you say! Shoot out, take the stick and move. "
front of a angry God, Moses obeyed. Become the leader, the liberator, who will lead the people to the borders of the Promised Land. It will do this for another 40 years!
As we look like Moses in its reticence!
The Lord tells us to be His witnesses and we fall back. We say that we are timid and unprepared. We must think of the family and business.
God says we are his ambassadors, and we stay in the house. Too hard!
says that we should support his work with our goods and we use our money to buy a pair of shoes that we could do without.
tells us to go and we bet your feet. Tells us to stand still and we run away. To resist sin and we fall.
And if you lose your patience, and uses the hard way, we are surprised and say, "Why, what evil have I done?".
better obey!
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