It's As Simple As That

The Israelites came to Egypt during the famine when Joseph, the boy that got thrown in the well by his brothers and sold off as a slave and ended up the Governor of all of  Egypt reunited with his family--years later--after being separated from his family for many years.

Joseph's father brought about 66 people, all family members with him to Egypt, when he came to be reunited with his son. The family multiplied.  God had changed Jacob, Joseph's father's name to Israel.  The people of Jacob's family were the "Israelites" that Moses led out of bondage, in Egypt.  Moses was an Israelite, a Hebrew, born in Egypt to one of the Hebrew slaves.  During this time, Pharaoh put out an order that all the male babies were to be killed. The Hebrews were becoming too many in number.  The Hebrew population was exploding.  Pharaoh called for the midwives who delivered babies and told them to kill the baby from the womb. The Hebrew midwives feared God and would not kill the babies.  Pharaoh found out that the male babies were living and charged all his people to kill every male that was born (Exodus 1:22).

Moses' mother gave birth and kept the baby for as long as she could until she could hide the baby no longer. She put the baby in a basket and took the basket to the river bank, and put the basket in the water. Pharaoh's daughter bathed near the area where the basket was floating and her handmaiden found the basket with the baby and took it to Pharaoh's daughter. Pharaoh's daughter named the baby Moses, and asked the little girl who was nearby watching--who happened to be Moses sister--to go and find a woman to nurse the baby and then return the baby after it finished the age of nursing.  

Moses was returned to Pharaoh's daughter and grew up in the palace. He grew older and became aware of the hard taskmasters who watched over the slaves as they worked. One day, as Moses was watching he saw a taskmaster wrestling with a slave woman and treating her very roughly and badly.  Moses went over and hit the taskmaster on the head and killed him.  Moses became aware that people saw him kill the man. It got back to Pharaoh that Moses had killed one of his men. Pharaoh was very angry.  Moses went on the run.

Moses, after traveling a distance came upon a well where women were watering their sheep.  Other sheep herders came up and began to be aggressive with the women and Moses intervened to protect the women and to water their sheep.  Moses was later invited to the home of the women whom he earlier helped at the well.  Moses met the father of the women. The father gave Moses one of his daughters to marry. Moses and his wife Zipporah had a baby and called him Gershom.  Just about when Moses was settling into being married and raising a family.........

............God called Moses.  A murderer, a baby who just missed being killed at birth. A Hebrew brought up in Pharaoh's court--a vagabond, on the run. God first spoke to Moses through a burning bush.  Moses was out herding sheep for his father-in-law and saw what looked like a burning bush. He noticed that although fire was coming from the bush, the bush was not burning up. Moses took a closer look.When Moses went to look at the bush more closely, God spoke to Moses and said, "Moses, Moses".  And Moses said, "here am I" (Exodus 3:4).  And Moses stood there while God began to tell him that He heard the cry of His people in Egypt; how the Israelites were suffering under hard bondage.  God said to Moses, "this is what I want you to do--go and tell Pharaoh to let My people go, and take that rod that is in your hand with you". "If anyone ask you who sent you, say, I Am that I Am sent me" (Exodus 3).

God uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.   

It is overwhelming to think of how years later, God sent a righteous man, a man who knew no sin, a lamb without spot or wrinkle, Himself in the form of the man Jesus, to suffer, be humiliated, bleed, be spat on, ridiculed, and die on the cross to deliver His people out of bondage. Jesus took on our sins that we may become sinless in the new birth. We are sinners saved by grace through faith, not of ourselves it is a gift of God, lest any man should boast.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.  Believe in the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus and you shall be born again.