When Israel was freed from slavery in Egypt by God, she experienced wonders and miracles. Not yet a nation, the sons and daughters of Jacob moved to Egypt seventy people in all. They prospered while Joseph was alive; but after his death in time another king aroused who did not know the background history of Joseph and his family. While made to work hard, Israel did not faint and continued progressing and multiplying to the point that Egyptians feared their growth and tried to kill their babes. But God saved their babes, including a specific one called Moses, found in the river and adopted by an Egyptian princess. Moses, grew up in the palace, and was considered a prince. But his heart was never leaned toward the life style of an Egyptian prince. He much preferred to be suffering with his own people. At forty years old, he killed an Egyptian who was mistreating an Israelite and had to flee for his life from Pharao. He found refuge in the land of Midian, where he met his future wife and lived there for another forty years, when God appeared to him in a burning bush and called him for a specific task, that of Israel’s liberator from bondage from Egypt. As he was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, he came to Horeb, or Sinai, the mountain of God. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush… God called Moses out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, do not come near; put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground…also he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, and moses hid his face for he was afraid to look at God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters and oppressors; for I know their sorrows and sufferings and trials. And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand and power of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and large, a land flowing with milk and honey… Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 1). Moses then asked Him, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? (Exodus 3:11).
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