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Post by gsmithb on Apr 30, 2014 2:41:07 GMT
In Stephen's account, Acts 7:25 'For he supposed his brethren would have understood how God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.', do you think Moses knew that he was to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt at this time?
If this just was about delivering that one man from the Egyptian then why does it state,'by the hand of God'?
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Post by Lee on Apr 30, 2014 3:10:35 GMT
Why did he take upon himself to interfere in so practical and decisive a form in the affairs of his brethren? Because “he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God, by his hand, would deliver them” (Acts 7:25). Why did he entertain such a thought before God had appeared to him? Probably, because the time spoken of by God to Abraham having drawn near, he concluded that his own elevation to a position so near the throne of Egypt was a providential indication that God would make use of him in accomplishing the promised deliverance. In this thought, events ultimately proved him right; but in proceeding to act upon it without authority, he made the mistake of beginning 40 years before the time, and had to flee from the country and take refuge in Midian, where the chapter read from Exodus shows him to us at the end of forty years. Forty years!
1886 Christadelphian p104
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Post by Lee on Apr 30, 2014 3:15:50 GMT
That's interesting as I never grasped the idea, that Moses suspected he would be the one to save his people even before seeing the burning bush.
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