Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Exodus 4:11-12
Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath
made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind?
Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and
teach thee what thou shall say.
God told Moses how He would take the children of
Israel out of the Egyptian bondage and into the Promised Land. The response of
Moses, verse 1, was
that the Jewish people would not believe him and would not accept what he was
telling them.
What an interesting illustration the Lord used to
tell Moses that He would help him to do the task that He wanted him to do for
his people. The “rod” in the hand of Moses would become a “serpent”, which it
did, causing Moses to drop it. As Moses obeyed the Lord and picked up the
serpent by the tail it returned the rod that had been in his hand.
There was another “sign” that the Lord would use on
Moses, which Moses was to show to the Jewish people when he told them he was to
lead them out of bondage and into the promise land. This sign was the “leprous”
hand, verses 6-9.
Even with these signs Moses still resisted the
Lord’s call for him to be the “deliverer” of the Jewish people. In fact, when
Moses introduced the thought to the Lord that Aaron, his brother, could do the
job, it angered the Lord, verse 14.
Aaron was an excellent speaker, but not the one the
Lord wanted for the job. It is at this point that the Lord told Moses that He
would be with both him and his brother Aaron as they would lead the children of
Israel out of the Egyptian bondage, verses 14-17.
In the next seven chapters of Exodus we will see
the contest that Moses would have with the Pharaoh before the leader of Egypt
would “let the people of Moses go”. We will briefly look at those chapters, but
this devotional for today is key in the liberation of the Jewish people from
Egypt and the first of three returns to the real estate that God had given the
Jewish people.
The focus of this narrative in Exodus is the
departure of the Jews from the “land of bondage” to the “land of promise”. The
focus of the Jews today is the return of the Jews to the land that God promised
them through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
This is the plan that God has for the Jewish people
for the last days and as we witness this happening in our day we have the
evidence that the Lord is working out His plan and the return of His son, Jesus
Christ, must be very, very close, maybe even today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Since the Lord is
working out His plan for the end of days, today, among the Jewish people, we
must realize how close we are to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and live out
our everyday lives in light of that truth. Help me to do so Lord.