Saturday, August 26, 2017
Exodus 4:11-12
Saturday, August 26, 2017 |
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.
For further study – Exodus
4:1-31
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.