2023 What Was Special About Moses That Made Pharaoh Want To Kill Hebrew Baby Boys: Expert Tell You

The Birth of Moses: A Threat to Pharaoh’s Reign

Moses in cradle threatened Pharaoh’s grip on power and reign. Pharaoh’s fear of a male Hebrew delivering his people from slavery led to the order of infanticide against newborn Hebrew boys. Pharaoh wanted to extinguish the possibility of a Hebrew male arising who could mobilize the Israelites to rebel against Egyptian rule.
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The Divine Intervention: Moses’ Miraculous Escape

Moses’ mother took drastic measures to save his life in defiance of Pharaoh’s order. She hid Moses for the first three months of his life, until she could no longer conceal him from the Egyptian authorities. She then placed the infant Moses in a waterproof ark fashioned from reeds and pitch, and set him adrift on the Nile River.

Pharaoh’s daughter soon discovered baby Moses floating in the ark and took pity on him. Defying her father’s decree, she adopted Moses as her own son and arranged for his Hebrew mother to nurse him.

God orchestrated this divinely intervention to accomplish two important purposes:

• Protect Moses until he was old enough to fulfill his destiny

• Place Moses in a position to be trained and educated in Pharaoh’s household, providing him with the knowledge and skills needed later to confront Pharaoh and lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

The events surrounding Moses’ rescue and adoption by Pharaoh’s daughter demonstrated God’s divine protection and providential care for those called according to His purpose. What seemed like a hopeless situation for baby Moses actually set the stage for his future role as liberator of the Israelites.

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Moses’ Early Years: A Life of Mystery and Destiny

Moses was raised as Pharaoh’s son in the Egyptian royal court, unaware of his Hebrew origins during his early years. Pharaoh’s daughter likely kept Moses’ true heritage a secret, raising him as her own son.

As Moses grew older, he began to sense there was something different about him. The Bible describes Moses as being “instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and [he was] mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Yet within Moses stirred a consciousness of his true identity and destiny.

The writer of Hebrews recounts that “by faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict” (Hebrews 11:23). Though Moses did not know the details of his miraculous rescue as a baby, something within him resonated with his Hebrew heritage.

As a young man, Moses witnessed an Egyptian mistreating a Hebrew slave. In his zeal for justice, Moses killed theEgyptian and buried him in the sand. The next day, when Moses saw two Hebrews fighting, he tried to intervene and reconcile them. But they replied, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us?”(Exodus 2:14). This incident revealed that though Moses was raised as an Egyptian, his heart was with his Israelite brothers.

Moses’ early life and experiences prepared him in mysterious ways for his divine destiny – to lead his people from slavery into freedom.

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The Prophecy Fulfilled: Moses’ Call to Deliverance

After killing the Egyptian taskmaster, Moses fled to Midian, where he encountered God in a dramatic way. Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, when he came to Mount Horeb. There, God spoke to Moses from a burning bush that was on fire but was not consumed.

God revealed His name to Moses as “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14) and commissioned Moses to return to Egypt to deliver the Israelites from slavery. God promised to be with Moses and empower him to accomplish this great task. Moses resisted God’s calling, making several excuses. But God ensured Moses that He would enable Moses and provide the signs and wonders necessary to convince both the Israelites and Pharaoh.

The divine encounter at the burning bush represents a pivotal moment in Moses’ life and in biblical history. It was here that Moses received his prophetic destiny, God’s plan for his life from birth finally came to fruition. Moses went from being a humble shepherd to becoming the instrumental figure used by God to liberate the Israelites from bondage and establish them as a nation with God’s law.

Moses’ call narrative at the burning bush illustrates God’s sovereign providence. Despite obstacles and delays, God accomplished His purposes through Moses’ life by supernaturally intervening at the right moment and in the right way.