Read: Exodus 2:11-3:22; Matthew 17:10-27; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 5:7-14
Moses went out to survey what the Hebrews were building for Pharaoh. He witnessed the cruelty of the Egyptian slave masters on his people and secretly killed an Egyptian and hid his body. The next day, when he went out, he saw two Hebrews fighting and asked them why they were fighting each other. They asked him if he was going to do to them what he had done to the Egyptian the day before. Moses realized that everyone knew what he did and it would just be a matter of time before the Egyptians knew it too.
He fled to Midian and sat down by a well. Once again he met his wife by a well. “Wells” were the Match.Com of the Old Testament. Jesus met his bride by a well. We all come to the well of salvation to meet our bridegroom.
Moses met Zipporah and watered her flocks for her. He married her and had a son named Gershom which means “a stranger in a foreign land”. That line sums up Moses’ whole life. He was always the stranger in a foreign land. He was an Israelite who grew up in an Egyptian household. He didn’t belong there and he didn’t belong with his own people. He didn’t belong in Midian either. We are all aliens on this earth because our home is with Jesus in heaven.
One day while he was tending his father-in-law’s flocks he saw a bush that had caught on fire and it refused to die out. He went over to see why and God spoke from the fire and revealed to Moses who he was. God was Moses’ father as he was Abraham’s, Isaac’s, and Jacob’s. He told him his whole future and the future of his nation. God was sending Moses back to Egypt to lead his people into the land that he had promised to Abraham. When the Israelites asked him who had sent him to deliver them out he was to tell them, “I AM who I AM. I AM has sent me.”
Moses was to meet with the Hebrew elders first and tell them that God wanted them to take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord. The Pharaoh will not be favorable but God would make the Israelites so hated by him that he would finally let them go. They would need to ask the Egyptian neighbors for silver and gold and clothing for their children. They will plunder the wealth of the Egyptians.
In Matthew, the disciples were wondering about the prophecy of Malachi 4:5 that says “I will sent you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Jesus explained that a Elijah did come in the form of John the Baptist. Their question proved why they couldn’t heal the man’s son of his seizures. They still didn’t have faith that Jesus was who he said he was and that nothing would be impossible through his name.
When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, Peter was approached about their temple tax which would be two drachmas a piece. It was suppose to be a voluntary tax but it was assumed that everyone would pay it. Jesus, who was the Lord of the Temple, asked Peter who paid taxes the people or the kings? Peter answered that the people pay taxes. Jesus was implying that they were the kings of the earth and should be exempt but because they would never understand this, he told Peter to go catch a fish and tax money would be in his mouth. God’s kingdom is supernatural and not of this world. We obey the laws of the world because we live here, but we also live in God’s kingdom where everything is free. We are to be kings and priests with God in the spiritual.
Lord, Help us to see the power in your name.
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