- YHVH, which is pronounced as YaHVaH
or YaHWaH. In addition we will also use our Heavenly Father’s
attribute/title, which is Elohim rather than “God,” which
sadly is the name of a pagan god. In addition we also love to use the actual
and real Name of our beloved Messiah which is 
- Yahushua or Yahshua in short, for
this is our Saviours original Hebrew Name as given to Him at birth in
Shemos - Exodus Chapter
Two
Prologue … “The Preparation of Moshe”
Introduction
In the first study of the Shemos - Exodus series we looked
at the Word of YaHVaH Elohim (The LORD Elohim), blessed be His Sanctified
Name, on three levels. 1. The Human level: 2. The Divine level:
and 3. And
the Believer’s or Spiritual level, where we ask
the question; “What does this say to the faithful in Messiah Yahushua?”
In this second study of the Book of Shemos - Exodus, we will once again look closely at the human side of Moshe’s – Moses’ story, including the three stages of his preparation to becoming “the man of Elohim” 1. Among the Egyptians: 2. Among the Israelites: and 3. Finally among the Midianites.
Let us commence by reading Shemos – Exodus chapter 2.
Shemos - Exodus 2: 1-25; The 7 scenes in
Moshe’s Life!
1… His birth and miracle in the Nile.
“1 Now a man of the house of
2… the babe is found and give to Yochabed to
nurse and raise.
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the
3… The babe is named Moshe – Moses.
10 When the child grew, she took him to Pharaoh’s
daughter and he became her son. She named him Moshe -
4… Moshe tries to help his people.
11 One day, after Moshe had grown up, he went out to where
his own people were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian
beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and
seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day
he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong,
‘Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?’ 14 The man said,
‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as
you killed the Egyptian?’ Then Moshe was afraid and thought, ‘What
I did must have become known.’
5… Fear, his travel, and his meeting with
the priest of Midian.
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moshe, but Moshe
fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16
Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and
fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Some shepherds came
along and drove them away, but Moshe got up and came to their rescue and
watered their flock. 18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked
them, ‘Why have you returned so early today?’ 19 They answered,
‘An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and
watered the flock.’ 20 ‘And where is he?’ he asked his
daughters. ‘Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.’
6… Moshe marries Zipporah and has two sons.
21 Moshe agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter
Zipporah to Moshe in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moshe named
him Gershom, saying, ‘I have become an alien in a foreign land.’
7… Changes in
23 During that long period, the king of
Level 1 – The Human Level
The early periods that
We also read in the Word that a baby boy was born to one of the faithful
Levite families of
However, as we ponder about all of these events let us
briefly return to Chapter One, for there something quite remarkable occurred
there and I did not as yet cover it in that Study.
I would like to pose a rather strange question here.
“Is
it permissible for one in faith, a person in
Obviously most of us will say “no never.”
However, in my book “Dutch Tzedakah” I wrote about a number
of beautiful and loving faithful believers who did tell many untruths, for they
hid many Jews and others from the ever-searching eyes of the evil murdering
Nazis!
The now well known ten Boom family saved Jews from the
Holocaust and their horrid death camps and whenever a Nazi came to their door
and asked Corrie
ten Boom, “Are there any Juden in your house?” She said
“no.” Obviously, we know that this was an untruth for
there were Jews inside the “
The ten Boom’s work of saving Jews came under an
Organisation known as the LO – “Landelijke
(Countrywide) Organisation”,
which was led by a most faithful woman Tante Reik, which was her
code name, her actual name was Mrs. Helena Theodora Kuipers who lived in
Winterswijk Holland that was quite close to the German border. This saint
together with her dear husband and help from a faithful man a pastor saved,
through her Elohim inspired organisation, around 10,000 Dutch, German, and
other Jewish men, women and children as well as another 300,000 non-Jews, being
Dutch citizens fighting the Nazis as well as British and American airmen and
soldiers.
Beloved, they all lied to the enemy! Please read my Book
online “Dutch Tzedakah” Chapter 11 – “Hunted Like a
Deer” at: www.dutchtzedakah.com and
you will be amazed by this lady’s enormous faith and I know that it will
be a life changing experience!
Now, I must come to a matter that is shown to us very
clearly, for we should recall that in Shemos - Exodus chapter One verses 15 to
21 we read about the midwives who very clearly lied to Pharaoh! What did our Heavenly
Father do? Did He punish them? NO, He - blessed them!
“The king of
As the Word describes in this situation, under certain
unusual circumstances, we can tell an untruth and yet be right with Elohim! Now please note: I
am certainly not encouraging believers to tell lies, certainly not, Elohim
forbid, but on certain occasions some circumstances arises when the Almighty
may allow us to mislead the enemy in order to do that which is in
Elohim’s plan and purpose! But, we MUST NEVER LIE for any other reason, no matter
what!
Shemos - Exodus Chapter 2, verse 2 tells us that Yochebed hid the baby
for 3 months. It is important to understand that in those days, a baby
was kept for three months in the woman’s quarters of the house. As men
were forbidden to enter the women’s quarters, no soldier could enter that
part of the house and see if a baby was hidden there.
Babies would usually come out into the main room of the
home during the day and they would be shared with the family. But, the mother
of this little boy who would later be called Moshe, decided to keep him safe in
her private quarters for the entire three months. She kept him well hidden,
just like Miriam (Mary) herself was “well hidden,” for she was in
Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, far from the clutches of HaSatan – the
Adversary who had been trying to destroy Israel and the line of David
throughout history, as the Word so clearly tells us. Why, destroy he who is
from line of
Just imagine the fear of a mother, as she hears the
soldiers marching through the streets searching for Israelite baby boys and if
found he would be killed, drowned in the
Finally after three months she decided to place her beloved
son in the very place where the god of the River Nile took and killed other
Hebrew baby boys. She wholly trusted her beloved Elohim with her most precious gift
her boy child. What an amazing thing to do. She placed him in the very worst
place you could imagine. The truth being, she trusted a far greater power than
this false
She had made a small papyrus cot and placed it in the river
with baby safe inside. Even though there was danger all around, she left him
alone knowing somehow that he was in the trustworthy hands of the Elohim of her
fathers. We all know the rest of the story so well, for it is just like a fairy
tale, the son of slaves’ ended up living in the Royal Household of Egypt.
Ironically having been found and adopted by Pharaoh’s
daughter she ends up paying the baby’s own mother to nurse him and even
raised him until I believe he was ready to go to the palace. We are not told at
what precise point of his life this was, but one would assume, this would be
not long after the time the boy child would be freely eating solid foods and
Pharaoh’s daughter named him Moshe because she had “drawn him from
the water,” and the Nile being her god!
All this is an amazing truth and we see it happening again
and again in the Word,
With that thought in our mind, I now briefly wish to turn
to the great prophet Eliyahu -
Whilst at the brook of Cherith, Eliyahu had to rely on Elohim
physically for all his needs. This was about to change as he headed for
Zarephath, for there he would have to rely on Elohim mentally.
Zarephath would have been the very last place Eliyahu would
have gone to in the natural. Lets face it; Zarephath was not just a city of
Why would Elohim choose this poor Sidonian woman? Beloved,
the merciful Elohim makes provision for His appointed ones, and also for this
woman who was about to be blessed by Eliyahu’s presence!
At this point, we should realise that six major difficulties
arose for the prophet Eliyahu at this command. And we need to remember the days
and environment were very different to the days we live in.
He would have to accept hospitality & charity - In
those days, for a man to request help was to disgrace himself.
He would have to depend on a woman - Eliyahu would have
been raised with the idea that men must be the dependable providers.
Eliyahu would have to live with a widow - How could a
prophet and a man of YHVH Elohim go and live in a widow’s house? The
people would talk?
He would have to go and ask help from a pauper - This would
be difficult as his upbringing was to always to give to the poor.
Eliyahu was to go to a Gentile, a Sidonian Pagan for help
and accommodation - The food and the environment would not be Kosher, thus not
scripturally fit.
He went to the centre (
Why did the Almighty send Eliyahu into the very home town
of
Our Elohim has a master plan and He never fails! And so it
was for Moshe. Elohim allowed him to be placed where the enemy would not look
for Hebrew baby boys, in the river
As we know that Moshe for the first stage of his life was
raised very much like a prince in the splendour of a grand palace under the
care of the pharaoh’s daughter. But towards the end of stage one there
would be an experience that was going to change his life as well as the history
of all mankind.
Although Moshe would had seen the Hebrew slaves over the
many years, but he had not been to physically visit the Children of Israel
until he was around 40 years of age. Either, someone told him what had
originally happened or he may have had some slight amount of memory, but we
have no details, for nothing is written regarding his time in the palace.
Thus now we see Moshe venturing out amongst his own people
There is no doubt that this was the wrong moment for Moshe
to start helping his people as it was obviously the wrong way to go about it,
killing an Egyptian. The point is; this act was done FOR them rather than WITH them.
However, apparently he had been seen by someone and obviously in due course
Pharaoh would hear about it!
We must also realise, that the Hebrews at this point would
not accept Moshe as one of their own, let alone remotely imagined him to become
their future leader. For when he tried to stop several Hebrews quarrelling the
very next day, they said,
“‘Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do
you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?’ So Moshe feared and
said, ‘Surely this thing is known!’ When Pharaoh heard of this
matter, he sought to kill Moshe. But Moshe fled from the face of Pharaoh.”
Shemos - Exodus 2:14-15.
They certainly did not realise that
We now come to the second stage of his life as
Moshe quickly departed
Thus this is where Moshe meets a desert family and marries one
of the daughters of the Midianites. Now we see Moshe in the heart of the Sinai
desert wandering around as a simple shepherd! Now in the dessert we see a
mighty prince who had the very best in the world, but he had became a lowly
shepherd in a far away desert and instead of living in a grand palatial palace,
he lived in a lowly tent having to work very hard for his daily crust!
Did you realise that
However, I feel in a way that it was rather sad that Moshe
married Zipporah and we shall come to see that this was because in truth he
married a woman without faith, for later Moshe would have many disputes with
her. The first was over the Hebraic upbringing of their children. She even
called him “A bloody husband” because of his faith. This is a standard
warning for men and women … NEVER get married outside of the faith. It
is a grave mistake. We are told in the Word, “Be not unequally yoked together.”
Moshe was now far from his familiar surroundings, thinking
that he would never see
1…
Moshe spent the first 40 years as a mighty prince, thinking he was - a somebody.
2…
Then he lived the next 40 years as a lowly shepherd, thinking he was - a nobody.
3…
During Moshe’s final 40 years he discovered - that the Almighty was able to
take a nobody and make him a somebody.
Thus Elohim’s chosen servant, Moshe lived a total of
120 years, 40
as a prince - a somebody. Then 40 years as a shepherd - a nobody and
far from his people. In his final 40 years, he found out what Elohim can do with a
nobody who was willing to follow his Elohim and
thus he led the Children of Israel out of the
This has been the human level of the story so far.
Level 2 – The Divine Level
Beloved, what is so incredibly amazing is this; that there
are those who are chosen for special duties and thus YaHVaH our Elohim, blessed
be His Sanctified Name, can work within a man’s life even before he comes
to Elohim, for He will prepare that person for what He is going to do with him
later!
It is for that reason that Elohim wanted Moshe in the
Palace. He wanted him to be able to speak to the Pharaoh on his own level at a later date, thus YHVH
gave Moshe all the privileges of a prince living with all the riches of the
royal household. However, Elohim, blessed be He, could not use Moshe whilst he
was in this high position, thus our Heavenly Father allowed him to be humbled
and brought right down and only whilst Moshe was far removed from his own
people and Egypt would Elohim eventually speak to him.
The Almighty will only exult those who have been humbled.
Remember, all who have come to Messiah Yahushua had to first believe, then in
full humility repent and be fully immersed in water, and it was after we repented
did we receive the blessing of redemption and the filling of the Sanctified
(Holy) Spirit! In the same way
Another wonderful blessing was, as we read in the blessed
Word is, that
Elohim came all the way down to Moshe and called him when he was
at the bottom of the mountain and not on the top. In fact the
Word says that Moshe was in “the furthermost part of the wilderness.”
Whilst he was sitting all alone in the wilderness, he was feeling that his life
had nothing in store for him, and then suddenly he heard a voice. And indeed
Now the Almighty was able to say, “You are ready to
get back to a high position. Now your motivation is not on the human level, but
the spiritual level and you are ready to commence working for Me.”
(Condensed from what the Word says and thus these are my words in an
abbreviated way).
Level 3 – The Believers / Spiritual Level
As we continue we may ask; what does this powerful chapter
of Shemos – Exodus say that touches the faithful in Messiah Yahushua?
Well beloved, Moshe is obviously a picture, a type of
Yahushua our Master and Saviour. Although Moshe was this only in part. Let us
look at this typology …
|
Moshe Servant – Psalm
105:26 Chosen – Psalm
106:23 Prophet –
Deuteronomy 18:15-19 Priest – Psalm
99:6 King –
Deuteronomy 33: 4-5 Judge – Exodus
18:13 Shepherd –
Exodus 3: 1, Isaiah 63: 11 Leader – Psalm
77;20, Isaiah 63:12, 13 Mediator – Exodus 33: 8, 9 Intercessor – Numbers 21: 7 Deliverer – Acts 7:35 Other similarities between Exodus & Pharaoh charged all his people, saying
“Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river.” Exodus
1:22, Acts 7:19 By faith he forsook He supposed his brethren would have
understood but they understood not. Acts 7: 25 Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:27 This Moshe whom they refused … the
same did Elohim send to be a ruler and deliverer. Acts 7:35 Let my people go…Exodus 9:13 Please Note: I have not added the
Hebrew/Greek names of books. |
Yahushua My servant – Matthew 13:18 Whom I have chosen Isaiah 42:1 The Prophet – Priest – Hebrews 7:24 King – Acts 17:7 Judge – Shepherd – Leader – Isaiah 55:4 One Mediator – 1 Intercessor – Romans 8:34 Deliverer – Romans 11: 26, 1
Thessalonians 1: 10 Ruler – Micah 5:2 the Brit Chadashah – New Covenant “ Out of His own received Him not. Elohim hath made that same Yahushua, whom
ye have crucified, both Lord and Messiah. Acts 2:36 To proclaim liberty to the captives.
Isaiah 61:1 That at the name of Yahushua every knee
should bow. Philippians 2:10. Please Note: I have not added the
Hebrew/Greek names of books. |
This list also contains many contrasts between Moshe and
Messiah Yahushua, such as ...
“For the Torah, the Law was given through Moshe.
Moshe’s personal Exodus was incomplete for he did not
cross into the land of promise due to sin:
“Elohim said to Moshe … “Go up to the top
of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with
your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this
Moshe -
“YHVH Elohim will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from among your own brothers. You must listen to Him.” Davarim -
Deuteronomy 18:15.
These words written by Moshe were taken by Yahushua unto
Himself when He came. Yahushua’s Exodus was complete for He rose to be
with the Father for He had “no spot nor blemish” – He was
without sin!
“They spoke about his departure (Exodus), which He
was about to bring to fulfilment at
Thus, as we study the life of Moshe, we are also seeing
Yahushua in so many of the details. We see Moshe raised in a glorious Palace
with all the glory of a prince. Then we see him in the wilderness alone as a
humble shepherd. But whilst he was a prince he lived in a palace for he was
Egyptian royalty, yet later he was all alone in the wilderness, becoming a Good
Shepherd, learning how to look after his sheep and then he became
Elohim’s chosen man to lead His people out of slavery. Yes, I certainly
see much more than just a shepherd when I look at Moshe.
Secondly, I see in the distance the
You see it is not just what we are saved from …
It is what you are Saved to.
It is not just getting out of
It is getting into Canaan, the
land of Promise.
It is not just getting out of sin …
It is getting into Righteousness.
It is not getting out of Evil …
It is getting into Good.
In Conclusion
Beloved, Moshe had this double purpose and that is why I am
closing this chapter by saying that the Book of Shemos - Exodus is not just an escape
story, but it is an elopement. It is a story of a covenant made
between Elohim and His people.
Shemos
- Exodus 2:23-25 states.
“Now it happened in the process of time that the king
of
This is the epilogue of our study so far. Although
After around 400 years, when they should have been
listening to their Elohim and praying unto Him in relation to returning to
their own land,
Still, their Elohim heard their cry. He did not say
“I won’t talk to you,” for He had not spoken to them for all
those long years. As there is nothing written from the time of Yoseph -
“I heard your cry, I have seen your pain, and I remembered
My promise which I made with your fathers.”
And
therein we discover the greatest blessing of the Almighty, His Everlasting
Promise, for Elohim remembers His Word! It does not matter how long it
has been, if He made a promise, He will keep it.
Tehillim - Psalm 105 verse 8 also makes this quite clear …
“ZaChar LeOlam BeRito DaVar TziVah LeElev Dor”
"He (
Beloved, you can always claim a
promise of Elohim, because He will keep it no matter how long we may have been
away from Him. You can always come back, yes even those who have backslidden,
and claim the promise, for Elohim will hear and remember.
Thus Elohim saw and said, the
time has come for Me to do something with Moshe and with My people
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“Teach me Your way, O YHVH. I will walk in Your truth.
UNITE MY HEART TO FEAR YOUR NAME!”
May YHVH Elohim bless and keep you in the palm of
His hand always, in Messiah Yahushua’s loving Name!
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