Journaling today a memory picture came across my phone today.
My heart was longing for a puppy. It had been a few years since I had a dog. My daughter called and asked if I’d like to take a drive, go out in the country, and look at some puppies, so off we went.
In the basket was this spotted little head that we both fell in love with.
He was super quiet on the road back. I thought only time would tell what his personality would be like. Well, he has one, that’s for sure. Personality plus.
Moses’ name means” drew him out, of a basket…
Naming him Moses gives us so many opportunities to share the story of Moses in the Bible just by people asking why we named him Moses.
Even at the groomers and the Veterinary Clinic. They have said, “This is the 1st time we’ve heard Moses.” Why did you name him that?
Once, down at the boat dock, a couple heard us call out his name. They came over and said, “We were taken back a minute trying to figure out who this Moses was. They took a look and said, “his name fits him.”
The book of Exodus tells us about Baby Moses
Exodus 2
The word ‘papyrus basket’ is used only here and for Noah’s ark.” H8392 ( tēḇâ )The Hebrew would be better translated by;(basket vessel)little ark.
The word is used elsewhere only of Noah’s ark.”
Jochebed (Baby Moses’ Mommy) placed Moses in a waterproof basket, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. And his sister stood afar off. She released him in the flow of the River Nile to save his life.
The daughter of the Pharoah (of the Egyptians) came down to bathe at the river and saw the basket with the baby inside, and the cry of baby Moses melted her heart.
He was saved.
It was God’s will that this woman of royal birth saved Israel’s savior.
Exodus 1:15-16 The Pharaoh of Egypt tries to destroy Israel by ordering the death of all male babies.
15-16 “Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah, and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
The Hebrew midwives (women who assisted in delivering babies) did not honor Pharaoh’s command because they feared God.
Then, Pharaoh sent a new command.
Exodus 1:22
“Every son who is born you shall cast into the river: Seeing that his plan did not work, Pharaoh’s next command was even more diabolical that all male children should be killed.”
His parents obeyed God first
Exodus 2:2-3
“[because] They saw that Moses was a ·beautiful baby [or special child], and they were not ·afraid to disobey [intimidated by; afraid of] the king’s order.”
The parents of Moses’ who chose life for their son did not do this only because of the natural parental instinct; they did it also out of faith in God. They knew He alone would protect him.
Hebrews 11:23 describes the faith of Moses’ parents: (Hebrews 11:23 Expanded Bible)
23 “It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born.”
We know the drowning of the army of Pharaoh in the Sea Red Sea as the children of Israel escaped out of Egypt.
Including the Pharaoh’s son and heir, who died in the tenth plague.
If the boy had had parents as Moses did, who believed in the Lord God and would have placed the blood of the Passover lamb over their doorposts. Their son would have lived.
Moses and Jesus were both in Egypt and came out of Egypt
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus find refuge in Egypt.
Matthew clarifies that even as Israel as a nation came out from Egypt, so would the Son of God.
Joseph had a dream, and the Angel gave him instructions that saved Baby Jesus’ life and fulfilled the Word of God.
“Out of Egypt, I called My Son” Hoses 11:1
Matthew 2:13-15
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus find refuge in Egypt.
“Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.” When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
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Matthew 2:16-18
Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted because they are no more.”
Jeremiah 31:15
When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night
Joseph and Mary took baby Jesus and traveled more than 1,240 miles) from the time they fled to Egypt to escape the massacre of boys two years old and younger ordered by Herod to their arrival in Nazareth, according to an expert.
When Herod the Great died, an angel again appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead” (Mt 2:20).
Joseph went to the region of Galilee and settled in Nazareth, where Jesus grew up.
Nazareth was Jesus’ hometown, and this was the place from which he identified.
Our Moses has grown up, but his eyes have stayed so sweet. He carries things that he loves.
