"MOSES BORN AND HID BY FAITH".

Press, 22 September 1980, Page 11

"MOSES BORN AND HID BY FAITH".

Th® Book of Exodus opens by giving a list of the names of the .children of Israel which came into Egypt? every man and his household who came-with Jacob. Meanwhile, their descendants were very fertile, increasing rapidly innumbers; there was a vertiable population explos-. ion so that they soon became a targe nation, and they filled the land of Goshen. Joseph died 144 years before Israel left Egypt or 64 years before’ Moses was bom. Then, eventually, a new King came to the Throne of Egypt who felt no obligation to the descendants of-

Joseph. He told his people, "These Israelis are becoming dangerous to us. because there are so many of them. Let’s figure out a way to put an end to this. If we don’t, and war breaks out, they • WiU join our enemies and fight against us and escape out of the country." So the Egyptians made staves of them. The more the Israelis were oppressed the more they . multiplied. In the end, .gripped by fear Pharaohcommanded all his people to throw th® new-born Hebrew boys into the Nile river, but the girls, he said, could live. There .was at this time a Hebrew man

and woman of the Tribe of Levi, who married and had a family. The father was Amram, the wife Jochebed! and their three' children Miriam, Aaron and Moses. We take it from the following story that Miriam was several years older than. her brothers. We do know that Aaron was three years older than Moses. In the birth of Moses, preparation Is made by God for Israel's deliverance from • Egypt.’. When Moses was bom Jochebed saw that he was an unusually beautiful child. She hid him at home for three months. Then, when she could no longer hide him, she made a little boat from papyrus weeds, waterproofed it with tar, put the baby in it, and laid it among the reeds along the river’s edge. Miriam, the baby's

sister, watched from a distance to see what would happen to him. Well, this is what happened: A Princess, one of Pharaoh's daughters, came down to bathe in the river, and as she and her maids were walking along the river bank, she spied the tittle boat among the reeds and sent one of the maids to ‘bring it to her. When she opened it, there was a baby, and he was crying. This touched her heart. "He must be one of the Hebrew children!" she said. Than Miriam approached th® Princes and asked her, "Shan 1 go and

find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you? "Yes, do!” and Jochebed, Moses' mother, was instructed to nurse him and look after him and "I will pay you well," said the Princess. When Moses was five years old, Jochebed brought her son Moses to .the Palace where he was to. live for thirty-five years.' This true story highlights the defeat of Satan, the preservation of a Nation, the fulfilment of prophecy, and the furtherance of God’s plan concerning the coming of the seed of the women. Monday's message from.-