Posted by Steve Benjamin (by Proxy) on September 8, 2009, 8:00 am
Monday, Exodus Chapter 2
So in chapter 1, we see the Hebrews are placed with taskmasters who
give them hardship. Technically,
They are slaves as far back as Joseph, but Only Joseph is recorded to
have gone into Slavery, all those others who sold themselves to
Pharaoh, Hebrew, Canaanite and Egyptian alike, all did so because they
were starving, but did the family of Jacob have such motivation? No,
they didn’t they were living like fat cats taking care of ALL of
Pharaoh’s cattle, and by the time everyone is selling their land and
their own bodies into slavery in service to Pharaoh to get food from
Joseph, they sold their cattle off long before, and so when everyone
went into Slavery, the Priests of Egypt didn’t get bought, nor their
lands, and why not, because they had no motivation to sell themselves
so, they had a portion of food given them of Pharaoh anyway. So by
the time everyone was selling themselves into slavery, Pharaoh owned
ALL of the cattle, and who was placed in charge of it? The family of
Jacob. In vs 27 of Genesis 47, we see when everyone else is in
slavery to Egypt, and broke, Israel not only dwelt in Goshen, but had
possessions in the land. So only Joseph was ever truly a slave to
Egypt, and he was elevated to Ruler.
So by the time we get to Exodus, all those people died off, and the
Hebrews kept multiplying. We know at some point they go into bondage,
likely in similar fashion as Egypt went into slavery to Pharaoh in the
days of Joseph, in a final act of desperation after incrementally
losing everything, but the difference is, this hardship on the
Israelites of Exodus 1 and 2, was imposed on purpose, and the original
intent was to “GET THEM OUT OF THE LAND” and that’s how we know they
were not immediately slaves, but gradually became so. You got
slaves, you want to get rid of them, You kill them, or sell them, or
here is an easy option, you give em’ papers of emancipation, tell them
they are free, and they’ll go. Slaves are not hard to get rid of,
they are hard to keep. So we know at some point between Joseph and
Ramses 1, the people are no longer slaves, not as a whole, and we
know, technically the only one of the house of Israel who had been a
slave, was also later ruler of the land, Joseph. But we see the
formula by which through hardship, Joseph knowing it would get worse,
purchased almost all of the known world for Pharaoh, the formula by
which through hardship, some find themselves going into slavery, and
in Exodus 1, we see hardship intentionally imposed upon the Hebrews in
effort to make them leave, we see that plan fail, and we see then the
private decree, to use midwives to murder the males newborns to
decrease their population, then we see that fail, and then the PUBLIC
DECREE to slaughter all Male Hebrew Newborns given to ALL Egyptians,
not just the military, not the ATF, or the Pharaoh B EYE, but given to
ALL citizens of Egypt. Okay, at this point, if they aren’t all slaves
prior, they are certainly are now. You don’t go killing peoples
babies, and let them walk around free afterwards, not on that scale,
not an entire population whose numbers could tip the very balance of
power if war broke out.
So in Chapter 2, we see a Levite and his wife married, and have a
child. By the way, later, the Nation of Judah, known for two of the
tribes, Judah and Benjamin, was actually comprised of 3, the Levites
were the third. We See in the New Testament Christ Yehoshua was of
Judah, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah being a title ascribed upon him,
and also prophecied in The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ to
one day play a role in events to come. In Genesis 49 verse 10, we
see the messianic prophecy to “Shiloh” coming from Judah. In
Revelation 7, we see the Tribe Of Manneseh, we also see the Tribe of
Joseph, knowing Manesseh, a Son of Israel, adopted upon his deathbed
was also a son of Joseph, but what of Ephraim? Was there not tribe of
Ephraim? We shall see there was, and it is believed they went back
into the Tribe of Joseph, so it is entirely possible that in our day,
an Ephramite, could be counted as one coming from “THE TRIBE OF
JOSEPH.” My point here is to note the close proximity of the ties to
Judah by both Moses, and Yehoshua, if not the man, then certainly the
nation. You may wish to note beside vs 2 in your margin that “MOSES
WAS A LEVITE.”
We see Moses is born and his mother kept him for 3 months until she
could hide him no more, and so she made a basket and set him in the
river, and his sister is standing afar off, following the basket,
watching it to see what becomes of her brother, and witnesses the
daughter of Pharaoh, and she had compassion on the child, and adopts
him, then orders her servants to find a nurse of the Hebrew women to
watch over the child, and in verse 9, who do we see gets that
job…Moses very own mother, which explains a lot, lets us know how he
knew who he was, to identify himself with the Hebrews, as being one
himself, though raised in the house of Egyptian royalty.
Underline all of vs 9, all of vs 4, all of vs 15, and the last
statements in vs3, vs6, vs 8, vs 11, vs 13, vs 21, vs 22. Now we see
in vs 11 Moses witness an Egyptian kill a Hebrew and Moses gets angry,
and kills the Egyptian. Now mind you, just years before, ANY EGYPTIAN
could take a male child of the Hebrews and throw it in the river. Can
you imagine the contempt held by those who would commit such
atrocities?
Some fair Hebrew woman, who could not help the lust in the heart of
some promiscuous Egyptian Man, whose wife’s Jealousy grew to Hatred,
and in arrogance may have later walked up to the same fair Hebrew,
cursing her for her beauty in her heart, and taking the child from her
very arms and throwing him in the river, “How dare her look so good
and tempting in the sight of my husband!?!”
That decree given in Exodus 1:22 was a general Mandate by Pharaoh not
to his army, but to “ALL HIS PEOPLE” oh, those drunken braggarts with
too much wine and nothing better to entertain themselves bragging of
the number of infants slain by their hands. We see the contempt not
only of a people building, the hatred of the Enslaved Hebrews against
their masters, but of their God as well. Egypt had blood on it’s
hands. Not one, but every household, by participation or inaction,
they all had blood on their hands. How easy would have it been just
years following to kill a disobedient slave?
How easy to do likewise to an innocent slave and much easier so to
accuse him falsely to find the motive by which to justify the final
act?
Here Moses walks, a Hebrew, living as Royalty, and he knows right from
wrong, but he knows his heritage as well, and he kills a man in anger,
this sinful messiah to be, this murderer, he acts as Judge Jury and
Executioner not in a moment of rage, not in a moment of passion, but
he may have enraged, passionate, but he premeditates the act, we see
in vs 12, “He looked this way and that way, and when he saw there was
no man” then he did the deed, he made sure he could get away with the
act, he looked both ways, and then he slew the Egyptian and he burys
the body in the sand to hide the corpse, the proof of his deed.
At the birth of Moses, doubtful that there was any stir amongst the
people to a coming Messiah.
And if there was, such was not the motive for the slaying of all those
children as we later see of Herod in the days of the birth of
Yehoshua. IT was about population control, pure and simple. And with
so much atrocity, when some little bit of justice is exacted out on
this Egyptian for slaying a Hebrew, Moses is betrayed for his act, by
his own people. The heated jealousy that must have existed on the one
hand against Moses, and the petty deeds of those claiming “survival”
to get possibly an extra days portion for one meal, or similar petty
motive. How quickly, poverty will cause people to turn upon their
own…and we Moses passing by two Hebrew men, “Striving”…Fighting with
one another, and then Moses corrects the guy in the wrong who Punched
the other guy, and as he Rebukes the Hebrew Slave, he himself is
rebuked and we see the proof of this jealousy in the words of two
Hebrews in Exodus 2:14, and it caused Moses to Flee for fear of his
life and rightly so, as we see soon, even Pharaoh heard of the deed of
Moses. Somebody snitched Moses out.
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