Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)
- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.
Journal 4-3: Study Packet, Page 11
- Read Exodus 2:1-10:
- - What tribe (or ‘house’) was Moses from?
- - How many months did his mother hide him?
- - What did she put Moses in? Why?
- - - Did she follow Pharaoh’s order? (careful…)
- - Who found Moses?
- - - What did she look for next? Who did she get?
- - - What did she end up doing with Moses?
- - What does ‘Moses’ sound like in Hebrew?
- - How did God show He is in control (sovereign) through this?
Exodus 1-2: Israel Grows, Egypt Attacks, God Prepares) Study Packet, Page 2
Israel Grows & Egypt Fears:
- For ~400 years Israel grows so much that…
- - Egypt fears & enslaves them
- - This makes Israel’s life bitter & hard!
- Pharaoh wants to make them smaller—
- - He commands the midwives to kill the male boys
- - - Midwives: Nurses who deliver babies
- - - Two Key Midwife heroes named: Shiphrah & Puah
- - The midwives feared God & didn’t obey Pharaoh’s sin
- Therefore, Pharaoh commanded everyone to throw Hebrew baby boys into the Nile River
Moses’ First 40 Years:
- One family save a son…
- - They put him in a basket in the Nile River, having his older sister, Miriam, watch to see what happened
- - - This area was a gentle part of the Nile
- - - Pharaoh’s daughter bathed here
- - - - She came out, found the child, had compassion, & adopted him
- - Miriam came to Pharaoh’s daughter and…
- - - Volunteered to help her hire a Hebrew mother as a nurse—
- - - She got their own mom!
- - Pharaoh’s daughter named the boy “Moses”
- - - This means: To draw out (since he was drawn out of the Nile)
- - - - And… later he draws Israel out of slavery!
- When 40 years old
- - Moses murdered an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew.
- - Pharaoh found out & sentenced Moses to death—
- - So Moses fled to Midian.
Moses’s Next 40 Years:
- Moses meets Jethro/Reuel (a priest)
- - He marries his daughter, Zipporah,
- - Together, they have 2 sons
- Meanwhile Israel groaned in their slavery!
- - They cried out for help—
- - And God heard them!
- - - He remembered His covenant
- - - He felt concern!
Moses at 80 Years Old:
- God gets Moses’ attention by a burning bush that doesn’t burn up!
- - God shares His personal name w/Moses—I AM
- - - Also known as: the LORD, YHWH, Yahweh, & Jehovah
- - - God isn't limited by this name!
- - - - He’s not just… 'God of Canaan' or 'God or Rain'
- - - - He is the God Who Is!
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