In this study we will take a look at the miracles that Yahweh performed on the Egyptians, when Israel was held in bondage, during this period in Exodus. We will see that those miracles were against the Egyptian deities or gods that they worshipped.
The story of Moses is not just the story of the freedom of a group of slaves from Egypt in the second millennium BCE. It is the blueprint of the Plan of Salvation of the world as seen from the structure laid down in the Bible.
Moses was the prototype of the Christ or Messiah. More importantly, the nation of Israel saw Moses as a prototype and the Bible record illustrates that point. Moses said: ‘And Yahweh said unto me, they have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.’
In this study we will picked it up in Chapter 4 verse 24 to Chapter 5 verse 3
24 The account in this and the following verse is very obscure. Some suppose that verse 23 is not a part of the message to Pharaoh, but was spoken by Yahweh to Moses;
The meaning of the whole passage seems to be this: The son of Moses, Gershom or Eliezer, (for it does not appear which), had not been circumcised, though it would seem that Yahweh had ordered the father to do it; but as he had neglected this, therefore Yahweh was about to have slain the child, because not in covenant with him by circumcision, and thus he intended to have punished the disobedience of the father by the natural death of his son. Zipporah, getting acquainted with the nature of the case and the danger to which her first-born was exposed, took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son. By this act the displeasure of Yahweh was turned aside, and Zipporah considered herself as now allied to Yahweh because of this circumcision. According to the law, (Gen. 17:14), the uncircumcised child was to be cut off from his people, so that there should be no inheritance for that branch of the family in Israel. Moses therefore, for neglecting to circumcise the child, exposed him to this cutting off, and it was but barely prevented by the prompt obedience of Zipporah. As circumcision was the seal of that justification by faith, which comes through Yahshua Messiah, Moses by neglecting it gave a very bad example, and Yahweh was about to proceed against him with that severity which the law required. Many Jewish commentators seemed to think that Moses became ill. And in this sudden illness of Moses he postpone the circumcision
25 Cut off = “kârath” “kaw-rath'” “kaph-resh-thet” “aleph-tav”
Kaph = (open palm) bend, open, allow, tame
resh = (head of a Man)front, head, chief, first, top, beginning
tet/thet = ( clay basket) surround, contain, mud
Aleph = (ox) strength, strong, power, leader
Tav = (cross) sign, covenant seal, mark and cross
A cutting off or down of anything. Often used as a cutting of the covenant in the sense that the sacrificial animal is cut in half
Cast it at his feet = Showing at once her abhorrence of the rite, and her feeling that by it she had saved her husband’s life.
A bloody husband = “a husband of blood,” or “bloods.” The meaning is: The marriage bond between us is now sealed by blood. By performing the rite, Zipporah had recovered her husband; his life was purchased for her by the blood of her child.
26 So he let him go = Yahweh withdrew His visitation from Moses.
Moses sent Zipporah and her children back to Jethro before he went to Egypt, Exod. 18:2. The journey would have been delayed had he waited for the healing of the child.
27 mount of Elohim = Horeb. The wilderness is the one between Horeb and Egypt.’
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