We are in Exodus chapter two with our word for today used for the first time in the Bible in our chapter. מֹשֶׁה Moses, drawing out, deliverer, saved from water, remove, extract. It is used 765 times in the Old Testament as the name and 3 times as extracting with force. 2 Samuel 22:1, 17-18 David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul…He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he יַֽמְשֵׁ֖נִי drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. Exodus 2:5-10 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and...named him מֹשֶׁ֔ה Moses, “Because,” she said, “I מְשִׁיתִֽהוּ drew him out of the water.” I find it interesting that Moses started out his life being rescued or extracted from the danger of being drown by Pharaoh. And the life God calls him to is one of rescue. We have already seen how God is involved in the naming of people in the Bible and how it fits their life purpose God has for them. Here Moses name fits what God has called him to be and do with his life. Later in Moses life we see God calling him into his purpose of becoming the extractor or the one who draws out others from danger. Exodus 3:8, 10, 12, 15 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt… And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”…God also said to מֹשֶׁ֗ה Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ In addition to his work of leader rescuer God later inspires Moses to write a Psalm in addition to the first five books of the Bible. Psalm 90:1. The first part of the bible referred to as the Law are sometimes called the book of Moses or the Law of Moses because God used him to write what he wanted written. Ezra 6:18. Ezra 7:6. We also see Moses referred to as a priest. Psalm 99:6 מֹ֘שֶׁ֤ה Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord and he answered them. Moses is also identified as a leader or shepherd of God’s people. Micah 6:4 I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. I sent מֹשֶׁ֖ה Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam. Isaiah 63:11 Then his people recalled the days of old, the days of מֹשֶׁ֣ה Moses and his people— where is he who brought them through the sea, with the shepherd of his flock?
Moses is also a type of Christ that people were looking forward to his coming. John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” This type is also emphasized when Jesus is transfigured on the mountain when both Moses and Elijah appear with him and were talking to him, Matthew 17:3; Mark 9:4. Moses is a type of Christ in the he represents the law that Jesus came to fulfill and save us from. Jesus himself even acknowledges that he is predicted to come as a type of Moses. John 3:14. John 5:46. I’ll close with the prophecy predicting Jesus would come as a type of Moses. Acts 3:19-20, 22; Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus…For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.
