In Genesis 7 is the interesting statement: Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.” v. 1. In the commentary below it said God made Moses “like God to Pharaoh” – in other words, a powerful person who deserved to…

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” Exodus 6:1. Pharaoh didn’t let the Israelites go because Moses and Aaron told him God told…

When Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh in Exodus 5 to give him the message from God to let the Israelites go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to Him, Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not…

Moses was having a difficult time believing God knew what He was doing. “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” Exodus 4:1. “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your…

Exodus 3 tells the remarkable encounter Moses had with God and the burning bush. In reading Exodus I’m trying to imagine what it was like for Moses. He wouldn’t remember his mother saving his life when he was only 3 months old, but he knew what it was to be brought up in the home…

For any of us who have sons, brothers, fathers, how can we begin to understand an edict that any male babies had to be thrown into the Nile? How can we begin to understand that kind of cruelty? That comes from a heart that does not know love. We’ve all read the story in Exodus…

How many people have been enslaved in the history of mankind? Slavery is an ugly word and an even uglier reality for those enslaved. It’s also an ugly reality of a persons heart who enslaves. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor and they built Pithom and Ramses as…

With Jacob’s passing in Genesis 50, not only Joseph and his brothers and their families, but the Egyptians also mourned for 70 days. So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them: They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham…

In Genesis 49 Jacob’s sons are gathered around him. An end of an era. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob has watched his sons throughout their lives as only a father can. Our Father knows each of us as only He can. He knows our thoughts, our hearts, all of us. I wonder what God would…

In Genesis 48 Jacob is ill and Joseph brings his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him to be with Jacob. Jacob claimed Manasseh and Ephraim as his own. “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be…