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Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Find in Worldcat. The authorship of these and Genesis collectively called the Pentateuch has been ascribed to Moses since earliest times; hence they are called the Books of Moses. The first five books of the Bible are called Torah In Judaism. Moses lived in constant touch with God, who guided him in leading all Israel out of Egypt and across the desert. God through Moses, made a covenant with the Hebrews, promulgated the Law, including the Ten Commandments, gave the criminal code and lays out rites of worship and laws of communal and personal behavior.
Moses in other religions. Various religions and confessions parse the Ten Commandments differently. Thus Orthodox Christianity divided the second commandment on two parts, and combine this first part with the first commandment. Feast: September 17 new style Orthodox Church. Catholic and Lutheran combine the first two commandments and divide the tenth.
Moses has also been an important symbol in American history. African Americans struggling for freedom from oppression have turned for inspiration to Moses. Major works: Moses passed on his people from God the Law, including the Ten Commandments, criminal code, rites of worship and laws of communal and personal behavior. He was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.
Moses had a brother Aaron and sister Miriam. Ministry: One day, God revealed himself in a burning bush and called Moses to deliver the Israelites from Egypt. After that the Pharaoh let them go, but then sent his army to destroy them. Moses with the help of God parted the waters of the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to pass, then drowned the pursuing Egyptians. During the journey across the desert they often rebelled against him, but by his intercession they were given manna for food.
In his old age, when the Hebrews were at the Jordan River ready to cross, God gave Moses a view of the Promised Land from the mount Nebo, but he did not enter it a punishment for an earlier moment of disobedience to God. According to some reports, he had led to the Promised Land more than thousand people. Moses died before he could enter the Promised Land at the age of and was buried in Moab on mountain Nebo by God Himself, and his final resting place is unknown.
His story is filled with miracles and talks with God. Jesus referred to this heavenly manna. Your fathers did eat bread in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
The manna was a type of Christ. As it provided life for all Israel, so Christ will provide life for all mankind. As always, Moses took the matter to the Lord. This time the situation had become very serious for, as Moses said, the people were almost ready to stone him.
Behold I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. In I Corinthians Paul refers to the experiences of Israel in passing through the Red Sea, partaking of the manna, and drinking from the rock.
He speaks of the nation as being baptized into Moses in the sea and in the cloud, as spiritual Israelites are baptized into Christ. In Numbers we have another account of water coming out of the rock.
This was at Kadesh. How did he not believe God? He should not have smitten the rock. The rock was a type of Christ, and the lesson is important. Christ was to be smitten only once, for all. Only the elders were present at the first smiting, picturing the few, the little flock of the Gospel age.
The whole assembly was together at the second bringing forth of water, picturing the blessing of the water of life, which will be to the whole assembly of man—all the families of the earth. He was in the mountain forty days, and when he came down bearing the tables of the Law, he found that the people had erected a golden calf and were worshiping it. This angered Moses and he destroyed the tables of the Law. While this proclamation was being made to Moses, the commandments were written on the tables of stone, and Moses returned and presented them to the people.
Here again, then, we have the experiences of Moses brought over into the New Testament and shown to be typical of a greater work to be accomplished through Christ. In Hebrews 12 Paul calls attention to other experiences in connection with the giving of the Law through Moses which were typical.
As Moses, in the type, was mediator of the original Law Covenant, so Christ, and associated with him his church, will administer the laws of the promised New Covenant through which all the willing and obedient of the Millennial Age will receive everlasting life. Some years later, while still in the wilderness, the Israelites again complained to Moses and asked why they had been brought out into the wilderness to die.
The Lord was displeased with this lack of faith and permitted the people to be attacked by fiery serpents, causing the death of many. Then Moses was instructed to make a serpent of brass and set it upon a pole and explain to the people that if those who had been bitten by the live serpents would look upon this serpent of brass they would not die.
Jesus refers to this incident. Groceries or Tithing? Charlotte Arnold. Growing in the Gospel Douglas Zardo. Scripture Study on the Road Roger Crist. Families Are Forever Alison Affeltranger. Following is artwork that captures major events from the life of Moses.
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