Moses- Man or Myth?

 MOSES was born  under the shadow of death.  His people were a group of nomadic families who had settled in Egypt with their father Jacob, Or Israel, to escape starvation. For decades they had coexisted peacefully with their Egyptian neighbors.  But then came an ominous change.  A respected historical report says: "There arose over Egypt a new king . . . and he proceeded to say to his people: Look! the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we are.  Come and deal shrewdly with them, for fear they may  multiply."  The plan? To control the Israelite population  by making them "slaves under tyranny" and then by ordering the midwives to kill any male children that they delivered.  (Exodus 1:8-10, 13, 14)  Because of the courage of their midwives who refused to obey the order, the Israelites prospered nevertheless.  Hence, Egypt's king decreed:  "Every newborn son you are to throw into the river Nile." - EXODUS 1:22. 

One Israelite couple. Amram and Jochebed,  "did not fear the order of the king."  (Hebrews 11:23)  Jochebed gave birth to a son who would later be described as "divinely beautiful."  (Acts 7:20)  Perhaps they somehow discerned that this child was favored by God.  In any event, they refused to give their child up for execution at the risk of their own lives, they decided to conceal him. 

After three months, Moses' parents could no longer hide him.  Running out of options, they took action.  Jochebed place the infant in a papyrus vessel  and set him afloat in the Nile River. Unwittingly , she was launching him into history! - EXODUS2:3, 4. 

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