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| Exodus 2:1-4 |
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Lesson # Exodus 2:1-4 Study Material - Exodus 2:1-4 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Ex. 2:1-4 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it, and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him. Amram and Jochebed are the parents of Moses, Ex. 6:20. From the time of Levi some 400 years have passed. Levi had a son, Kohath. Kohath had a son named Amram. Amram had a son Moses as well as another son some three years earlier, Aaron. Since Aaron was not hidden, then we can assume that the decree of Pharaoh came after the birth of Aaron but before Moses. Probably just prior to Moses birth. Aaron was not in danger of death, though he was only three years old. We read in these first few verses that great pains were taken to protect Moses from Pharaoh's order of death by drowning. Amram married his fathers sister, or his aunt. Both were descendants of Levi making Moses an exclusive member of the tribe of Levi. Centuries before Jacob had cursed Levi for his treachery, Gen. 49:5. But the disgrace would not prevent Moses from being a far better servant of God. Note quickly that no matter what your ancestors might have done, your ancestral past has nothing to do with your present life. You either make or break your own life. Likewise, your parental relationships have nothing to do with your life. Abraham married his sister. Amram married his aunt. Though this practice is frowned upon today, and for good reason, genetically speaking, still ones past or the circumstances of birth have nothing to do with ones opportunity to have a spiritual life. Your decisions in life are your determining factor as to whether you will have a good or bad life spiritually speaking. Someone else's decisions have no relevance to your spiritual life. Excuses that someone else has brought you to your doom is a wrong application of truth. Your life is what you make it. No one can blame anyone else. By the way, Levi lived 137 years, Kohath lived 133 years, and Amram lived 137 years. That is a total of 407 years. Of course Levi did not live all his life in Egypt, and each mans life overlapped to some extent before they had their next generation son. Moses lived 120 years also. Which would give us a total of 527 years out of which the Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years. They did not leave Egypt until Moses 80th birthday. This implies that each successive generation was born in the latter years of their respective fathers lives. In a manner similar to the age of Abraham, 100 years, when he had Isaac. Actually if you subtract Moses 80 years from the 430 total, that leaves 350 years for the span of the preceding generations. Also, note that the Israelites numbered 70 adult males in the beginning, and 600,000 adult males at the time of the exodus. Therefore, these men had more sons and daughters than are mentioned in the Ex. 6. Quite possibly the children mentioned were faithful to God through their respective generations, while many other Israelites were not. Heb. 11:23 tells us that Amram and Jochebed hid Moses by faith. As Moses was getting older and probably more difficult to keep quiet, or keep secret because of various things that accompany infant care - diapers, nursing mother, mom no longer fat with pregnancy so it is obvious that the child has been born, and so forth. Therefore the need to hide Moses. The river was the place that the children were to be taken to be killed, so that was the place for hiding Moses. A basket was water proofed and Moses placed inside then hid in the reeds along the river. Moses had an older sister, Miriam. She hid nearby to watch what might become of her little brother. Though Miriam's age is not given, she demonstrates tremendous maturity. She had her little infant brother resting in a basket on the river and pretty much set off all alone to whatever the world might have in store for the helpless child. And helpless is the key word here. Moses was in a hopeless and helpless state. As an infant he had no control over his life or his destiny. He could have sunk and drowned. He could have been eaten by some predator. But in grace, God cared for the child by bringing not only a caring person to find him, but the daughter of Pharaoh no less. The ruler commanded the death to all Hebrew male children. The basket was clearly Hebrew. The blankets were clearly Hebrew. The place of placement, in the river, was clearly an attempt to evade the Pharaoh's command. All things were set against Moses. Moses did not even have a name as yet. He was entirely in Gods hands. God has a plan for each persons life. He has a plan for your life, a specific plan. You had no control over your birth, nor will you have any say in the method or time of your death. But God will give you every opportunity to live a life that is in compliance with His will. He may give you many chances. He may allow you to live to a ripe old age. Then again he may cut your life short, too. Your attitude in life toward Bible doctrine determines whether or not your life will be one of blessing or misery. Remember that most of our misery comes from our own decisions, from our own defiant stubbornness against facing the truth. We can comply with the many of Gods commands, or we can pick and choose what we will and will not do, or we can simply ignore God altogether and think little of the spiritual component of our life. Following the former will bring great blessing, prosperity, and happiness. Living anything less than in total compliance with Gods commands will introduce misery into your life, in varying degrees. Others may make decisions that affect us, but in the long run, sooner or later, our life is dependent on God combined with our attitude toward Him. Moses had no say in the matter. His parents had no more options but to turn to God and let Him determine the outcome. Certainly they had great emotional pressures in doing what they did. The sister watched to see what would happen. She stood, as it were, over Moses like a guardian angel. And we each one of us have a Miriam 'angel' watching over us as well. If God has a plan for our lives, than neither the river (nature or our environment) nor man (society, cruel laws, etc.) can prevent that plan from being carried out. Moses was more safe in that basket than in his mothers arms. You and I are more safe in Gods care (in fellowship with doctrine) than in any other place on earth. Neither our wealth, our jobs, our titles, nothing we might consider advantageous to ourselves, can do better than God. There is always someone watching over us, and to that end, there is always someone witness to our spiritual successes in life or our failures. We have no right to judge others, nor even make reference to their failures if we know of them. We do not make or break their lives, just as no one else can make or break our own life. Jesus Christ controls history, not us. We have been given an opportunity to make our decisions for our own lives to some extent, but we cannot control the decisions of others that might affect us. And to that extent we are helpless in this world just as Moses was helpless in that basket. His world was the basket surrounded by a river. Our environment where ever we might live, is our basket in life. Inside that basket we are in doctrine, in fellowship, and under the protection of God. If we choose to jump out of the basket, then we suffer the miseries that are obvious. Where would a smart person choose to reside? 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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