Exodus chapter one saw a frustrated Pharaoh taking ever stronger measures to destroy Israel. The strongest measure yet is stated in 1:22, "Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."
So now Pharaoh has involved the Egyptians and one of their gods in the fight against Israel. The Egyptians worshipped the Nile River. We Americans are really not any better. Americans may not worship the Mississippi. But American idolatry worships what the Nile River meant to the Egyptians. It meant the good economy and many worship the god of the good economy today. People often time vote based solely on whether they believe the candidate running will be good for the economy-even though the candidate may be for throwing male and female babies into the Nile as it were in their support for Abortion on Demand.
Exodus two begins with a specific story about a baby boy born under the ban of 1:22. We have reason to think that the practice of genocide against the baby boys of Israel was not rigorously enforced over the years. It would seem that it eventually became a dead law. But the point made as we begin Exodus two is that it was being rigorously enforced when baby Moses was born into the world. And baby Moses wasn’t just any ole baby. He was destined to be the deliverer of his enslaved people. And as such he anticipates a greater deliverer-namely Jesus.
The route we will take as we look at the narrative about the birth of Moses the deliverer.
-1st-Moses the deliverer -2nd-Pharaoh the defeated -3rd-Israel the drilled or indoctrinated
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