File No. 24

EXODUS 1:1 – 2:10;

Genesis 50:22–26; Psalm 105:24,25; Acts 7:17–22; Hebrews 11:22–23

THE BABY MOSES

Printable Version

(SBS Bk 1 Story No 34 & 35)

Story Notes

Exodus is the story of Israel’s birth as a nation. It fulfilled promises made to Abraham that God would make of him a great nation. Here was a people in whom God would reveal his power, with a view to blessing all the nations.

The national history of the people of God began with Moses and Israel but it was brought to fullness when Jesus died and rose again, to set his people free — people from all nations.

Exodus 1:1–22

God’s blessing (expressed in vigorous growth in numbers) was unstoppable, and caught the attention of the Egyptians among whom Israel lived. On the other hand, the anxious nationalism of Egypt was expressed in repression and then genocide.

Exodus 2:1–10  

In this most improbable and threatening of circumstances, Moses was born, protected and brought up as a grandson of Pharaoh.

© Grant Thorpe 1999