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Moses Returns To Egypt
 
Moses looked after the flocks of Jethro his father in law for forty years. One day he took them to the back side of the desert. He came to the mountain of God that was called Horeb.

While there Moses noticed something very strange. He saw a bush that was burning, but it was still green. He went a little closer to get a better look. A voice from the bush called out, "Moses, Moses." Moses replied, "Here am I." The voice then told him not to come any closer and to take off his shoes for the ground where he was standing was holy ground.

Moses quickly obeyed. He found out the voice speaking to him was God's. God had heard the cries of all the Israelite slaves and He was going to send Moses back to Egypt to free them. Moses could not believe his ears. Who was he that God would want him to go back to Egypt to free his people? God said that He would be with Moses and performed miracles to convince him.

Moses put forward every possible reason that he could think of to God why he could not do as he was asked. But God had an answer for every reason. Finally Moses asked God whom he should tell the Israelite people had sent him to free them. God said, "I AM THAT I AM: . . . say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

Moses returned home to Jethro his father in law and asked him for permission to let him return to Egypt. Jethro told him to go in peace. Moses placed his wife Zipporrah and their two sons on an ass and left for Egypt.

Along the way the Lord met Moses and nearly killed him because he had not circumcised his son. Circumcision was a sign given by God to show that a man was part of God's chosen nation. If a male child was not circumcised he was to be killed. Zipporah realising what was wrong grabbed a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it down at Moses feet.

The Lord spared Moses because of Zipporah's actions. But because of this Moses decided that it probably was not safe for his family to return to Egypt with him. So he sent them back to Jethro where they would be safe.

Moses continued on his journey to Egypt. God was not finished with the surprises for Moses. At the mountain of God he saw a man. It looked like, surely it couldn't be, but the man did look like his brother Aaron. It was! What a reunion they had. Oh! and how much they had to tell each other. Not just what had happened over the last forty years, but all that God had told them. The two men talked as they returned to Egypt.

Upon their arrival in Egypt they gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. They repeated all that God had told them and showed the signs that God had told them to show. All the people believed and worshipped God.

Now came an even harder job. Moses and Aaron had to go in unto Pharaoh. They told Pharaoh that their God had appeared to them and gave this message, "Let my people go into the wilderness so they may hold a feast."

Pharaoh wanted to know who this God was, and why he should obey Him. Pharaoh asked for a sign. Aaron threw his rod down and it became a serpent. Pharaoh turned to his magicians, they threw their rods down and they became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods, which is something the magicians could not do.

Pharaoh was not impressed. He said that he did not know the Lord and that he would not let all his servants, the Israelites go.

Moses and Aaron warned Pharaoh that if he did not let them go, plagues would come upon Egypt. Pharaoh said that the people must not have enough work to do if they wished to go away for awhile. So he ordered that they do more work than before, and that the taskmasters were no longer to give them straw to make bricks. He also ordered Moses and Aaron out of his sight.

The next morning Moses and Aaron again came before Pharaoh who was by the river. They told Pharaoh to let their people go. Pharaoh refused, so Aaron reached out with his rod and touched the water. The water turned to blood. All the fish died. The river began to stink. They told Pharaoh that all the water, even the water in sealed pots, in all of Egypt was now turned to blood. Pharaoh's magicians duplicated the miracle. This hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not let the children of Israel go.

When God asks us to do things we sometimes think that those things should run smoothly because it is God's will. But as we can see from this story this is not always true.

(Exodus 3:1 - 22; 4:1 - 31; 5:1 - 8; 7:8 - 24.)
 
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