Moses, Rescuing Prophet

#INTRO: What is a Prophet?

Series: Connecting OT figures anticipating Christ, Advent Season

[P.Jared] Adam (Son of God), Heal relationship, restore son/daughtership

Moses (Rescuing prophet)

What is a prophet?

"Nabi"

Spoke words of God

Told the future?? Not so much... sometimes forecast judgment!

Convince Isr. to turn from sin & fix brokenn.

Warned of Day of the LORD!

Rarely in concrete, nor precise terms // Only be confirmed in hindsight to be true!

Prophets today?

Perhaps in diff. function (perhaps), but can hear/see areas needing correction & boldly speak against to initiate change

Sidenote: Need spirit of prph. today! Not foretellers... ppl to boldly combat what is wrong - INside, more than OUTside of Church.

Don't like to hear Church critiqued... push back; like Isr. in that way.

Sometimes, need reality check. Weigh that w/ HS

God sent humans to comm. FOR Him.

After Adam's descendants break relat'p; Abraham (elected remnant)'s family ends up outside of the promised land (God's home base)

Find themselves enslaved & imprisoned by a new evil that "knew not Joseph" nor His God.

God's people pleaded for someone to save them.

#BIGIDEA: God Saves

Moses, The Rescuer

Find baby Moses unnamed, facing grave peril!

Egypt against Isr.; forcing babies into Nile R.

Floating in a 'ark' in river's waters... carried to the ENEMY! *dundundunnn*

However, God uses this as a proph moment:

Named by Pharoah's daughter: "Mose" in Egyptian

"son of..." Possibly connected with E. deity, possibly open-ended??

In Heb, sounds like "masha'" - to draw out.

Exodus 2:10 She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water."

Intentionally, Moses' name does NOT mean "drawn out", but "one who draws out from the water"...

Moses' name is a forecast of later miracle at the Red Sea!

Rescuer or "Redeemer"

God would lead Moses to an ID crisis, use his hot temper to pull him away from Eg. palace to a desert wandering;

In this place, God shaped a new Moses

Called by YAH’s own Messenger to rescue the Jewish ppl.

Moses was the image/repr. of God to Pharaoh and called down 10 div. judg'ts upon Egypt

Micah 6:4 "I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. I sent Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam.

"Redeem" = Heb: pada! To rescue or pay the price for…

Stephen's speech to sanhedrin

Acts 7:35 “[Moses] was sent to be [Israel's] ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush."

God did unthinkable by sending Moses, a servant, to take down grandest empire (& gods) at that time.

God is truly the best rescuer!

God proved His love and faithfulness to a stiff-neck'd people!

Again and again, came to their rescue over the years - Moses was prototype!

This deliverance may be from any number of circumstances, including famine and war (Job 5:20), oppression and violence (Ps. 72:14), adversaries (Job 6:23; Ps. 69:18; Jer. 15:21), Sheol and death (Ps. 49:15; Hos. 13:14), and iniquities (Ps. 130:7–8).

Either by Div. Interv'n or via obedient human emissary, YH showed/s His best way & best love...

...to humans who would inevitably betray Him.

"Still people went their own way..."

On the day they became a fledgling nation under YHWH’s close personal care, they sinned with an idol.

Torah closes with a reminder of who/what we should be looking for in a prophet.

Deuteronomy 18:15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.”

Deuteronomy 34:10–12 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, 11 who did all those signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. 12 For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Jesus, The Rescuer

God would commish. two unlikely people to usher in one who is greater than Moses! We read in:

Matthew 1:20-21 “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,  because he will save his people from their sins.”

A poor craftsman and his young wife are selected to bear one about whom many ancient promises had been spoken.

Psalm 130:8 [YHWH] himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.

"redeem" = pada!

Same power on display at Red Sea would be working through this man, to bring about freedom from the curse - straying from God's bless'd way!

In fact, Jesus soon in similarly vulnerable pos. as Moshe...

Coup yrs after born in barn.... king of Judea condemns peers! Death to toddlers.

This time, EGYPT becomes the hiding place from a new Pharaoh - Herod! Flees the chaos of imminent death.

Yrs. after that, Jesus' baptism into waters initiated an ultimate rescue plan!

Day of the LORD moment! God intervenes to save mightily

Jesus heads into the wild'ss for His test, then comes home to read this in syn.:

Luke 4 / Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners

"freedom" - HEB: deror / LXX: aphesis; 'release'

Jesus made his mission clear immediately - freedom!

Most common word used to describe forgiveness.

Who was that poem about? YHWH! Coming to save and redeem and heal and to judge. -- DotL!

Jesus connects His marching orders to freedom && year of Jubilee!

People enslaved - not to Rome, but to themselves, to the [Paul calls] "powers"...

#CHALLENGE: Rescue like Jesus!

Jesus is the superior Moses!

The ancient lawgiver, while, true to YHWH and closer than most, still misrepresented Him at Meribah.

Allowed his anger to get the best of him.

Sin prevented him from entering into His rest.

Hebrews 3:3 “Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.”

Jesus Rescues Us.

So we can Rescue [w His help].

famine & war (Job 5:20)

oppression and violence (Ps. 72:14)

adversaries (Job 6:23; Ps. 69:18; Jer. 15:21)

iniquities (Ps. 130:7–8).