Knowing History: Moses

Act One: The setup, where characters and the setting are introduced.

Act Two: The confrontation, where the main conflict develops.

Act Three: The resolution, where the story concludes and conflicts are resolved. While this is a common framework, it's important to note that not all films strictly adhere to this structure. 

Focal Passage

Act 1 - Setting Things Up

Acts 7:17–29 ““But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive. At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house, and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.”

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Act 2 pt. 1 - The Conflict With Pharaoh

Act 2 pt. 2 - The Conflict With His Own People

Exodus 15: Grumbling and Bitter to Sweet Water

Exodus 16: Grumbling and Manna

Exodus 17: Quarreling and Water From The Rock

Exodus 18: Arguments and Judges

Exodus 20: The 10 Commandments Given

Exodus 32: The Golden Calf

Leviticus 10: Strange Fire and The Death of Aaron’s Sons

Numbers 11: The People Complain Over Meat

Numbers 12: Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

Numbers 14: The People Refuse To Go Into the Promised Land

Numbers 14: The People Demand To Go Into the Promised Land

Numbers 16: Korah’s Rebellion

Numbers 20: Quarreling and Moses Strikes The Rock… Again

Numbers 21: Complaining and The Bronze Serpent

Numbers 25: Israelites Sacrifice To Other Gods

We Must Guard Ourselves When Responding Rather Than Reacting To Others

Act 3 - Resolution… Or Setting Up The Sequel

Deuteronomy 18:15–16 ESV

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

Moses Is A Foreshadow of Jesus

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