February 14th elevate review

We continued our study over viewing the life of Moses.

Taking the first few verses of chapter 2 in the book of Exodus we reviewed the general concept that bringing a child into such an unjust, violent, secular society was not the best time to be doing so.
We also remember that this was not the first time Moses 's parents had brought children into this world but actually the third. So bringing a child into an imperfect world has more to do with the relationship with God and your trust in his ability to override the world's influences than trusting in your own ability to know the perfect time to have a child.
(If you are waiting for the perfect time to have a child you will never have a child)
we took a look at the description that God leaves behind regarding Moses and the way he was blessed with good looks. Although every child is beautiful in the eyes of the parents is only one that was ever described as beautiful in the eyes of God. Because of his beauty his mother recognized that this child was set apart by God and proceeded to go through the necessary techniques it would take to hide this child from being seen by the Egyptian society.
We must remember that any Hebrew male child could be tossed into the Nile by any Egyptian who saw him.
In a miraculous feat she was able to hide the child for three months. It was my conjecture that she hid him on her body which is why after three months she had to hide him somewhere else because he was no longer small enough, or quiet enough to remain on her person undetected.

When she put it in the basket we got to imagine exactly why she might have done it. There were a few options.
Number one, she put him in a perfectly sealed basket and shoved him out in the river with hopes that he would make it out to the ocean and some nice fishermen would take him home and adopt him.
Number two, such she strategically pushed Moses into an area of the river where she knew the princess would be taking a bath in hopes that she would find him and have mercy on a Hebrew male baby and adopt him into the royal family.
Number three, she had given up hope that the baby would survive so she put them in a really nice basket for the crocodiles to come by and eat him.
Number four, she hit him in a waterproof basket in the thick reeds so that he would sleep, he rocked by the gentle motion of the river, and not be heard one he was hungry and crying. Then she told his older sister to an essence babysit him and when he was hungry to come get her so that she could feed him and thereby keep them hidden as she had for the previous three months.

As you can guess I'm going with number four, but it is in essence a guess so you get to have fun to .

Through a set of circumstances that only God could have orchestrated Moses was raised by his own family and the family was paid to do it. This of course is an illustration of God's ability to work through circumstances in a bizarrely anti-God world. And also a picture of the production consumption reality of the Egyptian society. That a princess could pay someone else to raise her child and then when the child was old enough to be taken away to the Egyptian universities the government walks into the only home that Moses has ever known, tells the family they are no longer worthy to raise this child and sticks him in a brand-new home, with a brand-new mommy and daddy, and sends them off to school to be trained up in the ways of the Egyptian royalty.
Moses becomes the first "foster child"

Moses grows in stature both as a leader and a military strategist.
He evidently also has a clear sense of his upbringing understanding that although he is the Egyptian royalty he is also connected to the Hebrew people.
We see him later in the chapter walking about observing the Hebrew people and the mistreatment that his government has placed on them. Within the essence of the Hebrew language this did not happen with one day's walk through a particular city. The idea is that Moses spent months and may be years observing the Hebrew people and how they had been slowly integrated into a slave society to support the consumption of the Egyptians. He also knew from his training at this was a systematic approach to control an ever-growing number of people/bored people that had moved into his nation several generations ago.

In a sudden turn of events Moses tries to in secret to exact judgment on an Egyptian for treating a Hebrew unfairly. He kills Egyptian and then buries Egyptian in the sand. The next day he continues to observe the Hebrew people and steps up to try and mediate peace between two Hebrews. They did not appreciate his leadership skills, nor did they want his influence or interruption.
They knew what he had done the day before and when Moses realized that the information we get ultimately back to Pharoah he packed up his stuff and headed out into the desert. We don't know what town/city Moses was in when he killed Egyptian, and we really have no idea how long it would take to get back to the palace. We do know that he left immediately.

We explored the idea that Moses probably was trying to exact justice on behalf of of the Hebrew people. We explored the possibility of a concept that Moses could have had the Egyptian killed through the military connections he had, the royal connections he had, or the personal connections he had.
Moses acted as Judge, jury, and executioner and by doing so short-circuited his opportunity to lead the Hebrew people, or to influence the Egyptian society through his high ranking in the royal family.
We saw that justice is not a partner with violence. And Moses paid the price by losing both his royal status, and his real family.