Final Movements Will Be Rapid Ones. Part [11] 04/04/2025 Morning thought)

Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, surely this thing is known.

After years of the people wearing Moses’ patience thin, who knows, there may still be some answering chord, some latent, dormant tendency that has not been completely uprooted, that could be aroused if the right set of circumstances were to converge. Thus, he determines to try it once again. There must be some way that he could tick off Moses to the point where he will lose his cool, trip a fuse, and sin in the process, for that is the end game of every temptation; it’s always to get persons to sin.

And so, he goes to work through the people, as he moves upon them to bring again the old charge that Moses had led the multitudes into a wilderness full of hardship instead of leading them to Canaan. Thus accusations, and impugning of motives will be used as catalysts to trigger a wrong response. (Numbers 20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.”)

Numbers 20:3 And the people chode with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! 4 And why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And wherefore have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

Numbers 20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

Final Movements Will Be Rapid Ones. Part [10] 04/04/2025 Evening thought)

Numbers 12:3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

This leads us to our case study of the man, Moses, who for years had endured the winds of strife which were coming from a multitude of insubordinate folk. They wore him down over the years with complaints and murmuring, and on several occasions, they had almost stoned him. The journey to Canaan would have taken but a few days, but because of the attitude of the multitude, it was now going to take forty years.

Thus, Moses was in no mood to take further insults and threats to his person when they clamored for water. Thus, satan, ever on the lookout for opportunities to trip us up, observed that change in mood that came over Moses. He studied his countenance carefully, and he correctly determined that Moses could be a prime target for temptation if the right circumstance could be brought about.

Therefore, he pulls the files he has on Moses, and to his delight, he discovers that there is one point on which he has been successful with Moses in times past. He runs the tape on Moses, in different cases when his temper tantrums surfaced. Exodus 2: 11 “And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.”

Exodus 2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!