God’s Signs To Confirm Moses’ Words. Moses Given Powerful Signs Exo 4:1-9
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
2. The Deliverer Raised up and Called, Exodus 2:1-4:31
7. With what three signs did God meet Moses’ first hesitation?
MOSES GIVEN POWERFUL SIGNS
Then Moses answered [the LORD] and said, “What if they will not believe me or take seriously what I say? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.'”
And the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.”
Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a [living] serpent [like the royal symbol on the crown of Pharaoh]; and Moses ran from it.
But the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and grasp it by the tail.” So he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand–
[“You shall do this,” said the LORD,] “so that the elders may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has [most certainly] appeared to you.”
The LORD also said to him, “Put your hand into your robe [where it covers your chest].” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
Then God said, “Put your hand into your robe again.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he took it out, it was restored [and was] like the rest of his body.
“If they will not believe you or pay attention to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.
But if they will not believe these two signs or pay attention to what you say, you are to take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take out of the river will turn into blood on the dry ground.”
GOD’S SIGNS TO CONFIRM MOSES’ WORDS
This wonderful chapter tells us how Moses’ three misgivings were tenderly and sufficiently dealt with by his heavenly Friend. To his first misgiving God made answer by giving him three signs. Here first we meet with that rod which was so often stretched out, over the land of Egypt, over the sea, and during the sojourn in the Wilderness. Moses was but a rod, but what cannot a rod do, if handled by an Almighty hand!
Leprosy was the type of sin, and the cleansed hand suggests God’s marvelous power in cleansing, and so qualifying for service, all who yield themselves to Him. The third sign of the water turned to blood was not less significant, revealing the divine power operating through this feeble human instrument to produce wonderful effects in the world of nature. We must not live on signs, but on the Holy Spirit, though the outward sign reassures and strengthens us.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 4:1-9
III. THE CALL OF MOSES (Chaps. 3, 4)
B. The Reluctance of Moses (4:1-17)
4:1-9 Moses continued to doubt that the people would accept him as a spokesman of God. Maybe the disillusionment of Exo_2:11-15 had eaten deep into his soul. Therefore God gave him three signs, or miracles, to confirm his divine commission. (1) His rod, thrown on the ground, became a serpent. Taken by the tail, the serpent became a rod again. (2) His hand, placed in his bosom, became leprous. The same hand, placed in his bosom again, became free of leprosy. (3) Water of the Nile, poured out on the land, became blood.
These signs were designed to convince the people of Israel that Moses was sent by God. They spoke of God’s power over Satan (i.e., the serpent), and sin (pictured by the leprosy) and of the fact that Israel would be redeemed from both of these through blood.
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