TYPES AND SHADOWS HIDDEN IN THE
EARLY CHILDHOOD OF MOSES
09-01-19
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(Exo
1:22)
And Pharaoh charged [Heb:
commanded] all his people, saying, Every
son [of the Israelites] that is born ye shall cast into the
river [the Nile river], and every daughter ye shall save alive.
(Exo
2:1-3)
And there went a man of the house of Levi
[Heb: attached], and took to wife
a
daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son [the as yet unnamed Moses, a type and
shadow of Jesus Christ and a type and shadow of us]: and when she saw him that he was
a goodly child
[1],
she hid him three months. And when she could not
longer hide him,
she took for him an ark
[Heb:
box] [associations: Noah’s ark, ark of the covenant (which we are
within) – all
held/holds people, in safety] of
bulrushes [Heb: the
papyrus] [was
crushed and made into writing paper, symbolic of the Bible], and daubed [Heb: smeared]
it with slime [Dict:
thin mud] and with pitch
[Heb: asphalt] [Dict: a brown or
black
tarlike substance], and
put the
child therein [into the
ark]; and she laid it
in the flags [Heb:
the reeds; especially the papyrus] by
the river's brink [Heb:
the lip;
by implication language: speech, talk, words] [symbolic of the Holy
Spirit].
1.
goodly = Heb:
beautiful, best, better, bountiful,
cheerful, (be in) favour, graciously, joyful, fine, glad, kindly,
loving,
merry, pleasant, pleasure, precious, prosperity, sweet, wealth, (be)
well
(favoured).
(Exo 2:4-10) And his [the as yet unnamed Moses’] sister
stood afar off, to wit [learn] what would be done to him. And
the
daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself
at the river; and her maidens walked [with her] along
by the river's side; and when she [Pharaoh’s daughter]
saw the ark
among the flags [Heb: reeds, especially the papyrus], she sent her maid to fetch it. And when
she [Pharaoh’s daughter] had opened it [opened
the Bible, symbolically], she saw the child [in a sense, we are seeing Jesus (John
1:14) in the Bible]: and, behold, the
babe wept [“Jesus wept.”
(John
11:35)]. And she had compassion
on him
[i.e., she responded
positively to Him],
and said, This is one of the
Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to
Pharaoh's daughter, Shall
I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that
she may nurse [Heb: to
suck; to give milk] the
child for thee? And Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child's
mother. And Pharaoh's daughter [(unknowingly)] said unto her [the
real mother], Take
this child away [to your
home], and nurse it for me [(a miracle)], and
I will give thee
thy wages [(a miracle
“plus”)]. And the woman
[the mother of Moses] took the child, and nursed it.
And the
child grew [“And the child grew and
waxed strong
in spirit” (Luke 1:80)], and she
brought him [the weaned
child,
after perhaps two or three years of being exposed to and learning the
basic
Hebrew culture at home] unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son [i.e., academically educated, militarily trained,
and in line for the
throne of Pharaoh] [1]. And she [Pharaoh’s daughter, a heathen, unbeliever] called his name [named
him] Moses [Heb: drawing out (of the water), rescued]
[2]: and she said, Because
[(she said unknowingly)] I drew him out of the water [(of the Holy Spirit’s doing)].
1.
(Heb 11:24-27)
By faith Moses,
when he was come to years [matured], refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a
season [Gk: temporary]; Esteeming the reproach of Christ [“he considered the contempt and abuse and
shame (borne for) the Christ, the Messiah (who was to come) to be”
Amplif.
Bible] greater riches
than
the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence [restitution] of
the reward [i.e., Heaven]. By faith he forsook Egypt,
not
fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured [Gk: (was) patient],
as
seeing him who is invisible [“the
invisible God” (Col 1:15)].
2.
(Rev 2:17)
He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To
him that overcometh [conquers
his own natural man] will I give to
eat of the hidden [Gk:
concealed (by covering): kept secret]
manna [the Word
of God],
and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name
written,
which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
[ref. Rev 3:12].
a.
(Psa 78:22-25)
Because
they believed not in God, and trusted not
in his salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and
opened the doors of heaven, And had rained down manna
[the Word of God] upon them to eat,
and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food:
he sent
them meat [Heb: provision] to the full [Heb: satisfaction]
[because men are fallen
angels and therefore have the ability to eat “angels’ food.” The Word
of God
(manna) is man’s true food
from which our eternal spirit is nurtured and grows].
Amen