Exodus 4:18-26 is a passage that deals with a transitional point for Moses and his family as they return to Egypt, after God tells Moses it is safe to return. Before giving in depth explanation of this passage let’s focus in on the importance of circumcision in relation to God and Israel and this passage as Moses transition point into a spiritual maturity by defining both focal points. Circumcision is the covenant to Abraham and his descendants; a promise of numerous and eminent descendants. A transition point is a separation from his or her former life-often conceived in terms of death-and incorporation into a new phase of life-often representation in terms of birth or rebirth.
Explaining the passage
Moses goes to Jethro, his father in law …show more content…
Joseph brought his father and brothers to Egypt to protect them from what he consider as their demise since he was in a better position then them and while in Egypt they multiplied like God told Abraham they would do. Now the deliver Moses is feeling the call to reverse the thing that was originally done is good will but has not become what seems like a curse.
Moses goes to Jethro to get his blessing to depart with his family because it time to move; he has heard the voice of the Lord giving him instructions to depart. It was also tradition and the right thing to do after all Jethro had taken this foreigner in and given him a skill, and a wife. The relationship between Moses and Jethro is a great testament of how God strategically places people in the path of a journey of maturity that have skills and substances that contributed to the delivers purpose.
In verse 22 there is repetition and emphasis put on words like son and first born. The first born son and the youngest son both hold deep emotional values to a parent. In verse 22 God tells Moses to tell Pharaoh that he is in trouble because “Israel is my son, even like a first born …show more content…
The decision to please one another verses pleasing God is obviously a matter of sin. When the spousal partnership is not in agreement the vision becomes blurred and is no longer on the focus of God’s will. One has to wonder if Zipporah and Moses discussed the circumcision of their youngest son previously and the impact that circumcision held to Israel and God. It also becomes a question if Moses finally knew at the moment of his near death experience that God wasn’t going to allow the lack of circumcision by Moses to detour the plan.
“Through Yahweh’s threat of death, Moses dies to his old self- to his confused identity, his ambivalent feelings about this vocation, his conflicted self between family and people, and his past statuses as the adopted son of and Egyptian Princess and outsider among the Israelites, a criminal and a refugee, the son-in-law of a Midianite Priest and the husband of a Midianite wife, an immigrant embraced by his adopted place of residence, and a shepherd of a flock which belonged to somebody else.
Explaining the passage
Moses goes to Jethro, his father in law …show more content…
Joseph brought his father and brothers to Egypt to protect them from what he consider as their demise since he was in a better position then them and while in Egypt they multiplied like God told Abraham they would do. Now the deliver Moses is feeling the call to reverse the thing that was originally done is good will but has not become what seems like a curse.
Moses goes to Jethro to get his blessing to depart with his family because it time to move; he has heard the voice of the Lord giving him instructions to depart. It was also tradition and the right thing to do after all Jethro had taken this foreigner in and given him a skill, and a wife. The relationship between Moses and Jethro is a great testament of how God strategically places people in the path of a journey of maturity that have skills and substances that contributed to the delivers purpose.
In verse 22 there is repetition and emphasis put on words like son and first born. The first born son and the youngest son both hold deep emotional values to a parent. In verse 22 God tells Moses to tell Pharaoh that he is in trouble because “Israel is my son, even like a first born …show more content…
The decision to please one another verses pleasing God is obviously a matter of sin. When the spousal partnership is not in agreement the vision becomes blurred and is no longer on the focus of God’s will. One has to wonder if Zipporah and Moses discussed the circumcision of their youngest son previously and the impact that circumcision held to Israel and God. It also becomes a question if Moses finally knew at the moment of his near death experience that God wasn’t going to allow the lack of circumcision by Moses to detour the plan.
“Through Yahweh’s threat of death, Moses dies to his old self- to his confused identity, his ambivalent feelings about this vocation, his conflicted self between family and people, and his past statuses as the adopted son of and Egyptian Princess and outsider among the Israelites, a criminal and a refugee, the son-in-law of a Midianite Priest and the husband of a Midianite wife, an immigrant embraced by his adopted place of residence, and a shepherd of a flock which belonged to somebody else.