The forty years Moses spent on the back side of the desert had not been wasted years. Invaluable lessons had been learned. Moses needed the weary discipline of those quiet years before he could obey the high vocation and ministry to which God was now calling him.
Among all the major biblical personalities only of two can it be said there is no recorded failure in their lives. For instance, Abraham had lapses of faith; Moses disobeyed; David indulged; Peter denied; Paul persecuted.
If I had been called upon to write the epitaph of Moses, I probably would have written, “Moses, God’s lawgiver is dead, or Moses, God’s statesman is dead,” or “Moses, God’s miracle worker is dead.”
The Bible is direct — It gets right to the point. In its use of language, it uses great restraint. In one brief, almost fleeting, sentence it records the…
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Syria and Egypt are allies now – but such was not always the case. In 168 B.C., the infamous Antiochus Epiphanes, Ruler of Syria, came down…