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Explore the family dynamics, challenges faced by Moses, the role of Miriam as a prophetess, and the significance of dreams and visions in the Bible. Discover insights into humble leadership and the mystery of encountering God.
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How long of a journey? “It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea” Deuteronomy 1:2.
Family Feud • The Challenge to Moses: • The Intervention of God: • The Punishment of Miriam: • The Intercession of Moses:
“Moses was eighty years old and Aaron • eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh” • Exodus 7:7.
Miriam the Prophetess • Elder sister of Moses by 7 years and Aaron by 4 years, and the only daughter of Amram and Jochebed. • The wife of Hur (Josephus, Antiquities; Exodus 17:12). • Died @ the age of 126 (Numbers 20:1-2).
“Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth”Numbers 12:3. • Moses wrote it. • A scribe wrote it. • There is a similar word: ענו עני “humble” πραύς “oppressed” πραύς
Family Feud • The Challenge to Moses: • The Intervention of God: • The Punishment of Miriam: • The Intercession of Moses:
Dreams & Visions . . . “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son” Hebrews 1:1-2.
No one has seen God . . . • “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him” John 1:18. • “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form” John 5:37. • “He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen” 1 Timothy 6:15-16.
Isaiah saw Christ . . . • “In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple” Isaiah 6:1. • “These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him” John 12:41. -------------- • “And whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded, • the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him” Exodus 34:34-35.