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The Life of Moses: Biblical Character

What comes to your mind when you think of Moses? – Ten Commandments, the Law, Red Sea… This bible study gives overview of life of Moses. This is the part of the series ‘The View from the Top’. ‘The View from the Top’ is a series of overview of biblical characters, events or book.

What comes to your mind when you think of Story of Moses? – Ten Commandments, the Law, Red Sea… This bible study gives overview of life story of Moses.

Life of Moses: His Life Span

  • Moses – meaning ‘I drew him out of the water’. (Exodus 2:10)
  • After Joseph, there was no communication from God for 400 years and then came Moses. (Joseph in the Bible– Character study)
  • Similarly, After Malachi, there was 400 years silence. Then Jesus came.
  • Moses was type of Christ. He delivered Israel from the slavery of Egypt, Christ delivered Mankind from slavery of Sin.
  • Moses was the first to DO miracles.
  • He was the first mediator between God and men and in that sense, he was Prophet.
  • In his childhood, he got teaching about his Israelite roots and his people from her mother. (Ex 2:7-10, Ex 2:11, Acts 7:23, Hebrew 11:24)
  • He has got the best training in Egypt’s palace. He has a mastery of all.
  • There after, he spent 40 years in wilderness! (Ex 2:15) (check out, Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness)
  • God had prepared him both for dealing with Pharaoh in palace and with Israelites in wilderness.
  • Moses represent the Law. He made one mistake and that cost him not to enter promise land. (Numbers 20:9-12) In essence, it reminds us, that by Law, we cannot make it to the Promise Land!
  • He led 2 million people in wilderness, who often grumble against him and God. If you would like to understand, how Jesus intercede for us to God in spite of our iniquities, we should understand how Moses interceded for the Israel. (Ex 32:31-32, Ex 33:12-16)
  • On the mountain of Transformation, Jesus was with Elijah and Moses. Moses presents law, and Elijah represents the prophets, so Jesus was in perfect harmony with law and prophets. (Matthew 17:3-5, Luke 9:29)

Moses as Unique, Chosen Person:

  • His Time was Unique.
  • His Teaching was Unique.
  • His Tests were Unique.
  • His Treasures were Unique.

Moses as Type of Christ:

  • Divinely chosen
  • Rejected by his people (Ex 2:13-14)
  • Turned to Gentiles (Ex 2:15)
  • Married to gentile bride (Ex 2:21)
  • Returned to his people and accepted
  • Delivered his people from the slavery of Egypt
  • Led his people to the Promise land
  • (Check out, Joseph, as Type of Christ)

God’s testimony for Moses: (Deut 34:10-12)

  • No prophet like him in Israel
  • He knew the Lord face to face! (Ex 33:11)
  • Life of Faith (Hebrew 11:24-28)

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By Amit Christian

Founder and Author of BibleSEO (Bible Study Exposition Online), Bible study topics website, which offers free small group bible studies on various topics. His passion is to train, equip and inspire individual and small groups for life-changing bible study experience.
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43 replies on “The Life of Moses: Biblical Character”

june 21 2009 happy father day praise god for the understanding search please if you can send me some of your helps t will thank and appreciated.

The search of truth ends in knowing this kind of mystery…
ur soul refreshes
u feel knowledgible
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all christians should come to this knowledge
Amen

very blessed after reading and studying ,god bless your ministry and beyond…..we need more of these please

Thank you for sharing this study with us. It is good to know background for Moses who one of my Bible hero. Keep up the good work.

Raja.

Really blest by this word. And since I will be called upon to share on sunday, imagine how many more souls shall be inspired…..
I pray that God will continue touching lives through your ministry.

Thanks for the study into a great man’s life!! What a blessing to know him. Until I meet him!!

PRAISE THE LORD.

These lessons are helping me a lot. i prey for your team that god may use you abundently.

Hallow brethren. Thanks alot for this insight of the life of this great man of God. Indeed much thanks too for the page entirely. Am blessed with your work and may god continue using you.

I find the information very useful as i prepare my Sunday school lesson on the life of Moses. Very good stuff and may God continue to bless the authors

Thank you for your great teaching. It’s insightful. I am learning a lot.

Peace, Uganda

I am too great to have this website because it is a great news that i have heard about the great man of GOD moses.
Please keep up this good work

I thank God for His grace over your life to expose people to deep knowledge of God’s word. I’ve found a lot to learn about the life of Moses. May God continue to use the more. Thanks a lot.

Great job. . . Only mistake I’ve noticed is Moses being the first prophet. . . As it is written in New Testament that,

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, – Jude 1:14

So Enoch prophesied before Moses.

I admit the bible study is great and meets to save lost souls..it goes so deep that it meets me here in kenya.

Hi,

I am new to this site and am really blessed coz this Bibile study has helped me connect the old and new testament together. How awesome! God bless.

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