Moses 1
This year, we are going to learn Old Testament in Sunday School. Old Testament has the most complicated and resourceful material, comparing with the other Standard Works. We, as well as all other Christians, always pay little attention on this collection because of the complication and difficulty to understand. After the first lesson, I learned so much from the Sunday School teacher last Sunday.
Moses wrote down his experience when seeing and talking to Jehovah, our Creator. This record was probably written before he took the Israelites and separated the Red Sea. During the passage, God had shown Himself unto Moses and taught him many things. The first thing when Jehovah saw Moses was confirmed his royal identity. In Chapter One, God said, ".....thou art my son....."; "....and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten; and mine Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior...."; "....this one thing I show unto thee, Moses, my son......" After He has told Moses His identity, He confirmed that Moses was actually a noble man, who was from the lineage of God. From studying the youth development, some scholars hypothesised that we would doubt about our identity during the adolescent years. If we do not handle it well, we may have troubles after grown up. This is called "Identity Crisis". If we all know and understand that we are actually from the lineage of God, will we still have that kind of crisis? God was strengthening Moses by baring a testimony of his Identity, so that Moses would have faith and courages to do whatever he was told by God. We all know that the task of bringing Israelites out of Egypt was not an easy and comfortable one. That was why Moses needed to be pumped up before he did it.
Moses saw many great things, including the worlds' creation and all the people that were ever created. It is certainly an eye-opened experience. If I were him, my jaw would be fallen and I could not pick it back up.
