Divine Deliverance

Moses’ Rehabilitation

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exodus:2.16-25

Moses did not marry a slaved Hebrew woman, neither an ungodly Egyptian woman. He married a Midianite woman while in exile. Her father, a Midianite priest, gave Moses his choice from among seven well-cared-for, helpful daughters. With Zipporah he learned positive husbandship and fatherhood, gentleman roles little practiced in Egypt. Patient shepherding, husbanding, and fathering was of greater benefit to Moses in later delivering the Jews from wicked Pharaoh than time spent in Pharaoh’s dysfunctional household. God’s perfect man is a gentle shepherd of His meek and mild children, not given to “hardness of heart” from growing up in the Pharaoh’s House. Perhaps God became more sensitive to the cries of His languishing people in Egypt when Moses had finally matured into His type of gentle savior and compassionate priest, a logos of God.

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