Analysis Of Moses And Moses

Moses is set off on a journey with many trials and tribulations. He returns to Egypt with his brother, Aaron to organize the Israelites and face the Pharaoh to request their freedom. Upon the Pharaoh’s rejection Moses performs a miracle of God by turning his staff into a snake. Rather than release the Israelites, Pharaoh drives the enslaved Israelite workforce harder. God reacts by increasing the suffering of his people in a series of ten plagues brought upon the Egyptians (Exodus 7:14-11:10). Finally, Moses threatened the Pharaoh with the death of all first-born sons of Egypt. Lamb’s blood was painted on the doors of the Hebrew homes and God spread death over the land, passing over Hebrew houses with blood-painted doors. This is known as Passover. The Pharaoh was so terrified that, only after the death of the Egyptian’s first-born does he release the Israelites, ordering the Hebrews to get out of Egypt. Once released, the Pharaoh changes his mind and orders his army to capture and execute The Israelites. Moses, at God’s request, parts the Red Sea and leads the Israelites across as the Egyptian army tries to pursue them on the path of the opened waters. Once the Israelites are safely on the other side,

Moses goes back to Egypt, terrified, because God tells him it will be okay and He will guide him. Jesus knows that He will be crucified for spreading the word of God, but continues to do so because it is what God wants. Jesus says, “You say that I am” when asked if He is God’s son when He could have easily denied this fact. Although Jesus knows that by saying this He will be killed on a cross, He says so anyway because He would rather suffer and die for mankind’s sins than deny his own Father and live, for this would cause suffering for the whole human race. Both Moses and Jesus put their trust in God on their journeys to becoming religious