As
the writer of Hebrews continued to share concerning the “faith”
of Moses, he referred to how Moses “esteemed the reproach
of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt”,
and in chapter eleven and verse twenty-seven of Hebrews the
writer shared how Moses “by
faith” “forsook Egypt” where we read:
By faith
he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king:
for he
endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
The
verse begins, “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the
wrath of the king:”. The
writer began with the words, “By faith”
which means “the conviction of the truth of anything and belief
with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or
in Christ which springs from trust in the same” “he
forsook” or “Moses left
behind, departed from and abandoned” “Egypt”
which means “double straits” and was “a country occupying the
northeast angle of Africa”, “not fearing” or
“not being afraid of or struck with fear and seized with alarm”
“the wrath” which
refers to “the passion, heat and anger boiling up and soon
subsiding again” “of the king”
or “the leader of the people, commander and lord of the land”.
Moses “left behind” Egypt without “being afraid of the anger”
the king would display against him.
The
verse goes on to say, “for he endured, as seeing him who
is invisible.”. The writer
continued with the words, “for he endured” or
“even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore Moses
stayed strong and steadfast”, “as seeing”
which means “beholding, perceiving and heeding” “him
who is invisible” or “the
one who is unseen and can't be seen”. Moses “stayed strong and
steadfast” because he was able to keep the “invisible”
God within his mind.
When
we think through these words in Hebrews, we see how Moses “by
faith” was able to look beyond his present situation and look
toward the “invisible” God even though there was a strong
possibility that the Pharaoh would find and kill him. Moses left
Egypt because “by faith” he knew God had chosen him to be
the deliverer of Israel. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins
as a result of the “faith” of Moses because Israel
eventually was preserved by God through Moses, and Jesus descended
from the tribe of Judah within Israel. God desires for us to believe
that He, though “invisible”, has an “everlasting”
plan for our lives, and when we humble ourselves before His Son
Jesus, ask Him to forgive our sins and believe that He will do so, we
can “endure” like Moses because we have “seen him who
is invisible”.
Next
time the writer shares how Moses “through
faith” “kept the passover”,
so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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