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WEEK 4
CLASS: SS2
TOPIC: MOSES AS LEADER
CONTENT:
- The early life and call of Moses
- God equips and sends Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt
- Moses led his people out of Egypt
Sub-Topic: 1. THE EARLY LIFE AND CALL OF MOSES: EXODUS CHAPTERS 1-3.
A new Pharaoh came to power in Egypt after the death of Joseph who decided not to acknowledge the good works of Joseph about four hundred years from the date Jacob came to Egypt. He was exceedingly afraid of the increase in the population of the Israelites in the land and so became hostile to the Israelites, whom he saw as a threat to the political, economic and military interest of Egypt.
He made the Israelites to serve with rigor and bitterness as they serve under taskmasters, forcing them to build store-cities called Pithom and Raamses by self-making of morters and bricks.
He went ahead to order the midwives –Shiphrah and Puah to murder Israelite’s baby boys at birth, but because the mid-wives feared God, they did not carry out his order but gave excuse that the Hebrew women delivered their babies before calling them.
It was during this critical period, Moses was born. The mother – Jochebed (wife of Amram) kept him for three months but when he could no longer be kept; his mother made a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen pitch before placing him among the reeds on a river bank.
Pharaoh’s daughter saved the child and named him Moses meaning “drawn out of water”. Moses’ sister Miriam came to her aid proffering to get a mid-wife to help look after the baby.
At age forty, Moses decided to associate with his people’s suffering, killed an Egyptian mal-treating an Israelite and buried him in the sand. The next day
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