The Nile's Gift: Moses' Journey from a Basket to the Palace

You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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Guys. There you go, and this can be incredible. It is an

amazing day. Plant. I hope you brought your a game today, Chris

Well, I did bring a game. Okay, there you go, horse

around? Yes, okay, well, hey, today we're going to just

jump in to it speak. Hey, there you go. Huh so good

transition. Desiree wrote down how well do you know them? We're talking about

the birth and rescue of Moses today. So for this segment of how well

do you know Them, Chris is going to ask Jeff three to four questions

about his childhood. We're going to see if Jeff knows them. What does

that have to do with Moses? I don't know. Maybe she loves your

beard, Moses child. How do you know Moses had a beard? I

don't know because I watched the show. That's true. Yeah, those those

Hebrew guys, they probably had beards. There you go, Okay, So

here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do true or false, and I'm I'm

just gonna get you to just guess true or false. It's not true or

false. It's not like tutors and lie. It's just simply true or false.

I'm gonna give you like radical things. Good, Okay, ready,

yep, because true or false, I don't have to think about it.

I can just randomly guess a thing and it doesn't matter. You didn't have

to you didn't have to care. Okay, I don't. Okay, here

we go. Points, Yes, this is going to be. Okay,

what we're just gonna go with five hundred points. There's four of them.

Okay, to the ability to make two thousand points Again, listeners, Chris

is being cheap with the points. But okay, here we go. I

should have said one, you should have a million. No, I should

have said three points. Okay, here we go. Ready, When I

was young, I was standing in ankle deep water next to my swimming pool

trying to plug in floodlights, and I electric you myself, and I held

on to it so long that my arm turned black, turned black, purple,

dark purple, and then there was a little bit of a black spark

on my finger. It's true. Actually, is it true? So my

arms no, listen, listen to me. My arm was purple. I

just described it purple, purple, and then the spark turned my fingers black.

Okay, all right, that's true. I got hung up on the

color of your arm. Okay, the rest of itself, well, I

mean it sounded legit, I corrected myself. Okay, here's the second one.

My brothers went around and uprooted and stole every stop sign in our entire

neighborhood. I'm going to say that's true. And then wait a minute,

I'm not done. I know, but your brothers and then pieced them together

and made one giant stop sign that was like probably one two, three,

four, five sixty seven eight high. And then the newspaper came out,

took a photograph, and it made the front page of the news. I

want to say, that's true, that is true. I didn't even need

to let me get to the best part of the story. My brother stole

something. That's true, all right, the ball boys were bad boys.

Well then, and then think about this one. This is sort of another

brother thing, but this is atlandish. In the wintertime, my brothers built

a snow wall about three feet thick, because you know, back then,

snow was pretty high right right across Kirk Road, which is a main road

right by our house, and they watered it down with water. So I

turned into ice so that people would have no choice but to drive down the

road see this wall that was higher than a car and have to turn around

and go the other way. Ice. They made ice out of it.

Ice wall and ice wall. It sounds like a zar ball boy thing.

I'm going to say, yes, it's true. Is it true? Three

true statements? Okay, okay, all right, and I have a thousand

points now out of fifteen possible. You can't add. I said five hundred

points each, I know. But the first one I got wrong. Oh

you did get wrong. I know. So I'm also honest. My bad.

There you go. Okay, a thousand points. Last one. Here

we go. My brother Donnie, by the time he turned twenty one on

his twenty first birthday, he had wrecked and totaled twenty one cars. I

know he's wrecked in total a bunch of cars. I'm going to say faults

on twenty one. It's twenty one. He wrecked in total, twenty one

cars on one cars by his twenty first birthday, because he was a mechanic

and he would buy cars for one hundred dollars and just junkers and then go

out and just like well he would he would do like what do you call

it, like a off roading, right, and he would do it on

purpose. But then he would just like you know, slide wreck, hit

a tree and be like whoa, I guess it's the end of that car,

and then go get another walking home. Let you buy another one for

one hundred dollars, okay, And then he wrecked in total. But it's

true. He wrecked in total twenty one cars by his twenty first birthday.

So I only got a thousand points out of two thousand possible. Yes,

that's true. Okay, Well I'm sure that we had some uh listeners,

is that it's a fifty? I know, I feel terrible. I'm slipping,

grace, Hey, listen. The only way to glipping. The only

way to get an a with four questions is to get all four of them

right. That's true. So I was slipping on that one. So so

I tricked you though four truths, I didn't have one. You didn't have

a single false thing which I'm not accustomed to. I'm not accustomed to you

talking about saying so false. So yeah, that was a low blow.

You're just trying to make yourself feel better at this point because you only got

fifty percent. Got fifty percent, I'm sorry. And these were about your

brothers, and I don't know your brothers as well as I know you,

So there's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, Well

apparently you know me well enough to say that you're not used to be telling

the true. Okay, that's so funny. Well, hey, as Chris's

incredible introduction to the podcast today said, we're kicking off the birth of Moses.

Yeah, if you were with us last week, the last day,

we talked about how Pharaoh was really skeptical and nervous about the people of Israel.

They were expanding so much, and so he determined that what they needed

to do was the midwives needed to kill all the baby boys, right and

yuh yeah, and these midwives were finding different ways to get around it.

So with that as the backdrop, the people of Israel now are slaves.

This very likely. Did you know there's two different dates for the exodus as

people try to figure out what time what dynasties are we talking about. So

some people would say Ramsey's the second would be his because he was particularly wicked

and evil, that would make a later date for the exodus. It's probably

unlikely that would have been. And the reason why everybody says Ramsey's, well,

there's a lot of reasons. But if you ever saw Charlton Heston's ten

Commandments, they chose Ramses as the guy, right, it's very unlikely.

It's probably topmost, the second and in that age, which is interesting because

as you read the story, his daughter is going to come into the story,

and she's a particularly famous person in Egypt. It's kind of okay,

So here we go Exodus chapter two, and we're gonna read one through ten,

and it says about are you saying, Hollywood get it wrong. It's

a shock to your system. It's a shock to your system. Hollywood screwed

up the Bible. Yeah, just a little, just a little possibly aheah,

Okay. About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of

Levi got married. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son,

and she saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three

months but when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made

of papyrus reads and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby

in the basket and laid it among the reads along the bank of the Nile

River. The baby's sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what

happened to him. Soon, Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe in the river,

and her attendants walked along the river bank. When the princess saw the

basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her.

When the princess opened it, she saw the baby and the little boy was

crying. She felt sorry for him. This must be one of the Hebrew

children, she said. Then the baby's sister approached the princess. Should I

go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?

She asked, Yes, do, the princess replied. So the girl went

and called the baby's mother, take this baby and nurse him for me.

The princess told the baby's mother, I will pay you for your help.

So the woman took her baby home and nursed him lady. Later, when

the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who

adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses, for she

explained, I lifted him out of the water. There you go. Was

it amazing? You know what's so interesting about this is that it it just

it throws this. What is it a coincidence? It's it's God's ordination,

you know, for them to say should I you know, the servant says,

shall I grab one of the Hebrew women? You know? And then

it just so happens that she grabs his mother. Yeah, yeah, so

so it was Miriam, it was it was Moses's sister, right, went

and got Moses's mom. Oh that's what That's what happened there, you're right,

right. So remember it says that the baby's sister stood at a distance

washing to see what it would happen. Yes, and then when the princess

finds the baby, she goes and says, hey, would you like me

to go find something? Oh? No, I missed that. I missed

that. Yeah, it says it right there first number seven, So we

know then the baby's sister approached the princess, right, so we know Miriam

is Moses's sister, and so she's like, hey, I know a lady

that could help, right, right, this newborn baby's mother. Yeah.

Yeah, you know what, It's so funny because I I glossed over that

and I just didn't comprehend that. But in the in the movie that I've

seen one hundred times on TV, that wasn't the case. It wasn't the

sister. Yeah, well no, no, it wasn't it just what was

the princess name, Nephtale neph Tully. Yeah, so yeah, the princess

probably wasn't. Okay, Well, the one in the movie was nepht Ley,

and she took the baby in and just literally just raised the baby.

So there was no grabbing a Hebrew mother. No, so literally the storyline

is that this baby's out there. The princess finds the baby, you know,

the baby's crying, which then breaks her heart. Oh poor baby.

Everybody wants to help a crying baby. So then Miriam steps out, Hey,

do you want me to find somebody to nurse the baby? Sure?

And then the Bible says, take this baby and nurse him for me,

and then I'll pay you to do it, right, so my baby lives.

I'm getting money. Yeah, and she took the baby home. It

says later when the boy was older, right, not when the baby was

older. When the boy was older, toddler, his mother brought him back

to pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. Yeah. Yeah,

he wasn't a baby anymore. Yeah, so that's pretty incredible. And

so what's so interesting is you said, you said Hollywood got it wrong maybe

in the dynasty. Not only did they get it wrong in the dynasty,

they got details, the details wrong. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So

what I was going to say, is it so there's the earlier exodus and

there's the later exodus. The later exodus has several problems historically as far as

timing. So if the earlier exodus is correct, then this would have been

Topmost, the Second's daughter. Topmost. The second wasn't known to be particularly

mean or horrible, but hey, it's he did have a lot of slaves

and things, so that's not a problem. But this would have made his

daughter be hat Sepsuit, and she was a female pharaoh eventually, so after

her father died, she becomes And so have you ever seen just outside of

the Valley of the Kings, there's that great, big, giant, wide

temple. It's got the stairs that go all the way up to it.

That's her funerary temple right there. So it's like one of the most famous,

well, I would say it's probably the most famous temple in southern Egypt

as far as when you get outside a Karnaker luxor. This is was her

funerary temple. I've been there. It's pretty great. But the thing about

it was she was an extremely successful pharaoh. It didn't last very long,

but during that time there was a lot of art, all these things,

and she kept depicting herself as a male pharaoh, so she had the fake

beard the whole nine yards, and it was because you know, women weren't

supposed to be pharaohs. So then her step son, most of the third

becomes a pharaoh and starts chipping her face off all of her statues. So

it's only because of her temple and a few other spots that we know that

it was actually a woman and not a man in her time. And so

the notes here in the Life Application Study Bible talk about it. It says

who was Pharaoh's daughter? Two popular explanations something that Hetchepsuit was a woman who

pulled Moses from the river. Her husband, oh it was a husband,

not father, was Pharaoh Topmost the second and this would match the earlier exod

estate. Apparently Headchepsuit could not have children, so Topmost had a son by

another woman, and this son became heir to the throne. Het Shepsuit would

have considered Moses a gift from the gods because now she had her own son

who would be the legal heir to the throne. Right then it goes on.

It says something that the princess who rescued Moses was the daughter Ramses a

second, but this would have made the later exit a state and it wouldn't

have really worked out. So if it was uh he Sepsuit, she wound

up being a particularly good pharaoh for a while. But then what happened was

her step son winds up becoming the heir to the throne. And he's the

one who chipped out her entire story and made himself replaced his face on all

of her statues. Wow, yeah, yeah, well that's interesting. Then

he was particularly cruel, so it makes sense he would be the pharaoh that

Moses squares off against at the end on the way out of out of Egypt.

Yeah, and and then and that would make them step brothers sort of.

So well yeah, yeah, so he was the son of Pharaoh through

another woman and and Moses was the adopted son right of the pharaoh's wife.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's pretty neat if you're into the

whole Egyptian thing. She's an incredible story if you if you ever look all

that up, and uh, really really neat. So it'd be cool.

And it's about the right time. That would be about the right time.

So yeah, anyways, that is interesting because the chronological you know that we

could we could really piece together where everything happens based on lifespans, right,

yeah, based on uh, you know, recorded history, things match up

and recorded history, and then the Bible actually gives you know, times,

and that says, oh, there's a there's four hundred years of silence between

Malachi and Matthew. Is that right, That's four hundred years of silence.

So you know, you could literally stack centuries upon each other and go backwards

and figure out the whole thing. So this is very likely somewhere around fifteen

hundred years before Christ is when all this is happening. So yeah, if

you're trying to place it, figure out where it is. There's maybe two

different pharaohs. They're not far apart, but a couple hundred years, but

it's I probably think it would be more towards this the Tutmoses and Het.

I can't ever say name hat hat shep suit is how it is? Hepshut

suit, hat shep suit. See it three times fast, can't I can't

hatshp suit, yeah, hetshet suit, hepshet suit, hat hepsht Shoot,

No, it's hat Okay whatever I thought I could do it. Yeah,

all of our listeners are like, okay, now they're all going hat,

chebsuit, hatch right, right, But look it up. In the Valley

of the Kings, or near the Valley of the Kings, not far from

where King Tut was found, is this magnificent funerary temple that is really,

really incredible. So what sermons are hidden in this thing here? I would

say one of them is, you know how about this? You know,

God calls us to obey our parents. God calls us to be obey the

laws of the land. But when the laws of the land or our parents,

you know, give us things that, you know, literally contradict God's

word. You know, it's okay to disobey because we obey God rather than

man. And so if my mom said you need to worship the devil,

which she would of course never do, I would say, I'm gonna have

to disobey you there, mom, right, because I'm not gonna I'm not

gonna go ahead, and you know, choose obeying my mom over God?

Right? Oh, I think I think you have that. Along those lines,

there's a note here in the life that case you say about says,

when faced with evil, look for ways to act against it, and then

trust God to use your effort, how small it, however small it seems

in his war against evil. Right, And that's what they did, is

they're like, hey, we're not going to kill this baby. We value

life so much that willing to risk our own, and we don't know how

to protect this baby. The only thing I think of is let's make this

little boat and see what God does. And so they decided not at my

hand. I'm not killing this baby at my hand. And then Miriam's out

there watching taking care of the baby. Don't know how long. But then

Miriam had the guts. Can you imagine the how difficult it would be for

a Judea approach a pharaoh's daughter be scary, but she took advantage of that

opportunity and said, Hey, I know a lady that could help, right,

And you know, I think a lot of times we miss great opportunities

because we because of fear. Yeah, and we're afraid what if she says

no? Yeah? But what if she says yes? Right? Right?

And God, so they valued life so much that they wouldn't execute this baby

or kill this baby at their own hand. But they had no other choice

but to just trust God that he'd solve it. Y that Miriam had the

guts to approach, Yeah, that'll preach. And then what about this one,

the fact that some people just have a calling on their lives. Yeah,

there are people who they just know for certain early on that God has

called them to a certain thing, and then you know, they try to

run from it or they try to avoid it. And there's no indication that

Moses tried to avoid you know, you know, his unbelievable upbringing, you

know, but he did flee and he went to Midian. We'll get to

that part. But he spent years and years, you know, as a

shepherd until God called him. But he did try to get out of it

though, didn't he He tried every excuse under the book. As God said,

I'm choosing you, He's say no, no, no, no,

no no, he say choose anybody else. We'll get to that in a

minute. But you know this right here is a pretty good indicator that God

has something special chosen for this baby boy who is somehow rescued amongst the multitudes.

Right, it's certainly incredible. One more note, I'm obsessed with the

notes here. It literally says Moses's mother was reunited with her baby. God

used her courageous act of saving and hiding her baby to begin his plan to

rescue his people from Egypt. God doesn't need much from us to accomplish his

plan for our lives, which is such a great phrase, right, but

he does need us to surrender. Right. Focusing on our human predicament may

paralyze us because the situation may appear humanly impossible, But concentrating on God and

his power will help us see the way out. So right now, you

might feel unable to see through your troubles, but focus instead on God and

trust him for the way out. That's all he needs to begin is working

you. That's great, isn't that great? Yeah, that's really good.

So those are all applications right here. And so we know that God has

great things for Moses. And I guess did we already say this that people

worship the now River? Yeah, right, And so they would have.

They would have even in some ways thought that maybe it was a gift from

the gods, right right, So even though that obviously she identified it as

a Hebrew child, she might have thought that, maybe, you know,

this is in the now River, it could have been something that was you

know, either ordained or you know, or supposed to happen or something like

that, right, because you know, everything revolved around the Nile. They

get everything from the Nile, you know, food and rich soil and all

these different things, and that would have been for her. Then this was

her answer to prayer, especially if this was the topmost story, because there

was a step son that was going to inherit the throne and she was grieving

and wanted a son, and then she would have felt like the God of

the Nile gave her a son. And it's pretty crazy. I think Moses

may have been the heir to the throne of Egypt, so it's pretty amazing.

Anyways, Hey, this story is going to get good. Yeah,

well, it's already good. Yeah. So hey, well, that's good

place to stop and hopefully we'll see you next time on the Bible guys,