Moses---Guilty or not Guilty?
How do you view Moses' act of killing an Egyptian?Did Moses kill an innocent man? What did the
Church in Egypt think? What does the Church
think now?
Do you see Moses as a murderer or as a deliverer?
How did Moses see himself? how did God see Moses?
And how did the early Church see Moses?
What does the word of God say?
The account of the killing is found in the book of
Exodus in the Holy Bible. See KJV chapter 2, verses
11 to 15.
In verse eleven Moses saw the burdens of his
brothers. He also saw the oppressor (an Egyptian)
beating an Hebrew.
Moses took a stand for the defence of his Hebrew
flesh and killed the Egyptian. He buried the dead
man with sand to hide him.
When Moses went out the next day he saw two
Hebrews fighting. Moses questioned the man that
was wrong. The man did not like Moses' stand as
a judge. The man questioned Moses whether Moses
would kill him as he killed the Egyptian. Later,
Pharaoh judged Moses as guilty and sought to kill
him. Moses became fearful and so he fled to
Midian.
Here we have a view of someone in the Church
(wrong doing Hebrew) seeing Moses as guilty
of murder. There were probably others in the
Church with the same view.
We find that Pharaoh would not have given
Moses a trial. The world (Pharaoh) saw Moses
as guilty. Someone might say, " Pharaoh was not
wrong because Moses didn't give the Egyptian
a chance or trial. He judged him and killed him
right away." Well, I don't think that Moses was
unfair to the Egyptian. The Egyptians were
guilty of perpetrating murders against Israel.
Remember how Moses himself had to be
hidden from the sword when he was a baby?
The Egyptians in those days were guilty of
much innocent blood.
Another person may say, " why didn't Moses do
the right thing like we are doing today? Why
didn't he resort to the courts in Egypt for
justice?"
Are you kidding me? What justice? The Hebrews
had no justice for them in the Egyptian courts.
It was high time that someone see the heart
of God and seek for immediate justice for the
crushed and oppressed. Moses saw God's heart.
You will not see God's heart unless you follow
the examples of men like Moses. You will be
stuck with the bad Pharaohs of the world. Now
don't get me wrong. I am not advocating killing
when there are courts and justice is available.
There are those in the Church today who view
Moses as a murderer. Many of them were taught
this view by the Church. Is the Church right or
is it taking a stand with the world?
If you look at Acts chapter seven, from verse
twenty-two to verse twenty-nine you will see
God's account as the Holy Spirit spoke through
Stephen. This should be seen as the view of the
early Church. It should be the view of the Church
now.
In verse twenty-four Moses is shown as a
defender and not as a murderer. He was also
executing vengeance. It was eye for an eye.
Remember that Moses knew the laws of the
Egyptians. He was not without understanding
about justice, and vengeance as part of justice.
In verse twenty-five we get a look at how Moses
saw himself. He saw himself as the chosen
deliverer of the children of Israel. Some in
the Church did not understand that, so Moses
got a bad rap. He was acting as God's
deliverer even then, but he could not make
them see that. So it was then. So it still is now
when Moses is shown by the Church that he
was a murderer.
Wake up Church. Know your enemies. Know
your friends.
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Article by A. Nizamuddin.
posted by Abdool N @ 2:28 p.m.
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