Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures - Kenneth B. Alexander

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to look at God. The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. “So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite”.

      The Canaanite tribes listed above are all listed in Genesis 10:15-18 except the Perizzites, who along with several other peoples descended from Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah. God said to Moses: “Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them” “Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt” (Ex 3:1-10). This later became a common theme in Israel and Judah. Trouble would arise and God would send a deliverer. Jesus Christ was the ultimate deliverer.

      Hereafter Moses begins his excuses as to why he could not go. But God confirmed he would be with him and sent an unusual sign as conformation. “But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” The Lord answered: “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain [Horeb, Sinai].” The unusual sign was that after Moses had delivered the Israelites his sign would be that they would worship at the very mountain upon which he was standing. The sign is unusual in that Moses was concerned whether he could even deliver the Israelites at all but God ignored that and placed a sign that would occur after the Israelites were delivered

      Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; [the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be] and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM [YHWH] has sent me to you.’ ” God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. “Go and  gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. “So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex 3:11-21).

      YHWH was the most important name for God in the OT, which occurs about 6,800 times, usually pronounced Yahweh. The Hebrews had no vowels in their alphabet so the modern translation used is ‘Yahweh,’ though the known pronunciation was lost in the postexilic period. Due to the increasing sanctity attached to the name and the consequential desire to avoid misuse by the Jews YHWH, the pronunciation, was prohibited in Jewish culture. The title Adonai (Heb., ‘My Great Lord’) was pronounced in place of the tetragrammaton YHWH to avoid use of the true Most Holy name. God’s name YHWH (I AM that I AM ) was the true Hebrew name of God. In written texts the vowels of Adonai were combined with the consonants YHWH to remind readers to pronounce Adonai instead of Yahweh. The incorrect hybrid, ‘Jehovah,’ arose from Christian misunderstanding in the late Middle Ages. The respect for the sanctity of the personal name of God is reflected in modern Judaism. If God has a true name it is this one. It indicates that God is a God of today, right now and is always ready to move to accomplish His will; THE RIGHT NOW GOD.

      Moses’ excuses continued. He asked God Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you“ what if they don’t believe me?“.’ The Lord sent him three signs to perform so that the Israelites wuld believe. The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.” Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand——“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. “If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign. “But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.” “that they may believe that  the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you” (Ex 4:1-9).

      Moses’ third excuse: “Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, [in speech] neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”… Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently…. “You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do. “Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you and you will be as God to him (Ex 4:10-17).

      There is a bit of irony in all of this. God the Father sent the burning bush to Moses but it was Christ [called the angel of the Lord] who did all of the speaking to Moses. Remember Christ is the logos the Word of God. Now we find Moses was unable to speak correctly so God sends his brother-in-law Aaron to do the speaking for Moses. God through Moses was going to do all the miracles but Aaron was to do the speaking. Here we have a physical manifestation of Christ, centuries before He appeared in human form, but was Christ nevertheless. Now Christ, the Word, was going to speak through Aaron while the Father did His works through Moses. There was never any doubt that Moses was the one who carried the authority but he would speak through an intermediary Aaron.

      Aaron said goodbye to Jethro in Midian and the Lord spoke to him: “Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand. (4:19-22).

      So Moses and Aaron confronted the Pharaoh for the first time. “And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”… Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labors!” Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them

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