JUMPING THE GUN
Tuesday – May 22, 2018, Sivan 8, 5778
I don’t suppose anyone following this Bible Study has ever jumped the gun with a poor or disastrous result. We are to do everything with due patience and excellence.
Hebrews 11:23-27 (KJV)
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
As you will recall from yesterday, Moses was becoming increasingly aware that he was called of God to deliver Israel from the bondage of Egypt. However, he did not let that call settle and become aware of God’s perfect plan. He jumped the gun becoming a murderer. God has and continues to use people with terrible histories in great ways for His purposes. Moses is one of those people, others included King David and the Apostle Paul. Let’s take a moment and look at a few salient points in the Exodus text from yesterday.
Exodus 2:12 (KJV)
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Notice how he looked this way and that. He knew this was not right and that he was doing wrong but he did it anyway short-circuiting the plan of God. Then we find Moses entering into fear.
Exodus 2:14 (KJV)
14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Remember, fear opens the door to the enemy and closes the door to God and His abundance, protection, and so on. As a result, Moses flees from the face of Pharaoh.
Exodus 2:15 (KJV)
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
The face of Pharaoh or anyone else is to be within their sphere of control or influence or not, in this case not. Pharaoh was intent on killing him which was a law of God for murder as well. As you study further in Exodus you will find that Moses marries and has a child and it is a full forty years (time of testing) before he and we arrive at the “burning bush”. Now, back to our text in Acts.
Acts 7:20-25 (KJV)
20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. (underline added)
It is commonly believed that we cannot thwart the plan of God or in anyway hinder His plan but that is 180 degrees away from the Truth. The Bible starts right off with Adam and Eve, if there was ever something that upset the apple cart it was this couple. I for one do not believe that God made man to fail, but if he did fail, God had a wonderful plan of redemption. Due to God giving authority in the earth to mankind, every step of the redemptive process depended upon men (people). I am sure that God fully understands the concept of herding cats. Now, let’s recall what God had told Abraham about the redemption of His people from bondage and entry into the Promised Land.
Genesis 15:13-16 (KJV)
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
However, due to the disobedience of Moses this is what happened.
Exodus 12:40 (KJV)
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
As I close for today let me ask the following question, what was the perfect plan of God? Moses is forty when he gets ahead of his calling to deliver the people of God. It takes forty more years for God to get him into the right frame of mind, making Moses eighty (80) when the people of God are delivered out of bondage and across the Red Sea. God said He was to bring the people out of bondage in four-hundred years but it was four-hundred thirty years, a delay of thirty years. God’s perfect will was for Moses to be His instrument to redeem the people when he was age fifty and not forty and not eighty. God works with what we allow. Moses would have been fifty in the perfect will of God. Fifty is a number of the Holy Spirit and the number of Jubile.
Zechariah 4:6 (KJV)
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Leviticus 25:10 (KJV)
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Until our next publication, I speak this Scriptural prayer for your life right now, receive it in the name of Jesus, confess it, and walk it out with thanksgiving.
2 Peter 1:2-4 (KJV)
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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