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businessman. His desire was to put Egypt on the map by making it the greatest dynasty on the earth. Like a venomous snake, he had turned against the Hebrew people and had made them slaves. He reeked of the same foul odour that had absorbed Lucifer after his disgraceful fall from heaven. He set harsh taskmasters over the Hebrews, causing them to make bricks and blocks. He also set vigorous tasks for them in the fields making their lives bitter with unreasonable demands. They also built for Pharaoh huge Treasure cities. But the more they were afflicted the more they multiplied and grew. Pharaoh had become fearful of the children of Israel as they had become fruitful and increased abundantly in numbers and began to replenish the land of Egypt more than the Egyptians. The Hebrew people became more in number and mightier in strength than the Egyptians. Pharaoh became fearful that if war broke out the Israelites would join forces with Egypt’s enemies and conquer his mighty dynasty.
What was even more terrifying about Pharaoh was his disrespect and lack of value for a single human life. Michael and I became violently outraged and bitterly angry when Pharaoh ordered all newborn male babies to be killed. Pharaoh said to the midwives, “When you go to do the duties of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” But the midwives feared God Almighty with a holy reverence, and did not do as the King of Egypt had commanded them to do, instead they saved every man-child.
The King of Egypt then called for the midwives, and said unto them, “Why have you done these things and have saved the male-children by keeping them alive.” The midwives replied unto Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are lively and vigorous, and they deliver there babies before we can arrive.” God dealt well with the midwives and gave them favour. Pharaoh then ordered that all the baby boys be thrown into the River Nile to be devoured by its beasts.
The River Nile became a feasting place for crocodiles and wild beasts alike. Unnatural helpless cries echoed from the rivers murderous banks. The first time I saw a helpless child hurled into the river I grieved all day and all night. My soft Godly heart was broken and troubled to the core. Michael tried to comfort me by embracing me with his soft golden wings, but his efforts were in vain. I refused to be comforted, I wanted justice. Michael on the other hand burned with holy anger and a fiery fury. He saw red and just wanted to kill the perpetrators.
Day after day as the newborn babies were abducted from their mothers and heartlessly tossed into the River Nile. Michael and I became angrier as no effort was made to save any of these babies. I grieved continually out of a heavy sick sorrow and hopelessness deep within my heart. These murderous Egyptians had the same spirit as that ancient dragon serpent, Satan and that evil King called Herod. He had heartlessly ordered his guards to thrust through many a newborn baby on a quest to kill the newborn Christ. Michael and I both watched in anguish as the very breath of God was snuffed out of each innocent child. We angels know that the God does not waste his breath. When he breaths his life into every newborn child he intends for that child to live a long life of worship and sacrifice before him. We angels have noticed that every time the Lord God has prepared a generation to bring salvation and deliverance in the earth a spirit of death has been released by Satan and his demons. Yet on both occasions God has delivered His redeemer out of the clutches of death.
When Moses’ mother saw that he was a goodly child ordained by the Lord God, she hid him away for three fearful months. When the time came when she could no longer hide him, she built a basket for him as an ark out of bulrushes. She coated it with slime and with pitch to make it waterproof. She gently placed the young innocent child therein and set off to the rivers edge. Then she unwillingly placed the basked into the deadly river and hoped for a miracle. His mothers broken heart was unable to watch so she placed her daughter Miriam on the bank of the river as a watchman to see the outcome of her actions.
It was at that same time that the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river being accompanied by her maidens. On that particular day they walked along the rivers edge, as their foot steps were directed by the Lord. Suddenly she saw the ark among the reeds and sent her handmaids into the river to retrieve it. As she opened it she saw the young child and immediately the baby began to cry. She instantly bonded with the baby and had motherly compassion on him even though she knew that he was one of the Hebrews' children. Young Miriam asked the Lord God for wisdom as she lacked wisdom and had no idea on what to do in her hopeless situation. Suddenly God Almighty breathed upon her with the breath of understanding and immediately she received insight and revelation on what to do.
She approached Pharaoh's daughter cautiously, her knees trembling and her tiny heart pounding out of control. Suddenly she spoke with an unnatural boldness as God gave her utterance, “Shall I go and get a Hebrew woman so that she may nurture the baby for you?” Pharaoh's daughter answered her and said to her, “Go and find me someone to nurse him.” So Miriam ran home as fast as her little bare feet could carry her. She burst through the front door at top speed almost ripping it off its hinges. She yelled at the top of her voice, “Mummy, mummy come quickly.” The excitement in her voice overshadowed the feeling of loss and sorrow that her mother was feeling. She continued to plead, “Come quickly mummy.” Her eyes were full of life as she gestured for her mother to accompany her.
“What is it my darling,” replied her mother. “Mummy, the God of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has done a great and marvellous thing. He has performed a mighty miracle.” Miriam grabbed her mothers hand tightly and pulled her out of the front door, down the lane and straight to the rivers edge, where Pharaoh’s daughter waited patiently for her return. Pharaoh’s daughter had no idea that Miriam had brought the baby’s mother to nurture the child. Nor did she know that Miriam was the baby’s sister.
Pharaoh's daughter then instructed Jochebed, the child’s mother to take the child and nurse him for her. She even gave her wages for her to take the child and nurse him on her behalf. So God brought salvation from death, at the place of death. Michael and I stood closely together side by side at the rivers edge. Once again we were astounded at the salvation of the Lord God. Not only did God Almighty save baby Moses form death but he saved his mothers heart from a life time of bitter anguish and pain. Moses’ mother took him from the king’s daughter and turned herself around to take him home. She held him tightly in her arms and close to her chest as tears began to run down her cheeks.
“Thank you God,” she prayed. Her heart was flooded with enormous gratitude towards the God of her salvation. Michael and I stood speechless in holy awe and wonder of God’s goodness and saving grace towards mankind. The arm of the Lord is not short that it cannot save. It was then that we both realized our mission in Egypt. God Almighty had used Joseph to preserve his chosen royal nation from certain death during the famine. Moses however was destined to deliver God’s holy nation, Israel from the bondage and slavery afflicted under Pharaohs heartless reign. Moses was a special child and Michael and I both knew it.
When the season of Moses’ weaning came to an end and the appointed time had arrived, his mother brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her adopted son. Pharaoh’s daughter gave him the name Moses, because she drew him out of the water. Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and cherished him as she would her own son. Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and he was mighty in understanding with words of wisdom and the works of his hands prospered. The powerful hand of the Lord God rested heavily upon him. When Moses was forty years of age, it entered into his heart by the Holy Spirit for him to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. Seeing one of his people suffering wrong at the hand of an Egyptian, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian and killing him. Moses thought that his people would understand that God was delivering them by his actions, but they didn’t understand him.
The next day he visited his pe
ople again. He saw two of them physically locked in battle to settle the dispute they were encountering with one another. Moses confronted them saying, “Sirs, you are brothers, why do you quarrel and do wrongful injustice towards one another?” But they rebuked him firmly, “Who made you the divine ruler and judge over us, are you wanting to kill us like you killed the Egyptian yesterday?” Moses then fled at hearing this saying for fear of losing his life and became a wondering sojourner in the land of Midian. There he married and had two children. When forty years had passed, I appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai where he was tending his father in laws sheep.
I stood in the midst of a bush and glowed in all of the Lord God’s glory. The bush appeared like the flames of a fire as the glory of the Lord always appears unto fire. When Moses saw it, he was amazed and wondered at the sight of its appearance. So out of curiosity he drew near to the burning bush. Then I, Gabriel uttered the word of the Lord to him, “I am the God