It is clear that Moses’ parents were faithful believers of God’s promises and recognised that he was the one to deliver Israel, as Stephen declared: “Pharaoh evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair (“fair to God” in the original), and nourished up in his father’s house three months”. Acts 7:19-20Waiting for response for Acts 7:19-20 His mother saw that he was a “goodly child” and took steps to save his life.
He visited his own people who were slaves of the Egyptians and intervened to save one being severely beaten “for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not” Acts 7:25.Waiting for response for Acts 7:25 They rejected him saying: “Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?” resulting in Moses leaving the country for forty years before being sent back by God to deliver Israel. We see the parallel with Christ for the Jews also rejected him as their King and Saviour, and he also has left them for a long time while they have suffered at the hands of the Gentiles. Nevertheless, like Moses, he will return, for God will “remember his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob” and will send him to deliver his people.
God’s control of the nations is not noticed by most people, but those who read his word with understanding can observe his hand as work among the nations, now as well as in the past, and they can see the stage being rapidly set for his intervention in world affairs, just as he intervened in Egypt long ago. At that time there were faithful men and women who remembered his promise to Abraham and looked for deliverance from Egypt. Their desire for deliverance would have been intensified when the ruling Egyptian dynasty changed, transforming their lives for worse.
The record describes how Moses, though raised by his own parents, was counted the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and, in adulthood, was a prince of Egypt. But he preferred the marvellous things which God promises - eternal life in the promised land - to the wealth and glory of life in Egypt Hebrews 11:24-26Waiting for response for Hebrews 11:24-26