Exodus 4: 24-31: “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.”
The Lord made a contract with Abram when he was ninety years old(see Gen 17: 4-6, “As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.”). This contract involved God making Abram’s descendants into many nations, however, Abraham’s descendants had to be circumcised as his part of the contract. If a man was not circumcised then he would forfeit his place as part of the contracted people. The Lord called Moses to set Israel free but Moses had not kept his part of the contract by circumcising his own son. The Lord reminded Moses of the importance of keeping his part of the contract but his wife understood the message and made sure that everything was complete. (If anyone wants to serve the Lord today they have to understand that it is essential to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their own personal Saviour and trust nothing else.) As Moses came back to Egypt, the Lord told his brother Aaron to meet him because Moses told the Lord he needed someone to speak for him. They met the Israeli leaders and these leaders worshipped the Lord because they were suffering as slaves and longed for freedom. However, when things got hard later they forgot about that suffering and suggested that they would have been better off in Egypt (see Num 11: 5, 6 “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.” for example).
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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