Moses---Guilty or Not Guilty?
How do you
view Moses' act of killing an Egyptian? Did Moses kill an innocent man?
What did the Church in Egypt think? What does the Church think now?
Do you see Moses as a murderer or as a deliverer?
How did Moses see himself? How did God see Moses? And how did the early Church see Moses?
What does the word of God say?
The account of the killing is found in the book of Exodus in the Holy Bible. See KJV chapter 2, verses 11 to 15.
In verse eleven Moses saw the burdens of his brothers. He also saw the oppressor (an Egyptian) beating a Hebrew.
Moses
took a stand for the defence of his Hebrew flesh and killed the
Egyptian. He buried the dead man with sand to hide him.
When
Moses went out the next day he saw two Hebrews fighting. Moses
questioned the man that was wrong. The man did not like Moses' stand as
a judge. The man questioned Moses whether Moses would kill him as he
killed the Egyptian. Later, Pharaoh judged Moses as guilty and sought
to kill him. Moses became fearful and so he fled to Midian.
Here
you have a view of someone in the Church (wrong doing Hebrew) seeing
Moses as guilty of murder. There were probably others in the Church
with the same view.
You
find that Pharaoh would not have given Moses a trial. The world
(Pharaoh) saw Moses as guilty. Someone might say, " Pharaoh was not
wrong because Moses didn't give the Egyptian a chance or a trial. He
judged him and killed him right away. " Well, I don't think that Moses
was unfair to the Egyptian. The Egyptians were guilty of perpetrating
murders against Israel. Remember how Moses himself had to be hidden
from the sword when he was a baby? The Egyptians in those days were
guilty of much innocent blood.
Another
person may say, " why didn't Moses do the right thing like we are doing
today? Why didn't he resort to the courts in Egypt for justice?"
Are
you kidding me? What justice? The Hebrews had no justice for them in
the Egyptian courts. It was high time that someone see the heart of God
and seek for immediate justice for the crushed and oppressed. Moses saw
God's heart. You will not see God's heart unless you follow the
examples of men like Moses. You will be stuck with the bad Pharaohs of
the world. Now don't get me wrong. I am not advocating killing when
there are courts and justice is available.
There
are those in the Church today who view Moses as a murderer. Many of
them were taught this view by the Church. Is the Church right or is it
taking a stand with the world?
If
you look at Acts
chapter seven, from verse twenty-two to verse twenty-nine you will see God's account as the Holy Spirit spoke through
Stephen. This should be seen as the view of the early Church. It should
be the view of the Church now.
In
verse twenty-four, Moses is shown as a defender and not as a murderer.
He was also executing vengeance. It was eye for an eye. Remember that
Moses knew the laws of the Egyptians. He was not without understanding
about justice, and vengeance as part of justice.
In
verse twenty-five you get a look at how Moses saw himself. He saw
himself as the chosen deliverer of the children of Israel. Some in the
Church did not understand that, so Moses got a bad rap. He was acting
as God's deliverer even then, but he could not make them see that. So
it was then. So it still is now when Moses is shown by the Church that
he was a murderer.
Wake up Church. Know your enemies. Know your friends.
Article Copyright 2006 Abdool Nizamuddin.
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I hope you enjoyed reading this blog about Moses.