One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro,the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father’s sheep and goats. But some shepherds drove Jethro’s daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them. When they returned to their father, he asked “Why have you come back so early today?”.
“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they answered.”
“Where is he” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man out there? Go and invite him to eat with us.”
So Moses decided to live there and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage, who bore him a son. Moses said to himself, “I am a foreigner in this land, and so I name him Gershom.”
Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God, who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham,Isaac, and Jacob. He saw the slavery of the Israelites and was concerned for them.
One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the dessert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up.
When the Lord saw that Moses was coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, “Moses! Moses!,” he answered, “Yes, here I am.”
Then the Lord said, “I have seen how cruelly my people ae being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings, and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring to them out of Egypt to a spacious land. Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his country.”
But Moses said to God, “I am nobody. How can I go to the king and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
God answered, ” I will be with you, and when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will worship me on this mountain. That will be the proof that I have sent you.”
“I am who I am. You must tell them: “The one who is called I AM has sent me to you’. Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, have sent you to them.”
(Quoted from Exodus 2:15-25; 3:1-22, Today’s English Version)
My readers, you may think why I’ve written this here in my blog. The purpose of it is for you to realize that God is really sending a messenger- not to mention Noah- to bring salvation to His people.
In different periods of time, God sends His messengers to save us.
We, the Iglesia ni Cristo members give value to the labors and sacrifices of God’s messenger in these last days- Bro.Felix Manalo.