God did not leave the children of Israel in Egypt without
a witness concerning their departure from the "land of bondage" and their entrance to the "land
of promise"
God gave the first patriarch, Abraham, a double time marker
concerning the "Exodus" of his seed from bondage
400 years from the time Isaac became his seed (Genesis 15:13-14)
Commences from the time Hagar, the Egyptian, is cast out
with her son (Genesis 21:10-12)
During the 4th generation of his seed left in Egypt (Genesis 15:16)
Jacob goes down to Egypt according to the Word of God
for the formation of the nation (Genesis 46:2-4 cf. Exodus 1:7)
Moses is the 4th generation of offspring from Jacob (Exodus 6:16,18,20),
beginning with the generation of Joseph and his brethren in Egypt (Exodus 1:5-6)
Satan's Plan of Destruction ("Pharaoh's Wisdom")
Pharaoh's
"wisdom" to limit the children of Israel commenced with the institution of bondage (Exodus 1:10-11), but yielded the opposite result (Exodus 1:12)
Pharaoh's
next course of "wisdom" was to commission the destruction of Israel's male children by the hand of the
Hebrew midwives (Exodus 1:15-16), but their fear of God overcame their fear of the king (Exodus 1:17)
to magnify the opposite result (Exodus 1:20-21)
Pharaoh's last resort of "wisdom" was to commission
the destruction of Israel's male children by the hand of his own people (Exodus 1:22),
but that did not prevent the conception and birth of God's deliverer (Exodus 2:1-2)
The Parents'
Testimony of Faith ("The Goodly Child")
By faith the parents of Moses "saw" that he
was a "proper" child (Hebrews 11:23) or as Stephen puts it, "exceeding fair" (Acts 7:20),
which are the only two occurrences of the Greek word "asteios"
The Septuagint version of the Old Testament describes
David as "ruddy ... and fair in aspect through the Lord" and it was by the Word of the Lord that Samuel
recognized it (I Samuel 16:12)
Faith comes by the hearing of the Word of God (Romans 10:17)
and, therefore, just as Samuel was Divinely instructed concerning the appearance of David, so were the parents
of Moses Divinely guided as to what to "look" for in the appearance of their son and so they acted in
faith (Exodus 2:2-4)
God honored the faith of Moses' parents and upset the
mighty Pharaoh's plan through a small circumstance (Exodus 2:5),
just as He later honored the faith of Mordecai and Esther and overruled the king's unalterable decree (Esther 8:8)
by another trivial event (Esther 6:1)
The God Who "created the ages" by His Word (Hebrews 11:3)
is the same God Who "raised up" Pharaoh to declare His Name throughout the earth (Romans 9:17 cf. Exodus 9:16)
Pharaoh "arose up a new king" (Exodus 1:8)
by conquest, which gave reason for his fear (Exodus 1:9),
just as a new kingdom is made to "arise and stand" in place of another (Daniel 2:31,39,44), according to the Divine interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream
Stephen says in his address to the Sanhedrin that "another
(Greek, heteros = 'different') king arose" (Acts 7:18)
Scripture agrees with the discoveries of the Egyptologists
that a new and different Assyrian dynasty commenced at that time (Isaiah 52:4)
Israel's last oppressor will be an Assyrian (Isaiah 10:24)
just as was the first one and, likewise, shall also be singularly and Divinely destroyed (Isaiah 30:30,33 cf. II Thessalonians 2:8)