Moses' Bad Decision

2. Moses' Bad Decision

"For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his (Moses') hand would deliver them (Israel): but they understood not."- Acts 7:25

God had called Moses to deliver the nation of Israel out of bondage from the nation of Egypt after 400+ years.  The circumstances relating to Moses' disobedience of that calling and his spending 40 years on the back side of the desert in wasted time is recorded in Exodus 2:1-25; Exodus 3:1-22.  Now, notice Acts 7:29-30 :

"Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush."

You see Moses wasted 40 years by willfully disobeying God's will for him to lead the children of Israel out of bondage.  After 40 years on the back side of the desert, Exodus 3:1-22 reveals to us that the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.  After dealing with Moses in this manner, Exodus 3:10 enlightens us that God again seeks to have Moses obey His will as He commands him again to go unto Pharaoh.  My question is, "Would God ask Moses to lead the children of Israel and then put it into Moses' mind to be disobedient to God's command?"  This would be unbelievable!  We do find, though, that Moses out of his own free will chose to disobey God.  God did not over-ride the free will of Moses.  Forty years later God dealt with Moses again and this time Moses chose to obey.