Exodus 2

Exodus 2:1-25

Section 2. (Exodus 2:1-25.)The humiliation and rejection of the deliverer. We now are introduced to the deliverer, raised up of God to fulfill His gracious purposes as to the people of His choice. That he is of Levi, third son of Israel, has a significance which we shall find dwelt on afterward. It speaks of the Mediator, “joined” to God and to the people, as Christ in His own person joins them -Son of God and Son of man. It speaks also of resurrection, typically fulfilled in Moses delivered up to death and brought out of it. The overruling hand of God is seen in his preservation, the power of the world serving one whom it knows not, and who is not of it, whom when revealed in his true character it rejects. Moses is still in all this a type of Christ. But he is rejected also by the people of his choice -the brethren for whom he humbles himself. There was a true desire for them, and presentiment in his mind that God had chosen him to be their deliverer; but they do not recognize him as such. No doubt there was failure on Moses’ part, and a work needed to be done in him as well as in them, before he could be to them really what his heart desired. But none the less distinctly did they reject one whose love, at all cost to itself, would be their servant. “Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?” is the answer of unbelief, and Moses flees into Midian at that saying. It is as rejected by His brethren, it hardly needs to say, that we have to do with the Lord Jesus now. We find him, then, in Midian; and soon with a Gentile bride, to whom also he has been, first of all, a deliverer. But his son’s name tells us that he has yet found no real home. He names him “Gershom,” “a stranger there;” for he says, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” Beautifully in the son is expressed the thought of the father’s heart, as our character and position in the world is to reflect and manifest the thoughts of His heart to whom in endeared relationship we belong. But the days of Israel’s bondage are coming to an end. God has heard their groaning, and it is to be seen that He remembers His covenant with their fathers -that in which He is Himself revealed. The next section brings us to this revelation.