Acts 7:17 ¶ But when the
time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew
and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another
king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our
fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not
live. 20 In which time Moses was born,
and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter
took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of
the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. 23 And when he was full forty years old, it came
into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong,
he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the
Egyptian: 25 For he supposed his
brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but
they understood not. 26 And the next day
he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one
again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust
him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the
Egyptian yesterday? 29 Then fled Moses
at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two
sons.
In verse 27 we see the
definition of a judge of the book of
Judges. It was a ruler. In Exodus the
word prince was used, the same thing.
Exodus 2:14 And he said,
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill
me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this
thing is known.
In the next passage all
three will be linked to deliverer
which hearkens back to Judges 3:9 and 15.
This reinforces how
word substitution between Old and New Testament helps define words in context
as meant by the Holy Spirit. See the previous comments on Luke 4:18 and Isaiah
61:1 to further understand how this method of interpretation works. Notice also
how by the use of word substitution the Holy Spirit defines words. By comparing
the two passages, one in Isaiah and one in Luke we see synonyms like preach and proclaim, deliverance and
liberty, gospel and good tidings, poor and meek. Experiment with that interpretation method and you will learn
some amazing stuff throughout the Bible in quotes made in the New Testament
from Greek with the Old Testament translated from Hebrew under the guiding hand
of the Spirit of God and Christ.
Acts 7:30 ¶ 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. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. 37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, 40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Some interesting things
about this passage include Sina from Greek for Sinai from Hebrew. Here we have
the synonyms that we can read back into Judges; ruler, judge, deliverer.
Stephen here links
Jesus with the Prophet foretold by Moses.
Deuteronomy 18:15 ¶ The
LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the
LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that
I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me,
They have well spoken that
which they have spoken. 18 I
will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that
I shall command him. 19 And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever
will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
This is not the first
time that connection is made.
John 6:14 Then those men,
when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
The angel that was with
Moses was the preincarnate Christ.
Judges 2:1 ¶ And an angel
of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of
Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and
I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of
the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and
he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
An angel is the
presence of someone or some thing that is somewhere else but which can act on
reality.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the
angel of his presence saved them: in his love
and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the
days of old.
Examples also include;
Matthew 18:10 Take heed
that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in
heaven their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven.
Revelation 1:20 The mystery
of the seven stars which thou
sawest in my right hand, and the seven
golden candlesticks. The seven
stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven
candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven
churches.
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