What Child Is This? Amram and Jochebed’s Son, Moses

Passage: Exodus 2:1-10

What child is this? A child is born. What we are noticing in this advent season is at critical moments in God’s salvation plan when God wants to do something really big, really important, He does something really small, a miraculous birth takes place, a child is born who will change the world or prepare the world for something greater. Exodus 1, background. Exodus begins with God’s people suffering. They have been suffering for a very long time, almost 400 years. They are slaves in Egypt suffering under the rule of severe taskmasters. They are abused, oppressed. Exodus 1:11, 13-14 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. … 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves. Think Jews in Germany under Hitler; Muslims in Myanmar and China, Christians in northern Nigeria. And then to add insult to injury, it gets worse, Pharaoh decrees to kill the Hebrew sons.