By Mary Cheng 7P
The story in the DVD is not told in absolute chronological order according to the Book of Exodus.
What can we assume has happened in the first scenes? Has someone been hurt? Who is being hunted?
Moses accidently pushes an Egyptian guard off the scaffolding of a building and sends him to his death. Although Ramses wants Moses to stay Moses feels bad for what he has done, so he runs away.
We are introduced to the Pharaoh, Ramses, and his son Menephtah. What sort of person is he? How has he behaved to Hebrews in the past? (Ex 1.22 especially)
The Pharaoh was scared of the Israelites becoming too strong so he ordered the death of every newborn Hebrew boy. The Pharaoh forced the Israelites into cruel slavery.
Moses flees to the desert. Who looks after him? And how? (Ex 2.15b-3.1a)
Reul a father of seven daughters offers him to stay and live with them because Moses helped his seven daughters against the shepherds. He also drew water and watered the flock for them. He married Zipporah, one of Reul’s daughters.
Moses tells his story, particularly of when he is very young. Can you recall some of the essential parts? (Ex 2.1- 15a)
The Hebrew women were forced to throw their sons in the river. Instead, Moses mother put him in a basket and floated it on the river. The pharaoh’s daughter was bathing in the river at the time and collected baby Moses as her son. The princess Moses’ own mother got to care for him and got paid by the Pharaoh’s daughter for doing so.
Why does Moses leave the camp to go into the mountains? What story did Jesus tell that reminds us of something familiar? (Luke 15.3-4)
Moses goes into the mountains to find a lost sheep.
Jesus spoke of the parable of the lost sheep “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it.”
Who speaks to Moses and from where?
God speaks to