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Moses feared the king.
"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. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from
the face of Pharaoh." Exodus 2:14-15
Moses did not fear the king.
"By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible." Hebrews
11:27
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Solution:
In order to understand these verses, one has to read the entire account of Moses’ life in Exodus.
Before he received his commission from God, Moses was a prince in the House of Pharoah. Because he was initially weak in
faith, Moses fled to the wilderness, where he met his wife. When God later came to meet him in the burning bush, Moses realized
then that he had a mission to perform for God, and his confidence began to build.
After that event, God told Moses to confront Pharoah by asking him to let the Israelites offer sacrifices in the wilderness.
When Aaron, Moses’ brother, was allowed to accompany him with the power to perform miracles, Moses became strong and
confident in God’s calling for him. So by the time the last plague was performed on Pharoah, Moses did not fear the
king at all; he rather feared God. He “forsook Egypt” through the Red Sea in what would be his final victory
over Pharoah.
In the process of these events, Moses became a strong and brave man(despite his old age) who grew remarkably in his faith
in God.
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