Acts 7:20-36

Moses' Rejection By God's People

Into such a climate, Moses was born, a child particularly pleasing to God. He was hidden by his parents for three months. Afterward, God caused him to be found by Pharaoh's daughter and reared as if he were her own son. He was taught everything the Egyptians of his day knew. He was a strong man in word and deed. At the age of forty, he visited God's people. He killed an Egyptian who was mistreating one of his brethren. Stephen says he thought they would understand God intended to deliver them by his hand but had to flee when a Jew questioned his authority and revealed he knew of the Egyptian's death. He fled to Midian, where he married and had two sons (Acts 7:20-29).

When Moses was eighty, God spoke to him from a burning bush in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. God told him He had seen His people suffering in Egypt and heard their groaning. He told Moses that he would deliver the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage. Stephen reminded his listeners that God did deliver His people from Egyptian bondage, the Red Sea and forty years in the wilderness by the hands of the very one who the children of Israel had previously rejected (Acts 7:30-36).