What obliged Moses to leave Egypt, and go to the land of Midian? See Ex. ii. 11-15. Where is this circumstance related in the New Tes tament? Acts vii. 23-29. How old was Moses at that time? Whom did Moses marry, and what was his son's name? See Ex. ii. 16-22. Where did Moses lead the flock of his father-in-law? To what mountain did he come? Where is Mount Horeb situated? Why was it called the mountain of God? See Deut. iv. 10-13. How many years had passed since Moses left Egypt? Acts vii. 30. 2. How did the angel of the Lord appear to Moses? As Moses looked at the bush, what appeared remarkable about it? What is meant by consumed? Who was this, who was called the Angel of the Lord? What is the meaning of the word angel? Who is meant by the messenger of the covenant in Mal. iii. 1 ? What was represented by the bush in the midst of the fire and still not consumed? In what circumstances were the people of God at that time? What encouragement did this representation offer? 3. What did Moses say when he saw the bush?. 4. When Moses turned aside to see, who called to him? From whence did God call? What did he say? How did Moses answer? 5. What did the Lord then forbid Moses to do? How may sinners now draw nigh to God? See Heb. x. 19-22. What did the Lord bid Moses to put off? Why was that place peculiarly holy? What sort of conduct and feelings become sinners who draw near to God in his house? Ps. lxxxix. 7? 6. Whom did God then declare himself to be? What effect had this declaration ses? Why was Moses afraid to look upon God? upon Mo How did Isaiah express his feelings when he saw the Lord of Hosts? Is. vi. 5. Why has the sight or presence of a holy God such an effect upon his creatures? 7. What did the Lord say he had seen and heard? Why did they cry? he knew? Who are now the people of God? What comfort may they derive from this under thei sorrows? 8. Out of whose hand and power did the Lord say he had come to deliver his people? Into what kind of a land would he bring them? What was meant by the expression "flowing with milk and honey?" What nations then occupied that land to which God would bring his people? Why were these nations to be dispossessed, and their land given to the Israelites? Was this the land which had been promised to their fathers? 9. What did the Lord him? What had he seen? say had come unto What is meant by oppression? Does not God see all the oppression upon the earth? v. 7, 8? What is written in Prov. xxiii. 10, 11? 10. To whom did the Lord say he would send Moses? For what purpose? What is written concerning this in Acts vii. 35? What probably dictated this answer of Moses? 12. What did the Lord say to Moses to give him confidence? If God were certainly with him had he any cause to fear? What were the words of the Psalmist in Ps. cxviii. 6? What did the Lord say should be a token to Moses that God had sent him? Upon what mountain? What do you read of the fulfilment of this promise in Ex. xix. 1? Were Horeb and Sinai in the same chain of mountains? 13. Upon what occasion did Moses beg of God to instruct him what to say? How could it be that the children of Israel would be so ignorant of their God? Is there any reason to suppose that many of them had turned to the idols of Egypt? Sec Josh. xxiv. 14? 14. What name did God declare to Moses in answer to his question? What did he bid him tell the children of What is the meaning of "I am that I am?” What were the words of the Lord Jesus Christ to the What does he again declare himself to be in Rev. i. 11 ? 15. What did God moreover bid Moses say to the Israelites? How long shall this be the name and memorial of God? What is a memorial? Of what especial attributes of God should this name always remind his people? Ps. xxxvi. 5. What hope should believers now draw from the remembrance of God's faithfulness to his ancient people? LESSON XXXIV, Exodus, Chap. iv. verses 29-31, Chap. v. verses 1, 2, - Chap. vii. verses 19-21, Chap. viii. verses 5, 6, 16, 17, 20-24, and Chap. ix. verses 1-3, 6. Moses goes to Pharaoh and to the Children of Israel.-God's Judgments on Egypt. 29. Who went with Moses to deliver the message of God to the people? Who was Aaron? See Ex. iv. 14. Why was Aaron sent with Moses? Ver. 16. Whom did Aaron and Moses gather together? Where was Moses when the Lord appeared to him in the bush? Where did he go before he returned to Egypt? See Ex. iv. 18-20. Who were the elders of the children of Israel? 30. What words did Aaron speak before all the people? What was the substance of those words? What did Aaron do in the sight of all the people? What signs were these? See ver. 2-9. Why were these wonders to be wrought before Pharaoh and the people? 31. What effect had these words and signs upon the people? What did they do when they heard that the Lord had visited them, and looked upon their affliction? Chap. v. verses 1, 2. 1. To whom did Moses and Aaron afterwards go in? What did they say to Pharaoh? Had Pharaoh any right to detain the people? 2. How did Pharaoh answer Moses and Aaron? What feelings and dispositions prompted this answer of Pharaoh? |