Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

them into the Promised Land. Thus, along came Moses! As a newborn infant, he survived a death threat against the Hebrews’ firstborn sons by being hid in a basket. Pharaoh’s daughter discovered the floating ark among the reeds of the Nile River. She chose to adopt the baby as her own, and for forty years Moses was raised in Pharaoh’s palace and educated in Egyptian art and military. He wore an Egyptian uniform but carried a Hebrew’s heart, as demonstrated when he killed a fellow Egyptian for beating a Hebrew slave (Exod. 2:11– 12). Fearing Egyptian retaliation, Moses fled from Egypt into the Midian desert. The baby who survived in a basket was now himself a forty-year-old basket case ! After forty years of watching his father-in-law’s sheep, Moses received a revelation at a burning bush (Exod. 3:2). Being raised in Egypt, Moses had been familiar with Ra, the Egyptian sun god; Apis, the bull god of prosperity; Amun; Ptah; Khnum; Aten; and numerous other Egyptian gods and goddesses.3 When the Almighty spoke to Moses from the bush, Moses asked, “Who are You?” Before the day concluded, Moses had met the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The instructions were clear: bring Israel out of Egypt back to the Promised Land . Returning to Egypt, Moses and his brother, Aaron, witnessed ten plagues that were an assault against the ten major gods of Egypt. On the fifteenth of Nissan, Moses directed six hundred thousand men and an estimated total of 1.5 million people, counting women and children, across the Red Sea into the wilderness. This exodus was the beginning of God preparing a people and preparing to reveal for the first time