Acts 7:36

Moses, A Rejected Savior

³⁵ “This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush. ³⁶ This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.’

Forty Years

In the Wilderness

Out of Egypt

Signs and Wonders

Through the Red Sea

In The Desert

Egypt

Exodus 12:41

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.

Exodus 33:1

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

Exodus 7:1-14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

Exodus 14:27-29

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

Exodus 16:35

The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Psalm 105:27-36

They performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.

Exodus 15:23-25

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Exodus 16:1-17

Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 19:1-20

In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 9:15-23

Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle, until morning.

Numbers 11:1-35

Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 14:1-45

Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

Numbers 16:1-17

Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took action,

Numbers 20:1-21

Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.

Deuteronomy 2:25-37

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

Deuteronomy 4:33-37

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

Deuteronomy 6:21-22

then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Nehemiah 9:10

“Then You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants and all the people of his land;
For You knew that they acted arrogantly toward them,
And made a name for Yourself as it is this day.

Nehemiah 9:12-15

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

Nehemiah 9:18-22

“Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, ‘This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,

Psalm 78:12-33

He wrought wonders before their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalm 78:42-51

They did not remember His power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalm 95:10

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

Psalm 105:39-45

He spread a cloud for a covering,
And fire to illumine by night.

Psalm 106:8-11

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.

Psalm 106:17-18

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.

Psalm 135:8-12

He smote the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and beast.

Psalm 136:9-21

The moon and stars to rule by night,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Acts 7:42

But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘It was not to Me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?

Acts 13:18

For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

Hebrews 8:9

Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.