Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 And as the time of the promise which God had made with an oath to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, 18 till another king arose, who knew not Joseph. 19 He dealt insidiously with our race, and afflicted our fathers, so that they exposed their infants, in order that they might not live. 20 At which time Moses was born; and he was exceedingly beautiful, and was nursed three months in his father's house. 21 But having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and educated him as her own son. 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 When he had completed his fortieth year, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them unjustly treated, he defended and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian. 25 And he supposed that his brethren would understand that, by his hand, God would give them salvation: but they under stood not. 26 And on the next day he showed himself to them, as they were fighting, and endeavored to persuade them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers: why do you injure one another?
27 But he that was doing the injury to his neighbor, thrust him. away, saying, Who made you a ruler or a judge over us? 28 Do you intend to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?
29 And at that saying Moses fled, and became a resident in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons. 30 And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and as he was drawing near to observe it, the voice of the Lord came to him: 32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abra ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not observe it.
33 Then said the Lord to him: Loose your shoes from your feet; for the place in which you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them; and now come, and I will send you into Egypt.
35 This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent as a ruler and as a redeemer, by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after he had performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness, forty years.