Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 "When the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 till another king arose which knew not of Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their young children, that they should not remain alive. 20 The same time was Moses born, and was a proper child in the sight of God, which was nourished up in his father's house three months. 21 When he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him up for her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all manner wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in deeds and in words.
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. 24 And when he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged his quarrel that had the harm done to him, and smote the Egyptian. 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hands should save them: but they understood not. 26 And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye one another?'
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge among us? 28 What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?'
29 Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian; Where he begat two sons. 30 "And when forty years were expired, 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 drew near to behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 'I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled and durst not behold.
33 Then said the Lord to him, 'Put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground. 34 I have perfectly seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now, come: and I will send thee into Egypt.'
35 This Moses whom they forsook, saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge?' - the same God sent, both a ruler and a deliverer, by the hands of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. 36 And the same brought them out showing wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the reed sea, and in the wilderness forty years.