Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 As the time approached for realizing the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people multiplied and became more numerous in Egypt, 18 until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, ascended the throne. 19 By taking a cunning advantage of our race he oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to expose their infants so that they should not live. 20 At this time Moses was born. He was a divinely beautiful child. For three months he was cared for in his father's house. 21 When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. Thus 22 Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians, and was a mighty man in speech and action.
23 As he was rounding out his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the descendants of Israel. 24 Because he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended and avenged the man who was suffering ill-treatment by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God through his instrumentality was going to deliver them, but they did not. 26 The next day he showed himself to two of them engaged in a fight, and he tried to get them to make friends, saying, 'You are brothers, why should you harm each other?'
27 But the man who was harming his brother pushed him aside, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and referee? 28 Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'
29 At this statement Moses fled, and went and lived in the land of Midian, and became the father of two sons. 30 When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and when he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said to him, 32 'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.
33 Then the Lord said to him, 'Take your shoes off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground. 34 Because I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and heard their groans, I have come down to deliver them. So come! I will send you back to Egypt as my messenger.'
35 That very Moses whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and referee?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer, by the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush. 36 It was he who brought them out of Egypt by performing wonders and signs there and at the Red Sea -- as he did also in the desert for forty years.