From this point on, please bear with me as I use a bit of poetic licence, not to embellish but for us to appreciate Moses’ journey back in time.

• Moses saw the seven-day miracle of creation. Initially, nothing. Then the separation of water (seas) and land (earth). Day and night ushered in. earth life, beast of the fields, fish of the seas and birds of the air.

• Moses (in Christ Jesus) sees God forming Adam out of dust and giving him the breath of life (eternal life). Man and woman are created in God’s Image (man is also a triune being – body soul and spirit). God, THE HOLY SPIRIT, breathed eternal life into Adam and by extension every single human being. 

I want to pause here for a moment, bear with me. 

• The way the HOLY SPIRIT’s name is pronounced in Hebrew (Ruach) it actually sounds like the first breath taken in at birth and the last breath (exhaled) at death. 

• He saw the first recorded operation as God removed a rib from Adam’s side as the nucleus for Eve’s formation. God who reads our minds and the intentions of our hearts hears Moses’ question, “Why a rib from his side and not a bone from his head or his feet?”. God speaking into Moses’ mind lets him know, “So that she can be at his side as his helper and companion to love and to cherish and not to sit on his head or for him to trample her underfoot.”

• All is progressing well until Lucifer, that crafty old devil uses a serpent (snake) to beguile Eve and Adam into disobeying God by eating the forbidden fruit. The result of their disobedience was being, banished from the Garden of Eden, loss of their ownership and oversight of the garden, enmity between them and the snake, where previously there was harmonious co-existence between all the beast of the field and man. But more importantly, they lost fellowship with God. Another verse that intrigues me is Genesis 3:14. God tells the snake because of the part you played in this horrible deception, unlike the other animals (cattle and beast of the field), you shall slide on your belly in the dust. Before the snake was cursed could it have been an animal that moved about as other animals. The Bible is quiet on this point except for his reference. 

• Moses next witnesses the brothers Cain and Abel making their sacrifices unto God. The blueprint has been and will always be a blood sacrifice. Able applied the law but Cain did not. Cain, being a farmer thought he could get away with his sacrifice of fruit and vegetables which God did not accept. Moses now witnesses, and records for us the first murder. Cain, in anger and jealousy, I could imagine his thoughts, “God, You want a blood sacrifice I shall give you one.” So he kills innocent Able. Is this not so like us as humans? We do wrong and seem to always blame God for it and lash out at others. Moses is appalled but he can do nothing. This is man’s history unfolding.

• Moses, though he cannot reveal himself in any way as God is only showing it all to him, rejoices when he sees the close walk that Enoch had with God. He went for a walk one day accompanied by God. Their fellowship was so close and wonderful that time and space stopped to exist. Alongside God, Enoch walked straight into heaven. 

• We could discuss The Tower of Babel, man’s attempt at getting into heaven. Today we see how futile it is. Even our spaceships are unable to reach some of the distant planets in our solar system never mind heaven. Yet, for those who die in the Lord, the journey is instantaneous, “absent from the body (dead) is to be present with the Lord (in heaven).”

• Let us skip to righteous Noah. To me, and Moses in seeing him at work, will agree, is the greatest shipbuilder that ever lived. He took 100 years to accomplish this marvellous undertaking by using “ancient, unknown to us, equipment, skills I believe, that were God-given and using God’s blueprint for its building. He saw the animals enter in two by two (as pairs) that faithful day before the flood started.  I could imagine him telling God (God reading his thoughts), tell Noah to get rid of the mosquitos and the flies. God’s reply would have been something like, “No Moses. They are part of my creation and are only a nuisance to man because of Adam’s (man’s) fall.

• THE FLOOD. It was an unpleasant sight, in fact, it was terrifying. We, today, read, see and witness the destructive forces unleashed when flooding takes place at various locations on planet Earth. It leaves behind it loss of life, property etc. which takes months, if not years to re-establish. He witnessed the complete destruction of the land. Only the fish of the seas were spared (my thinking). Again, how great is Our God? It did not take long for the earth to be re-established. Man’s wickedness increased again. 

• Next, Moses sees God’s destruction of the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is a sign to future generations – If you play with fire, you will get burned.  Again I am reminded of that warning in Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the Living God (incurring His judgement and wrath).

• Let’s move ahead to Abraham, the man of faith, the friend of God. In obedience, he left all that he held dear, family, friends and familiar surroundings and travelled as God directed to a place, he wasn’t even aware of. Moses took in and recorded some of Abraham’s trials and tribulations. He was present when Isaac, God’s promised son, was born when both, Abraham and his wife Sarah were past childbearing age. 

• Still with Abraham, he now sees God requesting he go and sacrifice his son Isaac. Shocked, he questions God why? God, You have just given him Isaac now You want him to sacrifice him to You? I can see God imprinting this on his mind “Moses, be patient and watch”. They approach the sacrificial site. He hears Isaac’s question of his father, “We have the wood and the fire for the sacrifice, but where is the sacrifice itself.” Abraham, knowing that Isaac was to be the sacrifice, heartbroken, could not answer, except, “God Himself shall provide.” Abraham, we now know, spoke for the present but also prophetically spoke about Jesus Christ (GOD’S OWN SON) would one day be sacrificed on that very mount for all our sins and to restore us into fellowship with HIMSELF. God, now fully convinced of Abraham’s obedience did provide a sacrifice, an animal (a ram) caught in the thicket.

• Later, Abraham sends his servant back to his “hometown” to get a wife for Isaac. God again, as Moses witnesses, miraculously provides a wife, Rebekah, for Isaac. Moses is now beginning to see how God is preparing for Himself a nation that will be set aside for His Glory. With God. Nothing is by chance or merely coincidental, but every move is orchestrated by Him. I refer to Him, reverentially, as the Perfect Chess Player. He knows our every move before we make it and counters with precisely the correct move/s, not to confuse but rather to maintain order and balance. 

• Isaac has two boys, twin, of which Esau, the hunter, is his favourite, and Jacob, is the older, and Jacob [later renamed by God as Israel, chosen as the lineage for the Messiah. WE are well aware of the story of how he had to run away from Esau, to his mother’s people’s family. Here God took care of Jacob and caused him to prosper. He eventually marries Leah his uncle’s two daughters. He eventually returns home, with two wives and their two servants. He is the father through these four women of twelve sons and a daughter. The twelve sons are recorded as the tribes of Israel.

• Moses next witnesses, Jacob’s activities, his marriages and the resultant twelve sons who later became known as the twelve tribes of Israel. Jacob (Israel) showed Joseph favouritism and made him a coat of many colours. God gave him dreams about his future status as a leader which he boldly, but foolishly, shared with his family. These two issues angered his brother who, when the opportunity arose, sold him into slavery. His new owners, the Midianites in turn sold him to Potiphar (Pharaoh’s Captain of the guards). Potiphar’s household prospered whilst Joseph worked as his servant. Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce Joseph and in failing accused him unjustly. In anger Potiphar has Joseph jailed in the dungeon. Joseph did not understand what was going on but faithfully continued serving God. Some years later, again through God’s miraculous interventions, Joseph is brought before the pharaoh. He gave the pharaoh the interpretations of his dreams whereupon, the pharaoh immediately elevates to Prime Minister of Egypt. The unfolding of God’s promise to him has begun. Not long after that, he is reunited with his family and Moses recodes all this and more for us.