I. Person

God developed Moses as a person to teach his people who Jesus Christ would be.

A. Fully Human: 

As a real person like the people he was sent to rescue, Moses could feel their pain and identify with their needs, just as Jesus can empathize with us (Cf. Heb. 4:15)

B. Miraculously Preserved: 

Despite the devil’s best efforts to halt our redemption by killing Jesus and Moses soon after their birth (Cf. Mt. 2:15), God extraordinarily preserved them, and prepared them to become sympathetic shepherds.

II. Work

God gave Moses a specific work to do in his redemptive plan.

A. Purpose of the Big Story: 

This, along with every other story of deliverance in the Bible, was intended to point to an infinitely greater meta-narrative—our redemption from every vestige of sin by Christ.

B. Purpose of the Little Story: 

Not only do we see in Moses’s earthly work what Christ did and does cosmically for us, we encounter the faithfulness of God who reminds his people throughout the Old Testament that the Exodus provides indisputable evidence that he fulfills his promises.