reading from Exodus chapter 4 verse 19 through 26 are we given any indication as to why God

decides he wants to kill Moses after he sends him back to Egypt from I guess Jeff's Jeff

yeah so I've looked up some stuff to answer this question Jeff you've asked it several times it times. It's a great question. So I haven't been able to get to it sooner. Let's go ahead and look at the text. Let's start with verse 21. Exodus chapter 4, verse 21. And the Lord said to Moses, when you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh, all the miracles that I have put in your power, but I will harden

his heart, Pharaoh's heart, so that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh,

thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son. And I say to you, let my son go that he might

serve me. If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.

Then verse 24, this is what you're getting at. At a lodging place on the way the Lord met Moses and sought,

it says met him, but I believe it's Moses, met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zippora took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin

and touched Moses' feet with it and said,

surely, you are a bridegroom of blood to me,

so he let him alone.

It was then that she said Zamoora,

a bridegroom of blood because of the circumcision.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's a good question because it is a confusing passage.

Let me read a little bit of commentary that I've got from John Gill.

So I was looking it up.

John Gill, he was the Reform Baptist pastor in the same church that Charles Spurgeon was the pastor of and Charles Spurgeon was

a hundred years later. John Gill is arguably, I think, one of the greatest reformed Baptist

theologians that we have in church history. So here's some of his commentary on this very

difficult text. He says, so it was that the Lord met him and sought to kill

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