No where in the pages of history can there be found a more dynamic intervention of God to save His people than the recorded events of the deliverance of the Children of Israel from their bondage in Egypt. God delivered His people out of their sorrows.

The deliverance of the Children of Israel bears record of the power of God but it also reveals the continual weakness of man in his human condition. From the opening dialogue between God and Moses at the burning bush to the last words of Moses to God at the river Jordan, man’s inability to hear what God intended is demonstrated again and again.

Moses is recognized as the greatest of the Old Testament prophets, and rightly so, but Moses allowed something to occur that eventually would prove to be devastating. It first began when he expressed his lack of being eloquent of speech and God said that Aaron could "be thy spokesman . . . and thou shalt be to him instead of God." It continued when the people told Moses that they were fearful of hearing God speak: "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die." Finally, the conspiracy developed to its final error when Jethro suggested that Moses should "provide out of all the people able men . . . and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens."

It sounds so noble but it proved to be so devastating. Neither Moses nor the first generation who came out of Egypt went into the promised land. God said to gather the people and He would speak to them. Yet, a man was put between God and the people causing the people to fall far short of what God intended.