By Irving Serrano
Some would agree He, was the most important figure in Judaism, Moses, parted the Red-Sea to free his people and brought them the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. His story appears in the Bible, and is filled with miracles and talks with God. At birth; the Hebrews, descendants of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, are slaves to Egypt's King (Pharaoh) who has ordered newborn males killed. Moses Mother hides him in a papyrus basket among the Nile`s reeds. Pharaoh`s daughter finds him, takes pity and adopts him. He flees as a young man, but God appears to him in a burning bush, and years later sends him back with his brother, Aaron, to demand the Israelites release. Plagues arrive, the Hebrews escape, and Egypt`s Army drowns in the Red-Sea. A wilderness sojourns follows, in which God, through Moses, makes a covenant with the Hebrews and lays out rites of worship and Laws of communal and personal behavior. At the age of 120, Moses dies by God`s decree just before the people enter into the land known in recent centuries as Palestine and Israel. His Hebrew name, Moshe, means " the one who draws out".....His story starts in Exodus, and ends in Deuteronomy, two of the ;five books of Moses" or, in Hebrew, the Torah ("Law") It includes the escape from Egypt.... The burning bush and stone tablets, appear on Mt. Sinai. Moses is also a figure of faith in Christianity and a Prophet in Islam. Also found in the Koran. In today's world, God makes it possible for us to serve Him, to follow and share the message of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. We must keep our sights on God. We must practise the Faith, and trust whole heartedly, and like Moses, find favor in Gods eyes, until the end of time.
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