We can say little for certain about the historical Moses, not even when he lived. He can only be known through the Biblical Chronicles that focus more in the templates that belong to the spiritual world rather than the physical one.
According to the Bible, Moses is born to Levite parents after Pharaoh decrees the death of all newborn Hebrew male. He, a "divinely beautiful" child, was spared from Pharaoh's genocidal decree by being hidden by his mother for three months, then placed in a papyrus ark on the Nile River where he is discovered by Pharaoh's daughter.
The princess raised Moses as her own. Through the sagacious action of his mother and sister, Moses came to be nursed and trained by his mother as she was hired by Pharaoh's daughter as her wet nurse.
Pharaoh's daughter named him "Moses"which meant to her: "Because I rescued him from the water."
The event as a whole symbolizes future events : Pharaoh's genocidal decree from which Moses is rescued serves as a model in the opposite way. God's rescue of his people from the powerful Egypt and the killing of all the Pharaoh's mighty army at the Red Sea, is the resemblance of Pharaoh, and the genocidal decree against the Hebrew males. The work of his servant Moses deals with the institution of the law because it is the foreshadow of the priesthood of Jesus Christ in the near future.
Then, Moses' symbolic name given by Pharaoh's daughter foreshadowed God's plan of deliverance of Israel, his people, from the waters of Egypt
In the scriptures we can understand this symbolic act when we read the Letter to the Hebrews that was written to believers that were facing an increasing opposition and were in danger of abandoning the Christian faith:
Heb. 3: My Christian brothers, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the Faith we profess. He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.
A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
Every house, of course, is built by someone, and God is the one who has built all things. Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.
But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
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