Do you applaud or condemn what this bible passage says Moses did?

Question

Hebrews 11

24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.

Answer 1

He did what he thought was right.

That's all any of us can do! Good bloke.

Answer 2

That last clause, "because he was looking ahead to his reward" is really problematic. It implies that Moses gave up a small treasure (wealth, power and fame) at one point in time in order to gain a much greater reward in wealth, power and fame later From a business angle, this makes sense. But then that would mean that Moses was a mercenary. In that case, he was s selfish b#$@%rd working for his personal gain !

On the other hand, he didn't know for sure what he will gain. And so the concept of 'faith' comes into play. He had much faith, and for that I would have to applaud him.

Of course, history shows that he made the right choice. How many of us today remember/know the name of even one of the Egyptian kings from that time? King Tutankhamen, maybe. Any others? But Moses is held in high esteem by three of the world's major religions.

Answer 3

Moses exemplary conduct is mentioned in Hebrews 11, the Faith Hall of Fame, for Christians to follow.

Answer 4

What Moses did was upright and pleasing in God's eyes, it's very commendable and a good example to follow. 1 John 2:15-17, Do not be loving either the world or the things in the world, If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because everything in the world-the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one's means of life-does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is it's desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.

Answer 5

Applaud! Jesus said what would it profit a man to gain the whole world. But lose his own soul.

For those in the Old Testament looked forward to the coming of Christ. Where we look back to the fist coming of Christ, and a head to the second coming.

PS: Its all there in Prophecy! As puts it, hundreds of years before Christ.

Answer 6

One wonders whether Moses actually regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as worth anything at all, and whether he was "looking ahead to his reward."

Moses pre-dated Christ by quite a long time, and the concept of the heavenly reward would not have been familiar to Moses.

Answer 7

It would be hard to find someone who would give up life in a palace to suffer persecution nowadays. I would definitely applaud Moses' dedication to his people.

Answer 8

i applaud it

He could have ignored the Israelites and lived his life in luxury - which makes his choice all the more real that he chose to step away from having everything and identify with his biological people and rescue them from being annihilated (something i feel after reading exodus that the Israelites never fully appreciated during his lifetime)

Answer 9

It is absurd to suppose that anything that Moses did was or was not done for the sake of Christ, who would not be born for hundreds of years.

Answer 10

I don't know. Should we then shun every thing that we are given on Earth because we are going to have that reward afterward? Hmmm...

Answer 11

Very similar to the story of the Buddha. It's commendable of course.