God Helps The Hebrews

The Hebrews have a very Holy view of god. God always saved them in the most difficult situations, especially with Moses. He is, as they call “The Lord”, because he is always on the watch for them. Anyways there is a bit of separation between them and god. Sometimes they challenge him, the bible shows this “And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” (Exodus 17, 3) Although Moses doesn’t have a direct answer to this, we find that as he asks “Lord God” there is an immediate response, in this case water sprouts out of a rock. It seems as though God is trying to prove himself, as Superman would try to prove he has powers, God does the same. He tells Moses to tell the Jews that he will give them bread, or water, or even appear onto them, and he does it.

After some time, the people begin to have faith and respect to God, but also fear sprouts in their minds. The Bible show us this, “And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” (Genesis 20, 19) This line shows us how people don’t want to get so close to god, in fear that they may die. We humans are afraid to the unknown, and God in this point is unknown for many of the Jews in this moment. This may be the reason for their fear, or is there another reason.