Gary Gleans

                                                                                       Acts 7:35-43 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.  36  This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.  37  This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’  38  This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.  39  Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,  40  saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’  41  And they made a calf in those day

                                                                                  Acts 7:17-34 But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt  18  until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.  19  He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.  20  At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house,  21  and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.  22  And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. 23  “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.  24  And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.  25  He supposed

  Acts 7:9-16 And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him   10  and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.   11  Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.   12  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.   13  And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh.   14  And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.   15  And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,   16  and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. As Stephen continues his review of the history of Israel, he turns to