This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Stephen presses the point that Israel received deliverance not because they earned it through godliness, but as sheer undeserved grace. God raised up Moses as their ruler and deliverer, yet they rejected him with contempt, which reveals their wickedness and ingratitude toward God's grace itself. Their scorn for a divinely appointed savior laid bare their stubborn refusal of what God freely gave.
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After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
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Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
Israel refused Moses, crying out against him; yet God sent him as ruler and deliverer. He was an eminent type of the Messiah, his deliverance from Egypt foreshadowing redemption from sin and Satan through Christ. As Moses was despised by his kinsmen and yet made their savior, so Jesus, rejected by the Jews, was exalted as Lord and Prince. God sent Moses by the hand of the second person of the Godhead, the uncreated Angel.
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