n God commanded Moses to order gnats to swarm Egyptians and the Pharaoh’s magicians could not match the power of Moses. Pharaoh’s heart remained cold and he would not let the people go, so Moses ordered progressively crueler plagues on the Egyptians. God hardens Pharaoh’s heart many times to test the faith and commitment of Moses. Moses didn’t know God was doing this and was absolutely frustrated. He gives up everything he knows to perform this task and he keeps getting rejected. The last plague was what made the Pharaoh change his mind about the Hebrew’s freedom. The Angel of Death took the first born of every living thing in Egypt, including the son of Pharaoh. Moses suffered great frustration because of his continual confrontations with Pharaoh, but finally God’s bidding was reality. Moses gained some respect from the Hebrew people, but they didn’t want to change the ways of the past. The Hebrews bore witness to the acts of violence Moses performed on the Egyptians; so naturally, the Hebrews would fear the power of Moses. Moses had an incredibly hard task in that he had to lead an incoherent mass of people out of oppression. His faith, and trust in God, is why Moses succeeded and that which made him the ultimate model of a patriarch. Moses did everything that God told him to do and he did it with all his might. He firmly believed that God would see him through the hard times. God wants the people to know that he is the one Lord, and that there are no humans that compare. This is why he goes through all the trials with Pharaoh. Moses’ faith delivered him through all the questions and doubts of the Hebrew people as they proceeded on the forty-year journey to the "Promised Land of milk and honey." Faith and trust in God helped him to be a leader for the people. However, Moses was not the perfect, sin-free prophet, in the sense he murdered a man directly and was the cause of the d...
