To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
But our ancestors weren't having it, they rejected Moses, pushed him away, and honestly? Their hearts were already back in Egypt.
Sometimes we reject the very person God sent to help us because we're still attached to our old life.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Acts, Stephen is delivering a defense speech before the Sanhedrin, recounting the history of Israel to show their repeated rebellion against God. He specifically refers to the Israelites in the wilderness who refused to obey Moses, the leader God had sent to deliver them from Egyptian slavery, and instead longed to return to their former life of bondage. This highlights a pattern of unfaithfulness that Stephen uses to parallel the current rejection of Jesus by the Jewish leaders.
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