GODLY MEN OF THE BIBLE

4. MOSES

Moses faithfully represented God before Pharaoh and guided God’s people out of the land of Egypt and through the Red Sea. He received God’s commands on Mount Sinai and gave them to the people so that they would follow the Lord in all things. Yet, Moses got angry in the wilderness and struck the rock at Meribah to bring forth water, instead of speaking to it as God commanded. For this disobedience, God barred Moses from entering the Promised Land. Still, Moses kept his faith in God.

No other mere human in the Bible had a relationship with God like Moses did. Moses and God would regularly converse in the tent of meeting: “Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses’ face to face, as a man speaks to his friend” (Exodus 33:11).