Moses lived roughly 3,400 years ago—around 1526 to 1406 BC—during an era when builders were completing Stonehenge in England and the Shang Dynasty was shaping bronze-age China.
Born to Hebrew slaves in Egypt, he was supposed to die as an infant. Instead, a princess pulled him from the Nile and raised him in Pharaoh’s palace. He had every advantage. Every opportunity.
And he threw it all away.
At forty, he killed a man. Then he ran. For the next four decades, he tended sheep in the wilderness of Midian—a desolate region in what is now northwestern Saudi Arabia—convinced his life was over.
He was wrong.
At eighty years old, standing before a burning bush on the slopes of Mount Sinai in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Moses heard the voice of God call him to lead an entire nation out of slavery.
He argued. He resisted. He felt utterly unqualified.
And then he went anyway.
Moses is a story of second chances. Of purpose found late. Of ordinary people used for extraordinary things.