“Why was God going to kill Moses right after he sent him to
Egypt. For that matter, what was God doing in human form on earth.”
Many have responded that it was judgment for Moses’ failure to circumcise his son as required.
Mathew Poole comments that this was “a greater sin in Moses than in another man, and at this time than it had been before, because he understood the will and law of God about it better than any man, and God had lately (re)minded him of that covenant of his with Abraham, etc., whereof circumcision was a seal; the blessings and benefits of which covenant Moses was now going to procure for himself and for his people,
-whilst he remained under the guilt of grossly neglecting the condition of it.
-Besides, what could be more absurd than that he should come to be a a lawgiver, who lived in a manifest violation of God’s law?”
As for what God was doing in human form on earth? It doesn’t say he was in a human form. God can meet you and still not be in a human form.
Still, many times it does say He comes in human form. For instance, when He wrestles with Jacob, a physical contest.
And most remarkably when Jesus came, in the flesh, “Emmanuel,” translated “God with us.”
Why does He come in human form? It doesn’t say, not that I can remember, but you know, God visits His people. He loves us.
Not buying it. It’s only 8 lines in the old testament. Personally I think it was something that the editors or the OT missed, and modern editors are trying to gloss over. Particularly because God appears as human, like the greek gods.
It had something to do with Moses being told to talk to the stone rather than hitting it with a rod.To hit it with his rod took God out of the picture as the people could give moses credit for the water and not the glory to God....(this is my memory of what scripture said about why Moses would not enter the promise land, but God showed it to him before he died.....No one knows where he was buried so that a shrine or Idol could be made of his grave...(Again I have to depend on my old memory to dig these things out)