Three Witnesses

Three witnesses.  Moses is concerned that the Israelites will not believe him, nor obey him, when he tells them that the Lord had sent him to deliver them (Exodus 4:1).  The next things we read about are three signs, and for the title of this post I have called them witnesses.  The first was for Moses to throw his staff on the ground and God turned it into a snake.  God then instructs Moses to pick the snake up by the tail and God turns it back into a staff (Exodus 4:3-4).  God specifically tells Moses the reason for these signs are “so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you” (v.5).  If the people would not believe this first sign, then maybe the would believe the second sign (turning his hand to a diseased white appearance and then turning it back like the rest of his skin).  If not the first two sings, then perhaps they would believe the third sign (turning water from Nile into blood).  Each one of these three signs were to be witnesses to the Israelites that God had in fact met with Moses and it was God that sent him to Egypt to deliver them from Pharoah’s hands.  These three signs remind me of the New Testament Scripture about witnesses: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one” (1 John 5:7-8).