The 39 silent years

1. These are the years between Hebrews 11:23 and 24. In the Exodus account these are the same years between Exodus 2:10 and 11.

2. One verse, and one verse only, describes those 39 silent years: Acts 7:22. Acts 7:21 implies the 39 silent years; Acts 7:22 describes them. Literally from the Greek: “And Moses was educated in all of the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a dynamic man in words and in deeds.”

3. Moses was reared in the highest echelon of Egyptian society. He lived in the palace of the regent queen, Hatshepsut, as her adopted son.

4. He was brought up in the palace and was educated in the famous Egyptian colleges and universities.

5. Moses was a genius in many of the fields that he studied.

6. Moses was handsome, very strong, very gregarious. He was an accomplished public speaker and a great military leader. It was Moses who delivered the Egyptian empire from the Ethiopian menace.

7. Moses was also a great architect and contractor. He was loved by what must have been one of the most beautiful women in the world at that time, Neferure, the daughter of Hatshepsut.

8. Hatshepsut herself is a very attractive woman.

9. Moses was a man of great physical strength and athletic accomplishment.

10. By the time he was 40 years old Moses was the greatest man in Egypt, and Egypt was the greatest empire in the world. The genius of Moses overshadowed his palace rival, Thutmose III who himself was a genius and who, when Moses made his decision, would be the greatest king in Egyptian history.

11. Hatshepsut, however, was holding the throne for Moses, and her regency was highly successful.

12. But Moses makes a decision, reported in verses 24-26 of Hebrews chapter 11. He made a decision when he was forty years old, a decision which causes him to reject the throne of Egypt, a decision that was made on maximum doctrine resident in the soul.

13. The decision of Moses to turn down the throne made it possible for Thutmose III to immediately ascend the throne. It was a decision that cost him the love of Neferure who had to marry Thutmose III.