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Before God sent angels to destroy Sodom, He revealed His plans to Abraham who pleaded with God to save Sodom because of righteous people living there. But there were so few. So, God's angels in the form of men appeared at evening entering the city of Sodom. When Lot saw these visitors, he insisted they enter his house under his protection.God called Abraham while he was living in Ur of the Chaldees to go to a far country. He had no place to call home; only a promise that his descendants would one day have a home. Abraham's descendants would ultimately become enslaved by the Egyptians. God delivered the Children of Israel from slavery through Moses to go to the land of their inheritance, the land where Abraham had wandered. The Children of Israel%u2019s journey into that far country, Egypt, began with a cowardly act by Jacob's sons against a younger brother, Joseph, when they sold him to a band of Ishmaelites, descendants of Abraham's first-born son Ishmael. They sold him as a common slave and then deceived Jacob into believing Joseph had been killed by a wild animal. Joseph remained faithful to God and God used him in his plan to create a mighty nation from Abraham's descendants. This nation would occur after years of slavery in a nation that worshipped man-made gods rather than Almighty God.Compiler%u2019s Comment: Do people professing to be God%u2019s people allow Him to use them as Joseph did? End Comment.After some four hundred years in Egypt Moses was born. Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew children to be killed. %u201cBy faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.%u201d (Hebrews 11:23).Moses was found by Pharaoh's daughter who had compassion on him. Moses%u2019 sister summoned her mother and %u201cPharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.' So, the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, 'I drew him out of the water.%u2019%u201d (Exodus 2:9-10).At the appropriate time, Moses%u2019 mother took Moses to Pharaoh's daughter. %u201cMoses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his fellow Israelites. He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.%u201d (Acts 7:22-25).%u201cBy faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures