Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Chapter 22
Moses, the Leader of God's People
This chapter is based on Exodus 1 to 4.
In recognition of the service that Joseph had given to the
Egyptian nation, the children of Jacob were granted a part of the
country as a home, were not required to pay taxes, and were
generously supplied with food during the famine. The king publicly
acknowledged that it was through the God of Joseph that Egypt
enjoyed plenty while other nations were dying from famine. He saw,
too, that Joseph's management had greatly enriched the kingdom,
and his gratitude surrounded the family of Jacob with royal favor.
But as time rolled on, the great man to whom Egypt owed so
much passed to the grave, and "there arose a new king over Egypt,
who did not know Joseph." Not that he was ignorant of Joseph's
services to the nation, but he did not want to recognize them. As far
as possible, he wanted them to be forgotten. "And he said to his
people, 'Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and
mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they
multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our
enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.'"
The Israelites already "were fruitful and increased abundantly,
multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled
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