God Chose Moses for Unknown Reason

To understand the drama of Knights Templar, you must understand the drama of the Ark of the Covenant (yes, it was quite a dramatic story). To understand the drama of the Ark of the Covenant, you must understand the drama of Moses.

Just as with Patriarch Abram/Abraham, God did not bother to explain to us why He chose Moses to become his tool to dictate The Law to God’s Chosen People (the Jews) and to order the construction of the Ark of the Covenant. In other words, why He chose Moses to be His… I do not really like to call Moses a prophet.

For two reasons mostly; first, in a generally accepted meaning, “prophet” refers to an individual who makes highly important, global predictions of the future. Moses was nothing of the sort.

Second, even in a biblical sense, a prophet is someone who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. The messenger, not the leader – and Moses was a leader… essentially the ruler of the Jewish people. Dictator, even. 

Just as with Patriarch Abraham, I believe that God created Moses to be His tool for all of the above. In other words, Moses was born to be Moses… although initially it did not look like that at all. In fact, I was a miracle that he survived.

Moses’ mother hid him when Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through Pharaoh’s daughter, the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile and grew up with the Egyptian royal family.

After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb.

God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments and the whole Mosaic Law.

After years of wandering in the desert (no, it was no 40 years, that number is allegorical), Moses died on Mount Nebo at the age of 120, within sight of the Promised Land.

But not before giving the Jews the whole body of Mosaic Law… and the order to build the Ark of the Covenant.