Exodus 17 - But Moses hands were "faith"?

Mar 6 (edited) in Bible Study

Context: First battle against the seed of the serpent on the way to promised land (Amalek was a descendant of Esau. Name of Amalekites translates as "people of the crushed head"; see Genesis 3:15). Joshua (type of Christ) led the Israelites to battle and victory, looking to Moses stretched out hands on the hill in order to defeat them.

Moses stretched hands on the hill is a picture of the cross.
The literal Hebrew translation of Exodus 17:12 says that Moses hands were “faith” (trust; faithful).
Translators incorrectly translated his hands as "steady"
(Cross reference when Moses raised up the bronze serpent in the desert that the Israelites had to look upon to be saved from the snakes in wilderness. Jesus connects Himself to this story in John 3:14-15)

To summarize, Moses was stretched out like a cross, and when the people looked upon him with his hands stretched, they were looking upon him in faith and trust and they defeated the Amalekites. This was the first battle against God’s chosen people on way to Promised Land, and they were led to victory by Joshua, who was a type of Christ.

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Another interesting note: what about the “stone” that Moses rested on in verse 12?

The Hebrew word for “stone” that Moses rested on is אבן. It's a compound word made up of "father" אב (av) and “son” בן (ben). So it’s the literal Hebrew compound word for father-son… אבן = Stone.

If you do a word search of that Hebrew word it’s the same word used to describe the Messiah Jesus as the “Stone the builders rejected” (Psalm 118), the Shepard Stone (Genesis 49) and the Stone/cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16)

Like Moses, we ultimately “rest” (from our works) in Jesus.. and we do this through faith/trust (description of Moses hands in Exodus 17).

God does all the work - through us - to His glory.

8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and iHur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady (faith; trust; faithful) until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

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