One thing that has always puzzled me about the Exodus account and Israel’s deliverance out of Egypt is why didn’t the Pharaoh just eliminate Moses.

If the Pharaoh wanted to end this rebellion by his Hebrew slaves, the easiest and fastest way to do this would be to kill the rebel leaders, Moses and Aaron.

Now it could be argued that God protected Moses, and I am sure that was the case. But as we read the Exodus story we don’t see any hint that the Pharaoh even attempted to kill or arrest Moses.

Why didn’t the Pharaoh even try?

Well, the reason may be found in the verse below, where we read that the Lord had made Moses as God to the Pharaoh:

7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. (Exodus 7:1 NASV)

Though we have traditionally looked upon this verse as symbolically explaining the relationship between Moses and Aron, in fact, I think that it needs to be taken more literally.

As the son of the sun god Ra, the Pharaoh believed he was half god and half man. But Ra was not the only major deity in Egypt, so was the Nile god.

With Moses’ mysterious birth out of the Nile River, I am convinced that the Pharaoh believed that Moses was half god and half man as well, which is why the Pharaoh was too frightened to personally attack Moses.

I go into this in more detail in my podcast on how God conned a conman: