No — according to Les Feldick, nothing happens by accident, and God was sovereignly working to preserve Moses as Israel's deliverer.
Exodus 2 records the sequence: Pharaoh's daughter came to the river, saw the ark, and opened it. Les Feldick teaches that Moses' parents acted by faith and that "nothing happens by accident," so this meeting was under God's sovereign control.
Exodus 2:5 — Shows Pharaoh's daughter coming down to the river and spotting the ark, where the meeting occurs.
Exodus 2:6 — Records her opening the ark, seeing the Hebrew child, and having compassion.
Scripture places Moses in an ark of bulrushes, sealed with slime and pitch, and laid in the flags by the river's brink (Exodus 2:3). When Pharaoh's daughter came down to wash herself at the river, she saw the ark among the flags and sent her maid to fetch it (Exodus 2:5). Opening it, she saw the child weeping and said, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children' (Exodus 2:6). The Bible never labels this meeting an accident. It simply records the sequence: Pharaoh's daughter came, saw, opened, and was moved with compassion. His sister then offered to call a Hebrew nurse, and Pharaoh's daughter told her to go — bringing the child's own mother back to care for him (Exodus 2:7-9). The child grew, and Pharaoh's daughter named him Moses, saying, 'Because I drew him out of the water' (Exodus 2:10).
Les Feldick shows that God was getting ready to deliver His covenant people, and that He took a deliverer — Moses. He says Moses' parents hid him because by faith they saw more than a baby: they saw someone God would use. Then Les makes the striking point: 'never forget, nothing happens by accident.' So the fact that Pharaoh's daughter found Moses was not a coincidence; God was sovereignly moving events to keep Moses alive and to set up the rescue of Israel.
Moses' parents hid him for three months because they saw by faith that he was not just a pretty child but a special child in God's line of service. Les Feldick emphasizes that they took 'extra pains to keep him alive' and then placed him in an ark of bulrushes when they could no longer hide him (Exodus 2:2-3).
The biblical account shows Pharaoh's daughter at the river at the same time the ark was among the flags (Exodus 2:5). Les Feldick teaches that God was stepping into the picture to deliver Israel and that nothing happens by accident. So the timing of this encounter was part of God's sovereign plan, not chance.
Pharaoh's daughter saw the babe weeping, had compassion, and recognized him as a Hebrew child. The narrative shows her sending her maid to fetch the ark and later agreeing to have a Hebrew woman nurse the child. This is part of the sequence God used to preserve Moses.
God Prepares a Deliverer
Les teaches that God was getting ready to deliver Israel and that Moses' parents saw by faith that he was a child God would use — setting the stage for the events at the Nile.
Moses Recognized as Special
Les explains why Moses was 'exceeding fair' — not just handsome, but special in God's line of service — and notes that Pharaoh's daughter took him up and raised him as her own son.
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He was Egyptian. My land, he'd been raised in Pharaoh's palace now for 35 years, but inside, what is he? He's a Hebrew. He's an Israelite. And so they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock. Well, and then you know what happened.
Nothing Happens by Accident
Les explicitly says 'nothing happens by accident,' grounding the answer that Pharaoh's daughter's arrival at the river was not a matter of chance.
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The Burning Bush & The Angel of the Lord: Who Did Moses Really See?
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Why God Holds Everyone Without Excuse — Romans 1:18-21
As soon as God began dealing with Pharaoh, through Moses and Aaron, when they confronted him and said, "...let our people go." God was putting Pharaoh on the spot, wasn't He? That's what He was doing, and He was giving him a choice to either let Israel go, or not let them go. And you know what he did? He chose not to let them go.
Exodus 2:3: And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
The ark's placement at the river sets the scene for Pharaoh's daughter to discover it.
Exodus 2:5: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
These are the exact circumstances of the meeting: she came to wash, saw the ark, and sent her maid.
Exodus 2:6: And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
Her compassion for the crying child is the immediate response to finding him.
Exodus 2:10: And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
This verse shows that Pharaoh's daughter intentionally adopted him and gave him the name Moses.
No. Les Feldick teaches that nothing happens by accident, and the Bible records that she came to the river, saw the ark among the flags, and sent her maid to fetch it. God was at work behind the scenes.
She said, 'This is one of the Hebrews' children' (Exodus 2:6). She had compassion on him and agreed to have a Hebrew woman nurse him.
They hid him for three months and then placed him in an ark of bulrushes because they could no longer hide him. Les Feldick says they acted by faith, seeing him as a special child God was going to use.
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