Jesus Moments: Moses - Finding Jesus in the Story of Moses - Hardback

Jesus Moments: Moses — Discovering How Moses Points to Jesus

The story of Moses is one of the most dramatic and beloved in all of Scripture.

A baby hidden in a basket on the Nile. A burning bush in the desert. Ten plagues and a mighty deliverance. The parting of the Red Sea. Forty years in the wilderness. The giving of the law on Mount Sinai. A leader who brought God’s people from slavery to the edge of the promised land.

It is a story of extraordinary power, breathtaking miracles, and remarkable faith. But like every story in the Old Testament, it is also pointing somewhere. Running through every moment of Moses’ life — through every rescue, every act of deliverance, every encounter with God — is a thread that leads forward to the one Moses himself was always anticipating.

Jesus said so himself: “Moses wrote about me.”

Jesus Moments: Moses by award-winning author Alison Mitchell is a beautifully illustrated Old Testament storybook that helps children aged 4 to 7 begin to see that thread — to discover the moments in Moses’ story when something in it is a little bit like Jesus, and to take another step in developing the most important reading skill a young Christian can have: the ability to see the whole Bible as one story about Jesus.

This is the second book in the celebrated Jesus Moments series.

Moses and Jesus — A Connection Written Into the Story

The connection between Moses and Jesus is not something that has to be forced onto the text of Scripture. It is woven into it — explicitly acknowledged by Jesus himself, developed by the New Testament writers, and visible to any reader who knows what to look for.

Moses was the great deliverer — the one through whom God rescued his people from slavery in Egypt. Jesus is the greater deliverer — the one through whom God rescues his people from the far deeper slavery of sin and death.

Moses was the mediator of the old covenant — the one who stood between God and his people, receiving the law on their behalf and interceding for them when they failed. Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant — the one who stands between God and his people not merely to pass on commands but to bear their punishment and secure their forgiveness.

Moses led God’s people through the waters and into the wilderness — sustaining them with bread from heaven and water from the rock. Jesus leads his people through death and into new life — sustaining them with himself as the true bread from heaven and the living water that satisfies forever.

Moses saw the promised land from a distance but could not enter it himself. Jesus has not only entered the true promised land but has opened the way for all his people to follow him in.

Jesus Moments: Moses helps children aged 4 to 7 begin to see these connections — not in an abstract or theological way, but in the concrete, visual, interactive, story-by-story way that young children can genuinely grasp and delight in.

How the Book Works

Like the first book in the Jesus Moments series, Jesus Moments: Moses uses a simple but highly effective interactive device: throughout the book, moments when something in Moses’ story is a little bit like Jesus are signposted with symbols that children are invited to spot.

This symbol-spotting feature transforms the reading experience from passive listening to active, engaged discovery — making children genuine participants in the process of connecting Moses’ story to Jesus rather than simply recipients of information.

The benefits of this approach are multiple and significant:

• Children develop the habit of reading the Old Testament with eyes that look for Jesus — the single most important hermeneutical skill a young Bible reader can cultivate
• The connections between Moses and Jesus become personally discovered rather than simply told — which makes them far more memorable and far more meaningful
• The interactive element makes the book genuinely enjoyable to read repeatedly — and each re-reading deepens the child’s understanding and strengthens the connections they have begun to make
• The symbol-spotting creates natural, organic conversation opportunities between parent and child about what the connections mean and why they matter

By the time children have worked through the book, they have not just heard about Moses. They have taken a significant step toward reading the whole Old Testament the way Jesus himself said it should be read — as a book that is fundamentally about him.

What Children Will Discover

As they journey through the key moments of Moses’ extraordinary story, children will begin to notice the remarkable ways in which Moses and the events of his life foreshadow Jesus:

• The baby Moses hidden in a basket to save his life from a murderous king — pointing to the baby Jesus hidden in Egypt to save his life from a murderous king
• Moses leaving the comfort and privilege of Pharaoh’s palace to identify with his suffering people — pointing to Jesus leaving the glory of heaven to enter into the suffering of humanity
• Moses the deliverer who brought his people out of slavery through the blood of the Passover lamb — pointing to Jesus the Lamb of God whose blood delivers his people from the slavery of sin
• Moses leading his people through the waters of the Red Sea to safety — pointing to baptism and the new life that comes through dying and rising with Christ
• Moses the mediator who stood between God and his sinful people and interceded for them — pointing to Jesus the one mediator between God and humanity who intercedes for his people forever
• Moses giving God’s people the bread from heaven in the wilderness — pointing to Jesus who declared himself to be the true bread from heaven that gives eternal life

Each connection is presented with the warmth, clarity, and child-friendly accessibility that Alison Mitchell brings to everything she writes — making deep biblical truth genuinely available to the youngest readers.

What This Book Will Help Your Child Do

• Continue developing the skill of reading the Old Testament as a story that points to Jesus — building on what they began in the first Jesus Moments book
• Discover the remarkable and specific ways in which Moses’ life and ministry foreshadow the person and work of Jesus Christ
• Understand more clearly the relationship between the Old and New Testaments — that the Old was always preparing for and pointing to the New
• Engage actively and imaginatively with the Bible through the symbol-spotting interactive feature that makes every reading experience an adventure
• Build the biblical literacy and theological framework that will shape their entire lifetime of Scripture reading
• Develop a growing love for the whole Bible — Old Testament and New Testament together — as the one great story of God’s rescue of his people through Jesus

Who Should Use This Book?

Jesus Moments: Moses is ideal for:

• Parents of children aged 4 to 7 who want to help their children develop the skill of reading the Bible as one unified story about Jesus from the earliest years
• Families who have already read Jesus Moments: David and want to continue the series with their children
• Grandparents looking for a meaningful, gospel-centred gift that builds on and deepens a grandchild’s understanding of how the Old Testament connects to Jesus
• Home-educating families wanting a high-quality Bible storybook for their curriculum that combines genuine narrative engagement with deep theological faithfulness
• Sunday school teachers and children’s ministry workers wanting a resource that helps young children understand the typological connections between Moses and Jesus
• Churches wanting to resource families with beautiful, accessible, gospel-centred Bible storybooks for use at home
• Any family in India wanting to give their young children a rich, illustrated introduction to the story of Moses and its profound connections to the story of Jesus

About the Author

Alison Mitchell is an award-winning children’s author whose books have introduced thousands of children to the Bible in ways that are both genuinely engaging and deeply theologically faithful. She is the celebrated author of Jesus and the Lions’ Den and The One O’Clock Miracle — both widely praised for their quality and their gospel-centred approach to children’s Bible storytelling.

In the Jesus Moments series, Mitchell brings her distinctive gifts of warm, accessible, child-friendly writing and careful biblical thinking to the specific challenge of helping the youngest readers discover how the Old Testament points to Jesus — producing books that are as enjoyable to read as they are theologically significant.

About the Jesus Moments Series

Jesus Moments: Moses is the second book in the Jesus Moments series — a growing collection of beautifully illustrated Old Testament storybooks that look at how key Old Testament characters and events point to Jesus. The series is built on the conviction that children aged 4 to 7 are never too young to begin seeing the connections between the Testaments — and that the earlier they develop this skill, the richer and more faithful their engagement with Scripture will be for the rest of their lives.

Books in the Jesus Moments series available at forthetruth.in:

• Jesus Moments: David — Book One
• Jesus Moments: Moses — Book Two

The Story Moses Was Always Telling

When Jesus walked with two disciples on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection, he did something extraordinary. Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

He showed them that Moses was never just about Moses. That every burning bush, every Passover lamb, every crossing of the sea, every piece of bread from heaven — all of it was telling a story about him.

Jesus Moments: Moses gives the youngest children in your family or church their first glimpse of that same discovery — the discovery that made the disciples’ hearts burn within them on the road to Emmaus, and that has the power to transform the way your child reads the Bible for the rest of their life.