Moses, who was fostered by Pharaoh's daughter, felt self-reproach and contrition after he knew that he was of the Jews who were oppressed in Egypt by Pharaoh. The reason for making the rescue of the Jews from Egypt his mission was also the result of his self-reproach and agony.

Moses withdrew from Pharaoh's daughter's palace and went to live in the land of Midian. He married the daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian. One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law in the desert.

He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God.

God called to him from the middle of a blazing bush. He said "I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

“I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering.

So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt."

But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?"

God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain."

But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' they will ask me, ‘What is his name?' Then what should I tell them?"

God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you."

Moses may have thought that God was the Divine Mandate from Heaven which made him who he Was.

According to the Gospel of John chapter 4, Jesus told a Samaritan woman "God is spirit."(John4/24) This "spirit" may be translated to "tamashi" in Japanese. Japanese often said "Bushi no tamashii (the spirit of Bushi)" in old times.(Bushi: Japanese social class of the samurai warriors.)

The Japanese think "Bushi is Bushi because of the sprit. Without of the spirit Bushi is no more Bushi and all things in this world are no more themselves." Moses and Jesus too may have realized that God was this kind of spirit and thought "I Am Who I Am has sent me to this world"

Jesus also said "Man does not live on bread alone." If it is so, he thought what does man live on? In the Gospel of John chapter 4, Jesus answered "I have food to eat that you know nothing about. My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." (John4/32-34)

It seems that the essence of Jesus' teaching is to act on earth in accordance with the divine mandate from Heaven.

Ancient confucianists also said that "the divine mandate from Heaven is called the self, maintaining the self is called the way and practicing the way is called the religion" according to Zhongyong(doctrin of the Mean), one of four ancient Confucian texts known as the Four Books.

When Jesus taught the Israelites, including scholars of pharisees and Sadducees, nobody understood him.

Therefore it is believed that Jesus decided to become a mediate for people to access God, in other words, a lamb of God, and to be crucified.

In the Gospel of John chapter 6, Jesus preached as follows:"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me."

According to his expositions, to believe in God means to eat his flesh and drink his blood and to remain in him who was with God in the beginning and we and God become one through Jesus.

Jews, who escaped from Egypt, lost their spirits to move ahead in the desert because they did not have enough food and water and some were bitten by venomous snakes and died. Moses thought that they neither could go back to Egypt nor stay in the desert. However he thought if a few of them managed to reach Canaan, the promised land, the race of Jew could survive and he could complete his mission even though many might die because lack of food and water and bitten by snakes. But he needed something to encourage people to move ahead. So Moses put up a bronze snake on a pole and said "Anyone is bitten by a snake and looks at the bronze snake, he live. God told me. Believe it. Loop!"

Jesus told a man of Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council, his mission was to be lifted up just as the bronze snake. (Eko-an hensho-koji:2008/03/10)