Motivation Morsel - October 8, 2026
Exodus 4:24 At a lodging-place on the way, Adonai met Moshe and would have killed him, 25 had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, “What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!” 26 But then, G-d let Moshe be. She added, “A bloody bridegroom because of the circumcision!”
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The Spirit spoke to me about the purpose of marriage this morning. I was led to Exodus 4 of how a wife protected her husband from death. Zipporah performed the rite of circumcision and the Most High abandoned the plan to kill her husband, Moses. He had violated the Abrahamic covenant, yet Zipporah acted, and Moses’ life was spared (cf. Genesis 17:9-14). That is the true meaning of love to keep danger and harm from the one with whom you are in covenant. You want only the best for the other and will go to any length to protect your marriage and your mate. It may have pained her to do that to her son, but at the expense of losing her covering, her spouse, she was a helpmate and covered him.
I will say it again, Moses faced the judgment of death for neglecting the covenant sign, Zipporah’s emergency action of shedding blood was the ransom that restored his life, making him a husband won back through blood. Zipporah calls him a "bloody bridegroom" to signify that Moses was alive only because of this sacrificial act. She performed a harsh, bloody rite required by G-d, whom she did not know as intimately as her husband, yet to save her husband while resenting the violent demand, she acted quickly. Zipporah saved her husband’s life. Her touching Moses with the foreskin stopped his death. (Read the article below). The problem is she did it with anger and resentment and after this act you did not hear much more about her or the children. I am not passing judgment, and the Spirit moved me to look at what sacrificial love and marriage is to be in comparison and contrast to Zipporah’s act in Exodus 4.
In comparison to Zipporah, we can see the foreshadowing of future event where Yeshua would die and offer His blood and sprinkle it on the mercy seat in heaven to redeem us, His bride. The shedding of Yeshua's blood was the true and final ransom that saved us as believers from the penalty of sin and death, and provided eternal life with the Most High for all that are united with Him (cf. Hebrews 8-10; John 3:13-18, Ephesians 5).
Unlike Zipporah, Yeshua willingly without anger or regret died on the execution stake for His bride. He loved us unconditionally. All of His works were for us, His bride. And, Yeshua is coming back for His bride (cf. John 3:29; Ephesians 5:25–32; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Revelation 19:7–9; Revelation 21:2, 9–10).
Marriage is meant to be a beautiful act of sacrificial covenant and dying to self for the joining together as one until death do us part, and what G-d has put together let no man put asunder (Mark 10:6-9). We as believers have this covenantal relationship with the Messiah who has made the ultimate sacrifice for His bride, and will soon return for her. This Thursday witness to someone about our loving bridegroom who says in Revelation 22:17, “The Spirit and the Bride say, Come!" extending the invitation to anyone who is thirsty to take the water of life freely. We want everyone who wants a relationship with the Messiah to hear and obey so they too can have eternal life through Yeshua Our LORD. ❤️
Shalom Aleichem
Read this from Got Questions regarding Zipporah’s act.
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