You don't learn about this at Vacation Bible School

Exodus 4:24-26 (NIV)

²⁴ At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. ²⁵ But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. ²⁶ So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)

For some reason, the writers of The Prince of Egypt "forgot" to put this part of Moses' story in the movie. Maybe they were afraid of the R rating that including that snippet would surely bring? Idk.

In all seriousness, I have never ever heard of that part of Moses' story. I'd heard about God's appearance in a burning bush, God's command that Moses go up to Egypt to bring the Israelites out of bondage, and Moses' journey up to Egypt, but I've definitely never heard of the events of Exodus 4:24-26 happening on Moses' journey to deliver the Israelites.

Does that passage make you feel uncomfortable? Honestly, I tried really hard to just pass right over it. Why? Because what it reveals about God does not coincide with what people want to hear about God. We want a God who is so "loving" that He is okay with our disobedience. Because of this, we have manufactured a god who obeys our personal rules of morality and then we have had the audacity to call Him Yahweh.

Yes, my God is loving. But even more than that, He is a God who honors His covenants. The whole reason God was concerned with delivering the Israelites from the afflictions in Egypt was because "God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob" (Exodus 2: 24). God promised Abraham that " for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions"(Genesis 15:13-14).

Why would God, because his son wasn't circumcised, seek to kill Moses? This goes back to another covenant God made with Abraham. "¹This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you"(Genesis 17:10-11).

When it comes to God's covenants, He definitely doesn't play any games. How awesome is that? Even though we are surrounded by people who are constantly breaking promises and letting us down, God never will.