Verse 34: “Behold, I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their groanings. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.”

My people: God is reaffirming the Hebrews as His people, based upon a covenantal promise to the Patriarchs. The sins of Israel put them into exile, where they suffered for their sins, but it did not end that covenantal promise. God keeps covenant with the house of Israel.

Verse 35: “This Moses they rejected saying, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge?’ This one God has sent to be ruler and redeemer, by the hand of the angel that appeared to him at the bush.”

Judge… redeemer: Judge, oftentimes, is a word that brings to our mind condemnation. Redeemers are those who take us away from condemnation and restore us back to the purpose and will of God.

The fact that Moses (a typology of Messiah, see 7v37) is called a redeemer reveals to us that Messiah is going to be the one that brings about the full implication (outcome) of a redemptive experience.

Verse 36: “This one led them out; doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the desert – forty years.”

Forty years: The purpose of this testimony of wonders and signs, in these three places, was to change them. That they would be transformed from a wilderness experience into the experience of the Promised Land.

Verse 37: “This Moses spoke to the sons of Israel and said, ‘A prophet among you the L-rd your God will raise up out of your brethren, as me. Him you shall hear.”

This is a key messianic prophecy found in Deuteronomy 18v15. It shows us that Moses is a paradigm for Messiah. He gave the people a messianic experience, in order to prepare them for that true, and final, messianic experience.

Raise up: Speaking of resurrection. God delivered Messiah from death in order to bring about a Kingdom experience.

Out of your brethren: Messiah has to be Jewish.

As me: Messiah will be both Judge and Redeemer (See 7v35).

Him you shall hear: (The people did not listen to Moses). The understanding of this word is that it is a call to hear, in order to obey.

Note: Stephen is testifying, basing his faith, on the foundation of the Torah. In order for us to give testimony of Messiah, and in order for the people to rightly understand Messiah, we first need to understand the Torah. It is not in contradiction to the truth of Messiah. Laid out in the Torah, for us, is the ability to identify, understand, and recognize Messiah.

Stephen was laying out, before the Sanhedrin and the people, that the Torah wanted to reveal the prophet who is a redeemer, who comes from the house of Israel and who is the One that the people are called to obey. Stephen and the Apostles were both teaching, and revealing, that this Redeemer Messiah had come – Messiah Yeshua.