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Exodus 3
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
Priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert,
and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
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Kept the flock = Acts 7:30 And when forty years
were expired, there appeared to him in the
wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in
a flame of fire in a bush.
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Jethro = Reuel = Exodus 2:18 And when they came
to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that
ye are come so soon to day?
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Midian = A descendant of Abraham, by Keturah.
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Moses was called in this land (Arabia); Mahomet
also arose there.
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Backside = Would be the West side, very fertile.
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First mention of Desert of Sinai is in
connection with feeding a flock!
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Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God hath given me the
tongue of the learned, that I should know how to
speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine
ear to hear as the learned.
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There "the wisdom of Egypt "had to be unlearned
and God made known
2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
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The angel of the Lord appeared
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Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
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Fire = to cleanse out all evil
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Fire = Holy Spirit to warm your heart
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Deut 4:24 For the Lord thy God is a
consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25 When thou shalt beget children, and
children's children, and ye shall have remained
long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image, or the likeness of any
thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the
Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush
is not burnt.
4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of
the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
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God called = Only here in Exodus.
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Holy = Separated, or set apart "for God".
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It is rendered "consecrated", "dedicated",
"hallowed", "holiness", "saint", and
"sanctuary", which are distinguished in the
notes under their respective occurrences.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for the place whereon thou standest is Holy Ground.
6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look
upon God.
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I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob.
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And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to
look upon God.
7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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I have surely seen = Hebrew word "seeing I have
seen"
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All begins with God.
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All is of His grace.
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Note the five statements in verses: Exodus
3:7,8; and "My People"
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and
the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
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Deliver = Connect this with "serve"
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Good = Five-fold description of the land: good,
large, milk, honey, place of the nations.
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Canaanites = Six nations named
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and
I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou
mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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God comes to Moses and said, I will send Thee to
bring My children out of Egypt
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Moses said unto God, Who am I?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall
be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought
forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this
mountain.
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God said, I will be with thee = this shall be a
token unto thee, that I have sent thee
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me
unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto
them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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I AM THAT I AM
= I will be what I will be (or become)
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I AM = I will be
(speaking of Himself)
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is
my memorial unto all generations.
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The LORD in Hebrew = God
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He will be, spoken of by others = "which
is " = continuance in time present; "which was"
= continuance in time past; "which is to come" =
continuance for ever.
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Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in
Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him
which is, and which was, and which is to come;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his
throne;
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The Eternal = is a much better rendering
than Lord, which = Master and Owner.
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What He will be is left to be filled up
according to the needs of those with whom He is
in covenant
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He Who becometh Saviour, Redeemer, Deliverer,
Strengthener, Comforter, For ever = He changeth
not.
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Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine
ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return
unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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Israel's deeds reproved, sin and backsliding
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God said return to Me, Even from your fathers ye
are gone away from my statutes.
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God is saying it's your choice, If you return? I will return upon you.
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Israel's reply, Wherein shall we return?
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He is therefore Israel's God to-day, as then.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them,
The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done
to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the
land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come,
thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto
him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech
thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord
our God.
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Three days' journey into the wilderness, that we
may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty
hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I
will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it
shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in
her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put
them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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