Shadowland: Redemption: Week 3

Exodus 3

• 3:1 Jethro - "his excellency". Horeb was the mountain range, Sinai a peak. God met Moses here, and Elijah 1 Kings 19:8.
• 3:2 "bush" - as Acts 7 makes clear, this was a thorn bush, the symbol of the curse. The Angel of the Lord was Christ - who became cursed for us. As Christ indwelt the bush so that it burned with his glory, so he indwells us. As the bush was not consumed, so we are living sacrifices.
• 3:3 Moses thinks like a scientist.
• 3:4 "Moses! Moses!" - Genesis 22:11, "Here I am!" - הִנֵּֽנִי "hineni!" Isaiah 6:8
• 3:7 "seen the misery" - Reuben: Genesis 16:13, Genesis 29:32, "… heard them crying" - Simeon: Genesis 21:17, Genesis 29:33
• 3:13 40 years ago acting in the flesh, Moses was impetuous. Now that he is actually called, he sees the difficulties!
• 3:14 "I am" - הָיָה: "I became", "I am", "I will be"
• 3:18 "the elders of Israel will listen to you" - the first time Moses visited his brethren, they rejected him. As they groaned under their affliction for 40 years, they were ready to accept him the second time, and he led them out of Egypt.
  Christ was rejected by his brethren when he first visited them, and they have been persecuted ever since. The second time, they will say, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!" and he will deliver them with mighty wonders again! Matthew 23:39
• 3:21 "Egyptians favorably disposed" - apparently, the plight of the Israelites became something of a populist cause in Egypt! We'll see more of this later.
• 3:22 "plunder the Egyptians" - back wages