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Excerpted from: The Angel of GodVerse 2 here positively identifies the burning bush to be an appearance of the Angel of the Lord. The Angel of the Lord was in the bush, and verses 4 through 6 positively identify the Personality in the bush as God. Later in verse 14 the Angel of the Lord Himself names Himself as the "I Am." So we have Yahweh there.
Again, I do not have time to go through all the things that are happening in this passage, but quickly, the Angel of the Lord formally calls Moses here to serve Him. It is His formal giving of a commission. And in doing so, He emphasizes His own holiness and identifies Himself as God. He is giving him His credentials and giving him a taste of what He is like. He makes sure He identifies Himself as the God of the patriarchs, the fathers of Israel. He is Israel's personal God, in other words. And He commissions Moses as His instrument to lead Israel out of its bondage to the Egyptians.
Now, the first thing He does with the burning bush sighting is impress upon Moses that He, the Angel of the Lord, is extremely powerful and can do the impossible. I mean, that is what he says. "Look, this bush is burning and it's not being consumed. That's impossible. I've got to look more closely at this." So his mind is immediately steered to believing the impossible. That this God who is now appearing to him can do great and wonderful things.
God also immediately and pointedly draws Moses' attention to His holiness, that He is other, He is special, He is sacred. And by doing so, He kind of lets Moses know that his task, Moses' task, is also a holy task. This is something that the God of his fathers wanted him to do, to set the nation of Israel apart. God also tells him here that He had come down to deliver Israel. That is, He will not be steering things from way up in heaven. He is going to come down and personally supervise and intervene and be personally involved in the whole process of leading Israel out of Egypt and to the Promised Land. He is telling him, "I am going to be here. I will be with you." It is a momentous announcement delivered by God Himself as He moves events along in His plan.
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