1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2There the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed! 3So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
“Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro” This was forty years later, after he fled from Egypt.....
Who is the Angel of the Lord?
“Not a created angel certainly, for he is called Jehovah, Exodus 3:4and has the most expressive attributes of the Godhead applied to him… Yet he is an angel, malach, a messenger, in whom was the name of God… And who is this but JESUS, the Leader, Redeemer, and Saviour of all mankind?” Clarke
“Though the bush burned with fire, it did not crackle or diminish, no leaf curled and no branch charred. It burned, but was not consumed.” (Meyer)
I use to live in the desert, technically a high desert and the vegetation was highly flammable. One particular Fourth of July I ignited a M-80 firecracker and shot it in the air with a wrist rocket and it landed in a cholla cactus then exploded. The cholla spontaneously ignited, it was highly flammable! I had to run a grab a fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire!
This isn’t a metaphor for the burning bush but It made me wonder about the fire of hell and the consumption of people....
“hell’s literal fire could emit no light, since hell would be literally dark. Its fire could not consume its literal fuel (persons!) since their torment is non-ending.”
The world seems to be racing towards hell, are you?
Blessings, David
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