INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

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(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

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Introduction/Start of study

Exodus Chapter 3: MOSES, MEET THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, THE GREAT I AM

Type of ProphetType of Christ (Christ)
AaronMoses
John the Baptist (Elijah to come) Jesus the REAL Christ
False prophet the anti-Christ

(Deuteronomy 4:20 [KJV])
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

(Daniel 3:15 [KJV])
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

This chapter teaches us that God told Moses to tell Israel "God has seen, God has heard, God has arrived, God the LORD is coming down to save them from the world (represented by Pharaoh, Egypt and the Egyptians), to bring them to their own land, flowing with milk and honey, which here at this point is merely future under Joshua

(Exodus 3:1 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 2:18 [KJV])
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

HOREB: THE LOCATION OF MT. SINAI

(1 Corinthians 10:4 [KJV])
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

(Psalms 78:15 [KJV])
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

(Numbers 20:11-12 [KJV])
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

(Hebrews 6:6 [KJV])
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

  • In other words, it is where we get a good glimpse in the Old Testament of our life in the New Testament, getting saved, serving God, not by works, but by grace through faith alone (Ephesians 2:8-9), not smiting the Rock more than once, only speaking to Him in prayer after
  • Horeb is the place where Israel made their golden calf, the idol they made with their loot they got in Egypt, demanding Arron make one with their gold
  • Horeb is where God told Israel then told them to strip themselves of the same ornaments that they used to make the golden calf, the idol they made when Moses spent too long on the mount that they could not touch lest they die, because it represented this idolatry to them, and would have, could have given them an opportunity to make yet another golden calf, to have another idol, a false god, and so bring judgment upon themselves, which later they did, repeatedly, and went back into judgment, bondage to many kings, world leaders, who nearly annihilated them
  • Horeb is the place they basically started their walk with God to the promised land, to conquer their enemies
  • Horeb is the place where God made His covenant with the nation itself, through Moses
  • Horeb is the place where Israel made God so angry that He could have, would have utterly destroyed them, except His plans for them
  • Horeb is the place where Elijah went when Jezebel threatened to kill him after he slew all of the false prophets in the land, where God took care of him in order to use him, and where Elijah wanted, desired, wished to die

    • (Galatians 4:24-25 [KJV])
    Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

    (Exodus 17:6 [KJV])
    Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

    (Exodus 33:6 [KJV])
    And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

    (Deuteronomy 1:2 [KJV])
    (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

    (Deuteronomy 1:6 [KJV])
    The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

    (Deuteronomy 1:19 [KJV])
    And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

    (Deuteronomy 4:10 [KJV])
    Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

    (Deuteronomy 4:15 [KJV])
    Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

    (Deuteronomy 5:2 [KJV])
    The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

    (Deuteronomy 9:8 [KJV])
    Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

    (Deuteronomy 18:16 [KJV])
    According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

    (Deuteronomy 29:1 [KJV])
    These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

    (1 Kings 8:9 [KJV])
    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

    (1 Kings 19:8 [KJV])
    And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

    (2 Chronicles 5:10 [KJV])
    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

    (Psalms 106:19 [KJV])
    They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

    (Malachi 4:4 [KJV])
    Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

    (Exodus 3:2 [KJV])
    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.

    Isaiah 53:1-6 [KJV]
    Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

    GOD APPEARED TO THOSE HE USED FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE

    (Isaiah 6:1-4 [KJV])
    In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

    (Acts 9:3-6 [KJV])
    And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

    (Exodus 3:3 [KJV])
    And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

    THE BURNING BUSH, GOD THE CONSUMING FIRE

    (Deuteronomy 4:24 [KJV])
    For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

    (Deuteronomy 9:3 [KJV])
    Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

    (Hebrews 12:29 [KJV])
    For our God is a consuming fire.

    (Deuteronomy 33:16 [KJV])
    And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

    (Mark 12:26 [KJV])
    And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

    (Luke 6:44 [KJV])
    For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

    (Luke 20:37 [KJV])
    Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

    (Acts 7:30 [KJV])
    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.

    (Acts 7:35 [KJV])
    This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

    (Exodus 3:4 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:5 [KJV])
    And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

    DRAWING NIGH HITHER

    (Psalms 73:28 [KJV])
    But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

    (Hebrews 7:19 [KJV])
    For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

    (James 4:8 [KJV])
    Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    (Acts 7:33-34 [KJV])
    Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

    SHOES, IN SCRIPTURE

    From the verses below, we know that the following was said by God in His Word on shoes:

    (Exodus 12:11 [KJV])
    And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.

    (Deuteronomy 33:25 [KJV])
    Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

    (Joshua 9:5 [KJV])
    And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

    (Joshua 9:13 [KJV])
    And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

    (1 Kings 2:5 [KJV])
    Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

    (Song of Solomon 7:1 [KJV])
    How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

    (Isaiah 5:27 [KJV])
    None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

    (Ezekiel 24:17 [KJV])
    Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

    (Ezekiel 24:23 [KJV])
    And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

    (Amos 2:6 [KJV])
    Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

    (Amos 8:6 [KJV])
    That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

    (Exodus 3:6 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:7 [KJV])
    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; 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.

    (Exodus 3:9 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:10 [KJV])
    Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

    (Exodus 3:11 [KJV])
    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?

    (Exodus 3:12 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:13 [KJV])
    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?

    (Exodus 3:14 [KJV])
    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.

    JESUS: THE I AM

    1. I AM the Living Bread of Life, the true Manna from Heaven
    2. I AM the Light of the world
    3. I AM the Door of the sheep
    4. I AM the Good Shepherd
    5. I AM the Resurrection and the Life
    6. I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life
    7. I AM the true Vine

    (John 6:35 [KJV])
    And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

    (John 6:41 [KJV])
    The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

    (John 6:51 [KJV])
    I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

    (John 8:12 [KJV])
    Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

    (John 9:5 [KJV])
    As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

    (John 10:7 [KJV])
    Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

    (John 10:9 [KJV])
    I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

    (John 10:11 [KJV])
    I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

    (John 10:14 [KJV])
    I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

    (John 10:36 [KJV])
    Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

    (John 11:25 [KJV])
    Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

    (John 14:6 [KJV])
    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

    (John 15:1 [KJV])
    I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

    (John 15:5 [KJV])
    I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

    (Exodus 3:15 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:16 [KJV])
    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:

    (Exodus 3:17 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:18 [KJV])
    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.

    (Matthew 12:39-40 [KJV])
    But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

    (Exodus 3:19 [KJV])
    And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

    (Exodus 3:20 [KJV])
    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.

    (Exodus 3:21-22 [KJV])
    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: 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.

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