This is part of a video series covering the entire Bible in 4 years, one chapter at a time. Start at the beginning with Genesis 1 (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wC2qD4RGOdo) and work through the playlist. Or go to https://www.peace.org.au/bible.html for more information.

In this video listen to Exodus 3 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Exodus 3 God is speaking again after what seems like silence for 145 years. He is saying the same things to Moses that he said to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Amazingly we see that God was working to answer the prayers of the Israelites long before they prayed. He started preparing Moses 80 years earlier, by putting him into the Egyptian palace to receive their education. Then when the Israelites cried out, God had a deliverer he was already working on.

Moses then doesn't think he is capable for the task. This is an astoundingly different position to that which he would have had as a prince of Egypt. God needed 40 years of desert humility to get the 40 years of Egyptian pride out of him. And he was indeed humble. Humility is being dependent on God. And we cannot serve God without depending on him.

Then God reveals his name for the first time in the Bible as “I AM.” It doesn’t seem like a satisfying name, but it reveals that God is the self-existent one. Without something self-existent nothing could exist. So we find out that God is this eternal all-knowing God.

In this chapter we learn God’s name, that God is self-existent, and that there is only 1 God. We also see God working to answer prayer, which is remarkable in itself, that God should consider people. But we also see him anticipating the prayer and working in advance. And we see that God is holy and deserves our reverence.

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