Acts 7:30

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Summary

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.

When

Acts 7:17

Exodus 7:7

An

In a flame

In a bush

General references

Exodus 7:7

Bible References

When

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.

An

I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.

So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

The Angel of the Lord

found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

In all their suffering, He suffered,

and the Angel of His Presence saved them.
He redeemed them
because of His love and compassion;
He lifted them up and carried them
all the days of the past.

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,
and as an adult he wrestled with God.

“See, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Then the Lord you seek will suddenly come to His temple, the Messenger of the covenant you desire—see, He is coming,” says the Lord of Hosts.

In a flame

But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.

You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.

I will be with you
when you pass through the waters,
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not overwhelm you.
You will not be scorched
when you walk through the fire,
and the flame will not burn you.

When the satraps, prefects, governors, and the king’s advisers gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men: not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

In a bush

“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?

—this one God sent as a ruler and a redeemer by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

with the choice gifts of the land
and everything in it;
and with the favor of Him
who appeared in the burning bush.
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.

Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I

am the God of Abraham

and the God of Isaac

and the God of Jacob?

Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

General references

Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.