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

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In a flame

In a bush

General references

Exodus 7:7

Bible References

When

“But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

An

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.

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

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

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

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,

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.

In all their affliction

He was afflicted,

And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And in his maturity he contended with God.

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will

clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the

messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.

In a flame

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

You made men ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,
Nor will the flame burn you.

The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their

trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

In a bush

“This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.

And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,
And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush.
Let it come to the head of Joseph,
And to the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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

General references

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.