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3,500 years ago a shepherd guided his flock to an area in the Sinai desert
near a multi-peaked mountain called Horeb, where he expected to find grass
for his animals. We don't know whether he found much food for his flock,
but history tells us that he found something else that was quite unusual—a
burning bush that didn't really burn. Little did the man know that he was
about to meet God. This shepherd—a man named Moses—decided
to investigate this strange sight. After all, it's not every day that one
comes across a burning bush that doesn't burn up (Exodus 3:3).
As Moses approached, God called to him from out of the bush and told him to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground (verses 4-5). The ground was holy because of the presence of God, who is holy. God then introduced Himself to Moses saying, "I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses' reaction was to immediately hide his face because he was afraid to look at this supernatural Being (verse 6).
God then began explaining to Moses what He wanted him to do—go back to Egypt, rescue the children of Israel from slavery and lead them to the land of Canaan where He was going to give them their own land. God also told him how to explain all this to the elders of Israel and the king of Egypt.
God then briefed Moses on the opposition he would face and promised to back him up with three miracles—changing his shepherd's rod into a snake and then back into a rod, making his hand leprous and then healthy again, and turning water into blood—to prove that He had indeed appeared to Moses and that what Moses was saying was true (Exodus 3:7 through 4:9).
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