So Elijah got up. He ate and drank. The food made Elijah strong enough to walk for 40 days and nights. He walked to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
Acts 7:30 - Easy To Read Version “After 40 years Moses was in the desert near Mount Sinai. An angel appeared to him in the flame of a burning bush. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when forty years had gone by, there appeared to him in the wilderness (desert) of Mount Sinai an angel, in the flame of a burning bramblebush. American Standard Version (1901) And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. Common English Bible “Forty years later, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush in the wilderness near Mount Sinai. Catholic Public Domain Version And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an Angel, in a flame of fire in a bush. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. |
So Elijah got up. He ate and drank. The food made Elijah strong enough to walk for 40 days and nights. He walked to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
You let our enemies walk on us.\par You dragged us through fire and water.\par But you brought us to a safe place.\par
I am the God of your ancestors. [16] I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
When you have troubles, I am with you. When you cross rivers, you will not be hurt. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not hurt you.
The people had many troubles,\par but the Lord was not against them.\par The Lord loved the people\par and felt sorry for them.\par So the Lord saved them.\par He sent his special angel to save them.\par He picked them up and carried them,\par and \{he will take care of them\} forever.\par
When they came out, the satraps {\cf2\super [36]} , prefects {\cf2\super [37]} , governors, and royal advisers crowded around them. They could see that the fire had not burned Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Their bodies were not burned at all. Their hair was not burned, their robes were not burned, and they didn’t even smell like they had been near fire.
The Lord All-Powerful says, “I am sending my messenger to prepare the way for me. Then suddenly, the Master you are looking for will come to his temple. {\cf2\super [16]} Yes, the messenger of the \{New\} Agreement that you want really is coming!
Surely you have read what God said about people rising from death. In the book where Moses wrote about the \{burning\} bush, {\cf2\super [163]} it says that God told Moses this: ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. {\cf2\super [164]} ’ {\cf2\super [165]}
Moses clearly showed that people are raised from death. When Moses wrote about the burning bush, {\cf2\super [320]} he said that the Lord is ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. {\cf2\super [321]} ’ {\cf2\super [322]}
“The number of Israelites {\cf2\super [130]} in Egypt grew. There were more and more of our people there. (The promise that God made to Abraham was soon to come true.)
When Moses saw this, he was amazed. He went near to look closer at it. Moses heard a voice; it was the Lord’s (God’s).
The Lord said, ‘I am the same God your ancestors had—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob {\cf2\super [133]} .’ {\cf2\super [134]} Moses began to shake with fear. He was afraid to look at the bush.
“This Moses was the same man the Israelites {\cf2\super [136]} said they did not want. They had said to him, ‘Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge? {\cf2\super [137]} No!’ Moses is the same man that God sent to be a ruler and savior. God sent Moses with the help of an angel. This was the angel Moses saw in the burning bush.
So Hagar is like Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is a picture of the earthly \{Jewish\} city of Jerusalem. This city is a slave, and all its people (the Jews) are slaves \{to the law\}.
Let the earth give its best to Joseph. Joseph was separated from his brothers. So may the Lord in the {burning} bush give his best to Joseph.
But the Lord brought you out of Egypt and made you his own special people. It was as if the Lord reached into a hot furnace for melting iron and pulled you out of that fire. And now you are his people!