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The Message of Exodus: The Days of Our Pilgrimage is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the Lord promised the land of Canaan to Abram and his descendants (Genesis 15:7), every part of it was already occupied by other peoples. The long journey to possession of the Promised Land was prepared by God, yet it led through a path of adversity. We, the readers of the Old Testament, are left to wonder why. J. Alec Motyer explores the character of God through His covenant promises and...

(Gen. 22:1–14; Heb. 11:17–20); and Jacob discovered the folly of living by his wits when he should have been trusting the promises of God (cf. Gen. 27 with 25:23). It was by his identification with these three that the God who called Moses wanted to be known. They were such complex characters that much more could be said of each of them, but enough has been said to suggest the relevance of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to Moses and his needs. God had not changed from what he had been to the
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