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The God Who Makes Himself Known: The Missionary Heart of the Book of Exodus is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Lord’s commitment to make Himself known throughout the nations is the overarching missionary theme of the Bible and the central theological concern of Exodus. Ross Blackburn counters scholarly tendencies to fragment the text over theological difficulties by contending that Exodus should be read as a unified whole, and that an appreciation of its missionary theme in its canonical context is...

and that Israel’s existence is unintelligible apart from her mission to the nations. In other words the following argument will seek to demonstrate that the existence and nature of Israel cannot be rightly understood apart from the Lord’s universal mission. Finally, a point about the language Exodus uses to express this missionary commitment. Often, mission in Exodus is expressed in terms of knowing the Lord or knowing his name, such as in the oftrepeated phrase ‘they shall know that I am the LORD’.
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