Having gone to these lengths to get his message into the hearts of people, God does not send out preachers only to abandon them. When God called Samuel, ‘the Lord was with Samuel as he grew up and let none of his words fall to the ground.… And Samuel’s word came to all Israel’ (1 Sam. 3:19–4:1a). When God gave words to Moses for the Israelites standing before Sinai, he said, ‘I am going to come to you in a dense cloud so that the people will hear me speaking with you and
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