are suffering, his faithfulness to earlier promises, his patience with a reluctant Moses, and his concern for the future well-being of the Israelites. Through Moses’s encounter with God at the burning bush we can understand different aspects of God’s nature. Without being fully comprehensive, we can learn the following about God from this passage. God takes the initiative to make himself known. God manifests his presence to Moses, disclosing something of his holy nature. Likewise,
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