The Sign of the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:1-10)

The burning bush invites us to stop and look — to turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.  This is a story that grabs our imaginations and makes it easily one of the most preached passages of Exodus.  Yet the significance of the sign of the burning bush is rarely unpacked.  It was a prophetic sign to build Moses’ faith and to be a prophetic sign, by definition, it must be prophetic of something.  Perhaps Moses associated the burning bush first with Egypt.  After all, the people of Israel were in the iron furnace (as Moses calls Egypt in Deuteronomy 4) and yet were not consumed by God.  This is a story that echoes down to the fiery furnace where the three friends were joined by the angel of the Lord and not a hair on their heads was singed.  Yet the significance of the burning bush does not stop there.  We will look at how it foreshadows the rest of Exodus as well as briefly exploring how it foreshadows the whole of Scripture and what its significance is then for us today.

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