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Exodus 3:16 | Pastor Jerry A. Burns
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: — Exodus 3:16
Source Coverage: Exodus 3:16-17
God instructs Moses to gather the elders of Israel and declare that the God of the fathers has visited His people and has seen what is being done to them. Again, the emphasis is on God’s faithfulness. He has not forgotten His people.
God promises to bring them out of affliction and into the promised land. Moses is to speak not on the basis of human optimism but on the certainty of divine promise.
Source Coverage: Exodus 3:16-17
Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make them willing in this day of power. As to Pharaoh, Moses is here told that petitions and persuasions, and humble complaints, would not prevail with him; nor a mighty hand stretched out in signs and wonders. But those will certainly be broken by the power of God's hand, who will not bow to the
power of his word. Pharaoh's people should furnish Israel with riches at their departure. In Pharaoh's tyranny and Israel's oppression, we see the miserable, abject state of sinners. However galling the yoke, they drudge on till the Lord sends redemption. With the invitations of the gospel, God sends the teaching of his Spirit. Thus are men made willing to seek and to strive for deliverance. Satan loses his power to hold them, they come forth with all they have and are, and apply all to the
glory of God and the service of his church.
God instructs Moses to gather the elders of Israel and declare that the God of the fathers has visited His people and has seen what is being done to them. Again, the emphasis is on God’s faithfulness. He has not forgotten His people.
God promises to bring them out of affliction and into the promised land. Moses is to speak not on the basis of human optimism but on the certainty of divine promise.
Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make them willing in this day of power. As to Pharaoh, Moses is here told that petitions and persuasions, and humble complaints, would not prevail with him; nor a mighty hand stretched out in signs and wonders. But those will certainly be broken by the power of God's hand, who will not bow to the
power of his word. Pharaoh's people should furnish Israel with riches at their departure. In Pharaoh's tyranny and Israel's oppression, we see the miserable, abject state of sinners. However galling the yoke, they drudge on till the Lord sends redemption. With the invitations of the gospel, God sends the teaching of his Spirit. Thus are men made willing to seek and to strive for deliverance. Satan loses his power to hold them, they come forth with all they have and are, and apply all to the
glory of God and the service of his church.