Ex 19: 16-25: “And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.”
This brings to an end one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of the world. Twelve months before this Moses was forlorn and lonely fugitive wandering in the desert and looking after his father in law’s sheep. He stopped to look at an amazing sight, there was a bush that was burning but not turning to ash. He met the Lord and the Lord gave him a task to do. The Lord promised that He would meet Moses at the same place. Moses was no longer the forlorn and lonely fugitive, he was the leader of about two million people, a wealthy nation. There is no doubt about it, when the Lord decides to do something He does it in a spectacular way. Christianity is just a matter of small people doing small things in a small way, in combination with Almighty God doing almighty things in His Almighty way.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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