The Photo-Drama of Creation - The Herald

At the Burning Bush
Moses showed himself great in every sense of the word.
As an infant, Moses was placed by faithful parents
where an Egyptian princess found him, amidst the
bulrushes of the Nile, and adopted him. Safe in the midst of
his enemies, he received an ample education in "all the learning
of the Egyptians." The honors of the Egyptian Court were
his, but he was too patriotic to enjoy them while his kinsmen
suffered severe persecutions. Intent upon helping his brethren,
he slew an Egyptian taskmaster. He was disappointed
that his brethren did not appreciate his endeavors to aid them,
but reported him as a traitor to Egypt.
He fled to Midian, and was gone forty years. Then God's
time having come, he was sent to deliver his people Israel; but
by now he was timid and feared his inability. By Divine
command, Aaron became his mouthpiece, and the message
was carried to Pharaoh that Israel must be let go. This commission
to Moses was given at the burning bush--a bush
which apparently was all aflame, yet not consumed. The
Lord's messenger used this means for communicating the
Divine message in an impressive manner, and to give him
courage and confidence in his mission.
The truthfulness of the narrative is confirmed by Jesus.
Certain Sadducees, denying the resurrection, sought to entrap
Him, inquiring whose wife a woman would be if during her
lifetime she had had seven husbands. Jesus in reply defended
the doctrine of the resurrection. He declared that when God
said to Moses, "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,"
this surely meant that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were to be
resurrected. The Sadducees denied the resurrection and all
future life. On the contrary, God's word at the mouth of the
angel proved that there is to be a resurrection of the dead.
God thus spoke of things that were not as though they already
were. "All live unto God" in the sense that in Christ He has
provided for the reawakening of all, "in due time."
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