“To be given every other blessing is of no value if God is not with you. This was the first step towards spiritual restoration and revival in Israel. If they challenged God – pleading with Him for His presence, not only His blessings – it would show a genuine heart for God Himself. If they were satisfied with that arrangement, it would prove they only loved God’s blessings and not God Himself. God told them they could have the Promised Land, but He would not remain with them in a close, personal way. This was a challenge to Moses and the nation as a whole. We might say that God said, “I won’t stay so close to you, because I might judge you along the way – but go on and take the Promised Land.” I will not go up in your midst: God did say He would deny Israel His presence, or at least the near sense of His presence. The angel described here in Exodus 33:2 was simply an angelic being, not the LORD Himself.Ĭ. The Angel of His Presence describes the presence of God with His Israel in Exodus 23:20-23, the angel that had the name of God in Him. ![]() Isaiah 63:9 looks back at the Exodus and says: In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. He promised to be with them in some way ( I will send My Angel), and to fight for them in the Promised Land. And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite: After the sin of the golden calf, God did not deny Israel His protection. He said they could continue on to possess what He had promised to them and to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.ī. Depart and go up from here… to the land… to your descendants I will give it: After the sin of the golden calf, God did not deny the children of Israel the Promised Land. ![]() Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”Ī. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. (1-3) The people learn of God’s heart towards their sin.
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