I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
God's seeing and hearing are not passive: when He perceives our misery and listens to our mourning laid before Him, He is moved to mercy and acts. Moses must know that deliverance is God's own work, not his burden alone, and so proceed without doubt.
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After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
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Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
The doubled phrase marks God's exact knowledge and deep feeling for His people's affliction. He does not move locally, He fills all places, but acts by the effects of His grace and power to deliver them from bondage.
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