Genesis 32:29
32:29 Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
Genesis 48:15
48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said,
“May the God before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac walked –
the God who has been my shepherd
all my life long to this day,
Exodus 3:2-5
3:2 The angel of the
Lord appeared
to him in
a flame of fire from within a bush.
He looked
– and
the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!
3:3 So Moses thought,
“I will turn aside to see
this amazing
sight. Why does the bush not burn up?”
3:4 When the
Lord saw that
he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”
And Moses
said, “Here I am.”
3:5 God
said, “Do not approach any closer!
Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground.”
Isaiah 63:9
63:9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too.
The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them.
In his love and mercy he protected them;
he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
Malachi 3:1
3:1 “I am about to send my messenger,
who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord
you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger
of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
Acts 7:30-35
7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
7:31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,
7:32 ‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.
7:33 But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
7:34 I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
7:35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.