A Job Interview
With this scene is revolution concieved:
birthing one nation and crippling another.
Moses fears he’ll never be believed
God’s unphased answer: “take-a-long your brother.”
W A N T E D:
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Now, Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, who was the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush. Yet the bush was not consumed.
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The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he fled from it.
Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.”
So Moses reached out and picked up the snake by the tail, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
“This,” said the LORD, “is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob–has appeared to you.
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And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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But then a man who was raised in Pharoah’s court from infancy said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
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Moses thought quickly and said, what if I tell the Israelites that the God of their fathers has sent me, and they say, “Oh yeah? Well, what’s his name?” What should I tell them?
God said to Moses, “I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “
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And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you [a] will worship God on this mountain*.
SYNOPSIS:
CANDIDATE: “Who am I…?”
THE LORD: “I will be with you.”
CANDIDATE: “Who are you?”
THE LORD “I am who I am. Tell them I AM sent you.”
* Horeb, a.k.a. “The Waste.”