

This identification is further substantiated in v. 2 identifies the angel of the LORD as the LORD and indicates that there is a distinction between the angel of the LORD and the LORD. 1, we could read this verse in this fashion: “And the LORD, that is the angel of the LORD, said unto Satan, ‘The LORD rebuke you, Satan.’” Therefore, v. 2 reads like this: “ The LORD said to Satan, ‘ The LORD rebuke you, Satan!’” In light of the participants mentioned in v.

With this introduction to the vision we should note that the angel of the LORD is the focal point around which the following context revolves. In this verse Joshua is described as standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan is pictured as standing at the right hand of the angel of the LORD to resist him. in light of 1:9 the interpreting angel was apparently present to explain some of the details of these visions to Zechariah), the antecedent of “me” is Zechariah, the angel of the LORD, and Satan. the antecedent of “he” is the interpreting angel (he is referred to in 1:9, 14, 19 2:3 4:1, 3, 5 etc. 2 is clearly identified by Himself and accepted by Moses as the infinite God. Thus, this passage indicates that the angel of the LORD mentioned in v. As the conversation continues between these two, the Being in the bush announces His name, “I AM WHO I AM” (v. 6 the Being in the bush further identifies that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 4 that the LORD spoke to him from within the bush. 2 clearly states that the angel of the LORD appeared to him in the flames of the bush. While tending the flock of his father-in-law at Horeb, Moses saw that a burning bush was not being consumed by the fire. "The first passage is found in Exodus 3:1–14. 2 The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary - author Bob McCabeĮx 3:1-2 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
