Exodus 23:14-33 “The Accompanying Angel”

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Daryl Zachman

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“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.”

Exodus 23:20 (NKJV)

Have you ever seen an angel? I can’t say that I have (although my wife likes it when I call her “angel”). The Bible tells us that angels are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation (Hebrews 1:14). As the children of Israel were in the wilderness, God sent a special Angel to accompany them on their journey until they reached the Promised Land.

Think of all the challenges they would face–enemy troops, lack of food and water, locating grazing land for their livestock, sanitation, and the continual murmuring and complaining of 2 to 3 million people! How they needed God’s help through all this! This Angel of the LORD would keep them in the way God prepared for them. Since the LORD’s name of Yahweh was in Him, we believe that He was Jesus Christ in what theologians call a theophany. The people needed to fear Him and obey Him. But if they would do this, then the Angel would deal with their enemies and bring them safely into the land of milk and honey.

Today God has also made a way for us. He has prepared works beforehand that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). Jesus keeps us in this way by His Spirit who dwells in us. We must believe in Him, fear Him, and submit to His leadership with childlike humility. Then we can be fully confident that He is guiding our steps in His way.

We don’t always understand our way. Many times, we can’t make sense of what is happening. But if we know that we have an accompanying Angel, then we can be at peace and not be afraid. He will guide us safely through all of life’s challenges and onward to our eternal destination!

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  1. Immanuel Verbondskind Avatar
    Immanuel Verbondskind

    Theophany is clearly one of the many human misleadings to bring people away from the Elohim Hashem Jehovah and to have them worshipping a Trinity.

    An angel is a spirit being and sent one from God., like Jesus is also a sent one, but did not exist until he was born some two thousand years ago. Therefore it never could be Jesus bringing a message to Moshe.

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    1. Daryl Zachman Avatar
      Daryl Zachman

      I agree that Jesus was certainly a sent one, but I also believe He was with the Father in the beginning before the world was formed according to John 1:1. But even if you do not accept the New Testament as the inspired Word of God, then how do you explain Isaiah 9:6-7?

      “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” (Isaiah 9:6–7, NKJV)

      How can a Child be born who will sit on the throne of David who is also called Mighty God and Everlasting Father unless He is the Son of God and in very nature deity Himself?

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      1. Immanuel Verbondskind Avatar
        Immanuel Verbondskind

        When looking at John 1:1 it nowhere says Jesus was with God, but tells us the Word or the Saying of God was with Him, referring to the words spoken by God in Gan Eden. There, long before Abraham was born Jehovah promised He would send a solution against the curse of death, that being His begotten son born some 2 millennia ago.

        ‘God’ means important or mighty person, and as such there are many people called god in the world today as well as in the past, but they are not the Most High Lord of lords.

        Jesus as son of God can come on the throne, the same as Pharao, Baal, Beelzebub a.o. are called god in the Bible, taking up his high position of king without being in nature the Divine Creator of heaven and earth.

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