Yahweh came down to earth, and spoke to Moses out of a burning bush in the desert: Moses was afraid to look at God's face.
Now that is quite understandable for such powerful divine presence shatters the layers of material and psychic illusion standing between one and God. The exchange and the conversation are neither filtered or hidden. To receive such a visit would be a great honor.
Verse 7: But the Lord said, "I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I well know what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey . . ."
Notice the colorful, famous phrases, now universally used and instantly understood by English speakers everywhere--words like slave driver and land flowing with milk and honey.
Yahweh knows his people are suffering and require delivery from the hands of slave drivers. Would that Yahweh would visit America today to restore the Constitution and American Way, a set of circumstances that could and will expand high civilized living all around the globe over time. But my sense of it is that these assignments of liberation are a do-it-yourself set of tasks for us to get done on our own, so we might as well roll up our sleeves and get it done. Mavellonialist philosophy is my contribution for getting this done.
May we invite all peoples to work hard, to boot strap to make profit and commerce rebound and generate wealth and plenty in all lands, so they flow with milk and honey.
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