seekeroftruth
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Exodus 6:2 God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord. 3#I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,[a] but by my name the Lord (b) I did not make myself fully known to them. 4#I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. 5#Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
This comes from blueletterbible.org.
The patriarchs knew the name Yahweh (it is used some 160 times in Genesis); but the great application of the name referred to God who kept and fulfilled the covenant: I have also established My covenant with them. The patriarchs were privileged to know the God who made the covenant, but for them the covenant was barely fulfilled. The patriarchs knew God as the Maker of the covenant. Moses and the generation of the Exodus would know God as the One who fulfilled the covenant.
As God Almighty: In addition, though the patriarchs knew God Almighty, they did not know Him as extensively and intimately as He would reveal Himself to Moses and his generation; they knew the power of God, but didn't have the same personal relationship and revelation Moses would come to know.
For us, God wants to be more than God Almighty - He wants us also to know Him as a personal, promise making and promise keeping God, whom we can trust in everything - by what name do you know Him?
As God Almighty: In addition, though the patriarchs knew God Almighty, they did not know Him as extensively and intimately as He would reveal Himself to Moses and his generation; they knew the power of God, but didn't have the same personal relationship and revelation Moses would come to know.
For us, God wants to be more than God Almighty - He wants us also to know Him as a personal, promise making and promise keeping God, whom we can trust in everything - by what name do you know Him?
Moses saw the side of God that would have him turn a staff into a serpent. Moses saw a side of God who deals with humans on a one on one.
Others had heard God make promises but Moses will see God put His words to work. Moses saw God do things that people simply cannot believe.
