Exodus 3:2

An angel means a messenger. Malachi was commissioned by the Holy Ghost to explain what a messenger is: Malachi 3:1. Compare this with John 1:18. See a further account by our Lord himself; Luke 20:37, and again John 8:58. Reader! pause over this verse. Is not this an emblem of the Godhead dwelling in our nature? Is not God said to be a consuming fire? Hebrews 12:29. And can anything more strikingly represent our nature than that of a poor bramble bush? Romans 5:6. Was it not truly so when Jesus tabernacled among us! Philippians 2:5; John 1:14. And when the Lord Jesus in that nature bore divine wrath for his people, was it not like a bush burning with a mighty flame and yet unconsumed? Colossians 2:9; Isaiah 53:4; 2 Corinthians 5:21. And is not the church of the Lord Jesus in all ages, like a burning bush from the fire of persecution; and yet surviving amidst the flames from his presence and supports. John 16:33; Isaiah 43:1. Dearest Jesus! are not all the sweet and precious tokens of the Father's love, through the eternal Spirit, made to us by thee in our nature?