We continue in our discussion of the Essence of God as revealed to Moses, and the significance of giving someone your name. God sends Moses on a Mission and Moses objects. God answers Moses' objections and provides the necessary ezer (in Aaron) grace and tools to carry out the mission God gives to Moses. How one of these signs is repeated in the book of Kings and Jesus repeats the sign of His own word in the Gospel of Mark and thus declaring that He is the God that spoke to Moses!

Jesus prays to His Father. Does this mean that He is a being less than the Father? However, Not only the Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom and St. Hilary, but Dr. Edward Sri agree, Jesus' prayer is conversation with His Father and they all confirm that Jesus is of the same divine substance as His Father, yet a different person. Jesus ends this prayer with the image of being yoked to Him, for the burden is light. We look back to the prophet Isaiah and the Book of Sirach to understand the meaning of Jesus' Prayer.

Moses the prince of Egypt becomes a shepherd and while tending the flock of his father-in-law, the Priest of Midian, he sees a burning bush. From this apparition of this unusual sight, Moses hears the Lord and for the first time in Scripture reveals His name. What is in a name? If it is God's name, a great deal. We learn what the Fathers drew from this and the significance of the name, I AM Who I AM.

We complete Jesus discussing John the Baptist, as Jesus brings out that John and Jesus' arrival are fulfilling the prophecy of Malachi. Jesus shifts to examining those that have seen his miraculous healings and heard His teachings and yet remain unrepentant. Jesus puts before him that in John they saw asceticism and in Jesus celebration, and yet didn't respond to either call to repentance. What is the fate of those that hear the Word of God, and more so have seen the supernatural wonders He has performed and yet remain in their hardness of heart.

We go into detail about Moses fleeing into Midian. Where is Midian, and why is that location called Midian? Why would, in God's providence have Moses wind up in Midian as opposed to somewhere else? Who is Reuel, the priest of Midian. Was he a priest of some polytheistic pagan religion or something else? God's thread of his holy ones meeting their wives at water wells continues with Moses as it had with Issac and Jacob.

How is it that John points out Jesus as the Lamb of God, the Bridegroom, and One whom he is unworthy to even untie His sandals and yet sends two of his disciples to ask Jesus if He is the One to Come, the Messiah promised to Israel? Who was John and why was he eating locust and wild honey and wearing camel hair clothing? Why was he at the Jordan River at the crossing near Jericho, north of the Dead Sea? Why did Jesus call him the greatest born of women? We turn to Biblical Scholars, Dr. Scott Hahn, Curtis Mitch, Dr. John Bergsma and of course the Fathers, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, and Gregory the Great. We see prophecies from Malachi, a prophet from 480 B.C. announcing John the Baptist's coming.

We here from St. Cyril of Alexandria who gives us a typological sense of the book of exodus and sees the actions of Moses, the taskmasters and Pharaoh as types of Christ, the demons and Satan respectively. St. Cyril goes beyond the historical setting and literal meaning of the text, but sees Exodus in the broader sense of the entirety of salvation history.

Exodus Chapter 2 introduces us to Moses. Who is Moses and where did he come from? We look deeper into the origins of Moses and his upbringing. We look to Josephus, Haydock's Biblical commentary and the Catholic Ignatius Study Bible by Dr. Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch.

Jesus begins laying down the hierarchy of the Church and the laity. We here from St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 107) the second successor from St. Peter as the Bishop of Antioch. Of course we quote St. Jerome and also Dr. Edward Sri and Curtis Mitch. We end the second discourse of Jesus and begin Chapter 11 and decipher why John the Baptist sends his disciples to ask Jesus if he is the One or should they look to another. Did John not know that Jesus was the Messiah? We turn to the prophet Isaiah and St. John Chrysostom and St. Jerome to understand.

Who was Moses? How was he saved despite the edict of Pharaoh to kill all the male children? The continuity of Exodus with Genesis is displayed in the ark of Noah and the ark which saved Moses. We look to Josephus, Acts of the Apostles, and Ian Shaw (author of "The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt") and the Catholic Study Bible by Ignatius Press. Using these sources, we can understand how the Hebrews (Abiru) went from Joseph who was exalted to being enslaved. Moses' rescue is seen in continuity with Noah and foreshadows Jesus.