The rescue now begins. It is important to realise that on this day no one had any idea what God was going to do, or indeed that He was going to do anything. The plan started out in the wilderness, far away from Egypt. As far as Moses was concerned it was just another day, in fact he may well have given up all hope and was just plodding through life, but God intervened. There are, of course, parallels here to the coming of Christ, something which happened totally unexpectedly, and in an unexpected way.
God acted to get Moses' attention by appearing in a bush that had flames, but was not burning up (so "burning bush" is something of a misnomer). Moses went over to investigate, and then God spoke. God spoke by saying Moses name. God knows each one of us by name, and calls us by name.
Then God declares who He is. God often works this way. He lets us know that he knows and cares for us personally, then He reveals something of Himself to us.
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