LIFE SCRIPTS

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 3 Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.” 4 When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. 5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’ ” 6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.
Exodus 33:1‭-‬6 NIV

https://bible.com/bible/111/exo.33.1-6.NIV.

God still keeps His promises even after we rebel and sin against Him. He still commissioned Moses to lead the Israelites towards the promised land even after disobeying Him by worshipping an idol. But God this time decided to send an angel before them because they were a stiff necked people. It burnt them to the heart that God was not ‘proceeding’ with them towards the promised land. Sin separates us from God. It leaves us in a pitiful state…one where we are left to proceed but without His presence. But God is omnipresent? Yes. He could choose to take a ‘backseat’ in our lives if we keep on being stubborn in sin. Our stubbornness in sin puts us in a precarious position. Verse 2 speaks of an angel Whom God would send to drive out the inhabitants of Canaan. Theologically an old testament reference to an Angel seems to point towards Christ. Christ, the One also named Jesus would defeat sin on our behalf on the cross. His name, Jesus also written as Yehoshua or Yeshua means the Lord saves. Years later, Moses’s successor, Joshua or Yehoshua would lead the Israelites in driving of Canaanites from the promised land. Jesus is our great deliverer.