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Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. Then Moses trembled and durst not behold (did not want to look).

Act 7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou
standest is holy ground.

The ground was holy. This is very important to the message Stephen is giving. The religious
Jews hearing this sermon preached that the temple is holy. The place where Moses stood was
holy, but it was in Arabia, the land of cursing. Moses was not in Zion. Stephen is revealing that
a holy place exists anywhere God is.

7:33 holy, hagios (hag-ee-oss); Compare “Hagiographa” and “hagiography.” Sacred,
pure, blameless, consecrated, separated, properly revered, worthy of veneration,
Godlikeness, God’s innermost nature, set apart for God, reserved for God and His
service. Since nothing that is polluted could be hagios, purity becomes a big part of
hagios. A holy God calls for a holy people.

MOSES SENT TO DELIVER

Act 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard
their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Now is the time of Moses’ separation. God, not Moses and his fists, is going to deliver the
people.

Act 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same
did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in
the bush.

Forty years earlier, the Jews had asked Moses, “Who made you ruler?” Now he was returning
in God’s power to answer that question.

Act 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of
Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

The “He” who brought them out was the Lord Jesus Christ.

Act 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God
raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear (Deuteronomy 18: 15, 18).