Obeying God’s Plan: God’s Call, God’s Anger...?

Dr. R. Todd Mangum 

Exodus 4:10-17

There are some remarkable parallels between how Jesus sounds in His interaction with Peter in Matthew 16:20-24 and Yahweh's interaction with Moses in Exodus 3:1-4:20.  Strikingly, Exodus 4:14 is the first place in the Bible in which it says, explicitly, "the LORD's anger burned." . . . What would incite Jesus' irritation with Peter? And what makes God so angry about Moses' questions in Exodus 3-4?  How did Moses move from "legitimate questions" God is willing to engage to questions that barely conceal reluctance or resistance?  And when and where and how might you and I be in danger of such an anger-of-God inciting misstep in our walk and talk with God?