“I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land
of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — a
land flowing with milk and honey” (v. 17). As we have seen, salvation is
not only from something but also to something. When God rescued his people
from slavery and captivity, he did not leave them in the wilderness but
brought them into the land of milk and honey. After the exit from Egypt, there
was the entry into Canaan. The God who spoke to Moses is the God who is
active in history — past, present, and future.
We have come to know this same God through Jesus Christ, who is
“the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8).
---Phil Ryken, in commentary, chapter WONDERS AND SIGNS / EXODUS 3:16 — 4:9
