Echoes from the Burning Bush

1

Moses stood on holy ground

Fire from God descended down

Set the roadside bush on fire (bush on fire and ‘twas)

Then the Lord did there explain

Through His servant should remain

All the echoes from the bush on fire (the bush on fire)

CHORUS

Oh, the echoes from the bush (I can hear those lovely echoes from the burning bush)

How they thrill my soul (how they thrill my soul)

Oh, the echoes from the bush (I can hear those thrilling echoes from the burning bush)

Point me to the goal (point me to the goal)

I no more am doubting, but with joy I'm shouting

With no thought of shame to blush (no shame to blush)

This my song shall ever be, words that are so sweet to me

Echoes from the burning bush (the burning bush)

2

Oh the God of saints of old

Just the same so we are told

Spoke His message from the fire (yes, from the fire, so that)

Each and ev'ry tribe on earth

Could receive a great new birth

Through the echoes from the bush on fire (the bush on fire)

3

God sent down His only Son

Just to ransom everyone

By the echoes from the fire (from the fire, and the)

God of every earthly land

Would not pick nor choose a man

For His blood will save us from the fire (eternal fire)

Byron Faust and V.O. Summar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmI1F_RgGw

We learned this song from the Chuck Wagon Gang, singing from the Chuck Wagon Gang songbook. We didn't use that songbook in church, only at home. Today is the first time I've heard it recorded by any other group -- The Cathedrals, with the late great George Younce and Glenn Payne.

Exodus 3

New International Version

Moses and the Burning Bush

1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”