In this portion, parashat, the covenant-keeping God, Hashem is going to reveal himself to Moses and the Israelites in a life-changing way. God had spoken to Moses and declared himself as the LORD, but He had not yet revealed himself as the LORD. This is how the portion opens, Yahweh is telling Moses how he had revealed himself to the patriarchs, and that they had not known him as His sacred name. The LORD had spoken but now he would be revealing by experience. Yahweh, our Father not only speaks to us but he also orchestrates opportunities for His nature to be revealed to us by our experience of relationship with Him.

The book we mentioned in this podcast, Sinai to Zion is by Joel Richardson.