Psalm 121:1-2 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 119:123 My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Father God made the promises.

Jesus Christ keeps those promises.

The Holy Spirit confirms our hope.

Exodus 3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

Observation without analysis is pointless.

The first observation is not where the bible uses the word observe. It happened earlier.

Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Why is that point within the observation that analysis is sought.

Who else observed this burning bush? The bible does not indicate that anyone except Moses saw this phenomenon. His encounter led him to God.

It changed Moses. He is a shepherd of goats that became a shepherd of Israel.

He is instructed to gather the elders of Israel because those elders believed in the God that would send them a deliverer. It was pointless to tell anyone else.

His observation matched their hope.

Psalm 39:7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Hope was all they had for over 400 years.

What do we hope for? How long has it been?