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In her analysis of the encounter at Horeb, Ellen White identifies the presence within the burning bush not as the Holy Spirit, but as a manifestation of the Second Person of the Godhead. She explains that it was Christ Himself, acting as the Angel of the covenant, who appeared to Moses in the flame (PP 251.2). This appearance served as a revelation of the Deity, where the Infinite was enshrined within a lowly shrub so that a human being could behold the divine presence without being consumed (17MR 30.2). The burning bush is described as a specific "token of the divine presence" intended to communicate God's holiness and His purpose for Israel's deliverance. White emphasizes that the flame was a medium through which God revealed His will and imparted grace, similar to the function of the pillar of cloud and fire (17MR 30.2).

At the time of the encounter, Moses did not immediately recognize that the sight represented the direct presence of God until he was addressed by the divine voice (MH 436.2, 8T 284.2).

Furthermore, White draws a typological connection between the burning bush and the later incarnation of Christ. She suggests that just as the glory of God was veiled in a humble, unattractive shrub to accommodate the "weak vision of finite men," so Christ would eventually come in the "body of our humiliation" to reveal the Father to humanity (17MR 30.2). Thus, the symbol is consistently linked to the pre-incarnate Christ and the manifestation of the Father's glory rather than specifically to the Holy Spirit (PP 251.2, 17MR 30.2).

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