 history of the hebrew people these were real effects that were really taking place and it was unique in the world and and that was one of the requests moses actually made of god when god said you're going to be the emancipator you have to go do all these things he said well you know what are you going to do to help me to show the people that there's something special going on here and that's that was the agreement all right you get the pillar of fire you get the cloud of glory