DECEMBER 27, 2021 Exodus 34:6-7 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Think […]
DECEMBER 25, 2021 Exodus 34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. Let us consider the fact that the original tablets of stone — those that were broken — were cut from a mountain without hands. That […]
DECEMBER 24, 2021 Exodus 34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. Because the original stones were broken by Moses, he was instructed to hew the second pair of tablets from stone himself. It is these tablets […]
DECEMBER 23, 2021 Exodus 33:21-23 And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, […]
DECEMBER 22, 2021 Exodus 33:21-23 And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, […]
DECEMBER 19, 2021 Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. Imagine being told that you are going to lead millions of people through a desert […]
DECEMBER 21, 2021 Exodus 33:20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” As we discussed yesterday, no human has been permitted to see the face of God for to do so would mean death. If we can comprehend and embrace the fact that flesh cannot “glory in […]
DECEMBER 20, 2021 Exodus 33:18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Moses understood that it was the Presence of the Holy One who distinguishes His people from all the other nations. When the people gave into the sin of the Golden Calf and God removed His Presence from them, they were essentially nondescript in […]
DECEMBER 18, 2021 Exodus 33:11 So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. One of the reasons that Judaism places so much stock in the first five books of the Bible — the Torah — is because of this statement in the Scripture. Prophets were moved upon by the Spirit […]
DECEMBER 17, 2021 Exodus 33:7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. After hearing that God’s Presence was being remove from the people, the children of […]
DECEMBER 16, 2021 Exodus 33:1-3 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out […]
DECEMBER 15, 2021 Exodus 32:34 Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. After such a horrendous upheaval among God’s people — the rebellion, the aftermath of their sin and the drama of Moses’ intercession — God tells Moses to get back on track […]
