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 […]
DECEMBER 14, 2021 Exodus 32:31-32 Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” When Moses said, “Blot me out of Your book,” what […]
DECEMBER 13, 2021 Exodus 32:31-32 Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” Once again, we get a glimpse into the man Moses […]
DECEMBER 12, 2021 Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’” As we discussed in […]
DECEMBER 10, 2021 Exodus 32:26 Then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. In the previous devotion, we addressed the need for boundaries and the role of God’s people in regard to those boundaries that the Almighty […]
DECEMBER 9, 2021 Exodus 32:21, 25 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?” … Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies). Notice the Bible is clear that it was Aaron who had not restrained the people […]
DECEMBER 8, 2021 Exodus 32:20 Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it. As we said in yesterday’s devotion, there are always consequences when someone decides to break the terms of a covenant. In Bible speak, […]
DECEMBER 7, 2021 Exodus 32:19 So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. Within just a few verses we that Moses, quick to stand […]