AUGUST 15, 2021 Exodus 20:5 “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.” The Hebrew word translated as “jealous” is kana and conveys the idea of being “envious to protect ownership” of something […]
AUGUST 14, 2021 Exodus 20:3-4 You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Let us consider that if we acknowledge the first command — that our God is sovereign over […]
AUGUST 12, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” No doubt by design, the commandments given to us from Mount Sinai are categorized into two sections. The first tablet contains man’s duties toward God -– the first five […]
AUGUST 11, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” In Hebrew, what we commonly refer to as the Ten Commandments is called the Ten Words. In fact, the Greek term Decalogue comes from the word deka, “ten,” and […]
AUGUST 10, 2021 Exodus 20:1-2 And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Unlike in Christianity, the first of the ten commandments in Judaism is “I am the LORD your God.” Thus, the first command is to believe in His eternal existence […]
AUGUST 8, 2021 Exodus 19:20 Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. It is interesting that the text tells us that the LORD descended upon the mountain and that Moses ascended. There is an interesting concept revealed […]
August 7, 2021 Exodus 19:19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. As I shared yesterday, the sound of the shofar was used to announce God’s arrival upon Mount Sinai and to herald the dawn of a new day in Israel’s history. […]
AUGUST 6, 2021 Exodus 19:19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. The appearance of the Almighty upon Sinai was announced by the sounding of the shofar. This is very interesting for several reasons. First of all, the shofar is sounded during […]
AUGUST 5, 2021 Exodus 19:16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. As I mentioned previously, the sight they beheld that […]
AUGUST 4, 2021 Exodus 19:16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. The scene that Israel awoke to on that […]
August 3, 2021 Exodus 19:12 “You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.’” As I noted yesterday, Mount Sinai was considered holy only because and only when the Presence of the […]
Aug 2, 2021 Exodus 19:12 “You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.’” What had been just a desert mountain comprised of earth and rock was transformed into a holy place […]
