Category: Exodus

After seeing God’s glory, Moses was able to renew the covenant relationship with God. In this second chance, God makes quite clear yet again the standard he requires. They are clearly told not to worship idols, and instead to structure their lives around the worship of God; including both in feasts and the Sabbath.

In the first nine verses of chapter 34, Moses encounters God’s glory in a way he never had before. We see the preparations for the encounter, read of the encounter itself, and Moses’ reaction. While we can only understand it second-hand, the encounter with God and his attributes is one we all experience every day…

God’s declaration that he would not go to the Promised Land with his people, because their sinful nature might result in their destruction, led to repentance from Israel. But this had not yet led to a restoration of God’s presence with them. Were they still really God’s people? So Moses entered the Tent of Meeting…

The Golden Calf incident resulted in a confrontation between God and the people over their grievous sin. It resulted in consequences for Israel. In this passage, we see it also resulted in God’s displeasure with Israel, as he commanded them to leave Sinai without his presence with them. Yet despite this, we see that God…

put sin to death, and acknowledge that sin has consequences. Thankfully, God has placed the worst of those consequences on Christ, not on us.

o far in Exodus 32 we have seen the Israelites create and worship and idol, and Moses intercede on their behalf before God up on Mount Sinai. In verses 15 to 24, Moses descends the mountain to confront Israel, and specifically Aaron, on their sinful idolatry. In this passage, we see a reminder to confront…

Something was rotten at Mount Sinai. After forty days of waiting for Moses to reappear, the hard hearts of Israel had led them into sin, denying the God who had brought them out of Egypt and fashioning their own golden calf as an idol. A deity of their own making and their own tastes, who…

Sin is impatience, disobedience, distrust, and corruption of the good. And we all do it. We might laugh at the absurdity of a people who literally saw God descend on Mount Sinai in fire and majesty and awe, then made a golden calf. But are we really any different, when we have seen God revealed…

week to rest and worship God? Not surprisingly, bombarded with the world’s desire for constant go-go-go, we are tempted to view a faithful interpretation of the Sabbath rest as a burden. 

God blesses many of us with artistic ability, as one means in our lives by which we can glorify God. In Exodus, God calls and equips two men to lead the construction efforts for his dwelling-place with Israel, for God’s glory. We too are called and equipped to offer the best we have, artistic or…