The Walk - (Exodus) Tabernacle Study - Wk 2 - Chapter 16

We begin our study in Ch 16 tonight.

Notes:

The Walk – Exodus 16

 

·      Some Hebrew words:

o   Choq – task, rule, law

o   Mishpat – the ruling of a judge -> God’s Judgements

o   Nayha – test or prove -> to be put on trial

·      US government system:

o   Legislative – elective representatives make laws by majority rule

o   Judicial – court system determines if laws have been broken, and if laws fit within our Constitutional principles

o   Executive – enact trade, control military

o   Israel’s government is a theocracy and most closely resembles our Judicial branch

§  It’s Yehoveh’s laws, and He is the Judge.  The OT “laws” are therefore His mishpat.

§  These “laws” will come in the form of a conditional covenant [and aren’t what you think they are….]

·      Covenants do not “replace” other covenants.  All Covenants remain until they are entirely fulfilled.

·      Read Matthew 5:17-20

·      613 Commands, 1/4 deal with sacrifice, all point to one of the “10 Commandments”

o   Do you think the 10 Commandments still apply to Christians?

o   I believe as we continue in this study, your going to find that a lot you thought you knew about the law is incorrect – both in its nature and application

 

·      Journeyed to “Seen” [not sin]

o   About a month living on the food they brought out of Egypt

o   Just a thought from Ch 15….Israel needed about 10 million gallons of water per day to survive.

o   Pots of meat and full of bread -> disillusioned complaints, they were starving in Egypt

·      Rain lechem = “bread”

·      I will nayha = “put them on trial” regarding their obedience to Yehoveh’s misphat

·      Man hu = “what is it?”

·      Gathered an omer (1-2 quarts) per person

o   Each person would have exactly 1 omer.

§  Supernaturally, the amount was fixed.  If they gather more, or less, at the time of measurement they still only had an omer

§  Likewise, on the 6^th day they gathered 1 omer but at the time of measure it was 2 omer.

·      Yehoveh created the Sabbath with Cration and as part of His mishpat, therefore He does not violate it – even today.

·      Yehoveh asks, “how long will you refuse to observe my mishpat?”

·      More on the Sabbath in Ex 20 lesson.

·      At twilight ate meat

o   Natural means to supply supernatural purposes

o   To this day in the Sinai region, huge flocks of quail land exhausted and are scooped up by the native inhabitants

·      Kevod Yehoveh = “Glory of the Lord”

o   It’s the same cloud of fire.  God’s Glory is in the cloud.

o   The fulfillment of meat and bread proves that it is Yehoveh

o   9/10 times when you see Lord or God, it is Yehoveh

§  Interlinear concordance usually says Adonai.  This is a Jewish traditional replacement

§  Note: Jehovah is a German slur of Yehoveh

·      2 quarts of man-hu are eventually most likely put in the Ark of the Covenant for future generations to Believe.

o   Moses did not personally write all 5 Books of the Torah (teachings).  Others contributed

§  The Torah wasn’t Moses’s diary

o   The Torah is not written in perfect chronological order.  Some writings were added once in Cannan.