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Exodus Chapter 37 Deep-Dive: The Ark, Table, Lampstand, and Incense
08/31/2025
Exodus Chapter 37 Deep-Dive: The Ark, Table, Lampstand, and Incense
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 37 1 Bezalel THE HEAD CRAFTSMAN made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 2And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it. 3And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. 4And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold 5and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 6And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 7And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat, 8one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends. 9The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim. Making the Table 10 He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it. 12And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim. 13He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 14Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 15He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold. 16And he made the vessels of pure gold that were to be on the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour drink offerings. Making the Lampstand 17 He also made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work. Its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were of one piece with it. 18And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 19three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 20And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 21and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it. 22Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 23And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold. 24He made it and all its utensils out of a talent of pure gold. Making the Altar of Incense 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26He overlaid it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a molding of gold around it, 27and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it. 28And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 29 He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 36 Deep-Dive: The Tabernacle
08/31/2025
Exodus Chapter 36 Deep-Dive: The Tabernacle
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. 36:1“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” 2And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. 3And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, 4so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, 5and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do.” 6So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing, 7for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more. THIS WAS A VOLUNTARY FREE WILL OFFERING FROM THE PEOPLE AND ISRAEL RESPONDED GENEROUSLY 8 And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked. 9The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size. 10He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. 11He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set. 12He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another. 13And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole. 14He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. 15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size. 16He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. 18And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole. 19And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins. 20 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 21Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. 22Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. 23The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side. 24And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons. 25For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames 26and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame. 27For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames. 28He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners. 30There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases. 31He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, 32and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 33And he made the middle bar to run from end to end halfway up the frames. 34And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. 35 He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it. 36And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver. 37He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework, 38and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 35 Deep-Dive: Construction of the Tabernacle
08/31/2025
Exodus Chapter 35 Deep-Dive: Construction of the Tabernacle
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 35 EXODUS CH 35-40 IS A REPEAT OF WHAT’S ALREADY BEEN COVERED IN CH 25-31 (GOD’S INSTRUCTION) AND IT WILL DESCRIBE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE TIME IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY, ISRAEL’S OBEDIENCE AS THEY CONSTRUCT THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE OVER THE NEXT 6 - 9 MONTHS 1Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. 2Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. 3You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.” SO, NO HOUSEHOLD WORK … EVERYONE GETS THIS AS A DAY OF REST. Contributions for the Tabernacle 4Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. 5Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s contribution: 10 “Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: 11the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 12the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen; 13the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 14the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 15and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 16the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand; 17the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; 18the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords; 19the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.” 20 Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. (THEY GOT TO WORK … A COLLECTIVE EFFORT OFFERED TO GOD … EACH ONE USING HIS/HER SPECIAL SKILLS … SIMILAR TO SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE NT) 21 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. 23And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them. 24Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. 25And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 26All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair. 27And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 28and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord. Construction of the Tabernacle 30 Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence (TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES GOD HAS SET) with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, 32to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, 33in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. 34 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. 35He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer. 36:1“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 34 Deep-Dive: The New Stone Tablets
08/31/2025
Exodus Chapter 34 Deep-Dive: The New Stone Tablets
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 34 1The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. A REBUKE? MAYBE … BUT THE COVENANT LAW IS STILL THE PLAN … GOD IS OPEN TO REPENTANCE 2Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 3No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” MOSES IS GOING ALONE – AARON IS NOT GOING! AARON WAS DISOBEDIENT, MOSES WAS A MEDIATOR 4So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first (GOD HAD PRESENTED THE FIRST COPY, NOW MOSES MUST CUT THE BLANK TABLETS AND CARRY THEM UP THE MOUNTAIN). And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5The Lord descended in the cloud THE HOLY SPIRIT and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. THIS REMINDS US THAT YOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD IN VAIN – YAHWEH, I-AM, ANNOUNCES HIMSELF … HE PROCLAIMS, PROTECTS, PRESERVES, RESPECTS AND HONORS HIS OWN NAME. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7keeping steadfast love for thousands (GENERATIONS IS IMPLIED – A THOUSAND GENERATIONS WOULD BE, AT MINIMUM, 20,000 YEARS – WE CAN ONLY TRACK HUMAN HISTORY ABOUT 5,000 YEARS), forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” ALL OF THAT IS CONTAINED IN THE “NAME OF THE LORD” - MERCY, GRACE, SLOW TO ANGER, ABOUNDING IN STEADFAST LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS, FORGIVING INIQUITY AND TRANSGRESSION AND SIN, BUT, HOLDING ACCOUNTABLE THOSE WHO REFUSE TO REPENT … JUSTICE … THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD WHICH APPLY TO THE GOLDEN CALF SIN … HOW DO WE MOVE PAST THAT? FORGIVING SIN, YET ALSO, VISITING/ALLOWING THE CONSEQUENCES OF INIQUITY … NOT A GENERATIONAL CURSE – IT’S A GENERATIONAL CONSEQUENCE OF SIN, BUT, THAT EVENTUALLY ENDS … TO THE 3RD & 4TH GENERATIONS! (FROM THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY Ex 20:4-6) HOWEVER, MERCY & STEADFAST LOVE IS WHAT CONTINUES FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS Rom 3:21 APOSTLE PAUL WRITING TO THE ROMAN CHURCH, But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as a propitiation by his (JESUS’) blood (DEATH ON THE CROSS), to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins (THROUGH THE LEVITICAL SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM). 26It was to show his (YAHWEH’S) righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just (JUDGE) and the justifier (GOD IN THE FLESH WAS THE JUSTIFIER OF THE GUILTY … THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE) of the one who has faith in Jesus. Rom 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us) BACK TO MOSES ON MT SINAI WITH YAHWEH – AS YAHWEH IS FILTERING THE GLORY OF HIS PRESENCE BEFORE MOSES Ex 33:8And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance” 10And he YAHWEH said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. (RENEWING IT – ONLY – BECAUSE OF WHO I (YAHWEH) AM!) Before all your people (YAHWEH STILL DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM ISRAEL) I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in an nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. ALL THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM YOU ARE SHALL SEE THE WORKS OF THE LORD … THE NATIONS. 11“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. 13You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (PLURAL OF ASHERA – PORNOGRAPHIC FEMALE IDOLS, TEMPLE PROSTITUTES) 14(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they (THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND) whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. ISRAEL IS GOING INTO TEMPTATION – THE LAND INHABITED BY THESE IDOLATROUS, SINFUL PEOPLE GROUPS … HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM … DESTROY EVERYTHING!!! TWO CLASSIC EXAMPLES – SOLOMON LED ASTRAY BY HIS MANY WIVES OF OTHER NATIONS, AND, AHAB – HIS WIFE, JEZEBEL, WAS FROM SIDON AND WORSHIPPED BAAL. IF YOU’RE IN COVENANT WITH YAHWEH – YOU CAN’T BE IN COVENANT WITH ANYONE ELSE! REMEMBER … ISRAEL CONSISTED OF PEOPLE FROM MANY DIFFERENT GENETIC GROUPS WHO JOINED ISRAEL WHILE THEY WERE IN EGYPT, THE NATIONS THAT ARE GOING TO BE DESTROYED WHEN ISRAEL ENTERS THE PROMISED LAND EXIST IN THE SAME WAY … IT’S NOT A “GENETIC” THING, IT’S PEOPLES WHO ARE GROUPED BY CULTURE AND COMMITMENT TO A SPECIFIC FALSE GOD/IDOL WHO ARE INVOLVED IN VERY BAD BEHAVIOR, HOWEVER, ANYONE COULD JOIN ISRAEL AND BECOME PART OF THE NATION … CONSIDER CALEB THE KENIZZITE WHO BECAME ONE OF THE ELDERS OF JUDAH, OR RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE IN JERICHO WHO SAVED THE SPIES, OR RUTH, THE MOABITESS … THE LINE OF DAVID & CHRIST PASSED THROUGH BOTH OF THEM!! SO, WHEN GOD SAID THESE EVIL NATIONS NEED TO BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED HE’S TALKING ABOUT THEIR EVIL PRACTICES … BACK TO YAHWEH SPEAKING WITH MOSES IN EX CH 34: 17 “You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal. (YUP – A REMINDER – THE GOLDEN CALF) 18 “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (PASSOVER). Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 19All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 20The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed. Lk 2:22 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him JESUS up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) 24and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. 22You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. 23Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year. YAHWEH WILL PROTECT THE HOMESTEADS WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY APPEARING BEFORE THE LORD 25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. 26The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” PAGAN FERTILITY RITE THINK ABOUT IDOLATRY AS HEDGING YOUR BETS SPIRITUALLY … YES, I BELIEVE IN YAHWEH AND PARTICIPATE IN THE TORAH … BUT … WHAT IF THERE ARE OTHER GODS … ? SUPERSTITIONS 27And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28So he MOSES was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he (YAHWEH) wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments AKA THE 10 WORDS. THIS TIME AARON AND THE PEOPLE MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES WHILE MOSES WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH GOD FOR 40 DAYS … AND THE COVENANT BETWEEN YAHWEH AND ISRAEL IS RENEWED. The Shining Face of Moses 29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know (HE COULDN’T FEEL IT – DIDN’T NOTICE IT) that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. (AFTERGLOW OF THE RADIANCE OF GOD’S GLORY) 30Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 31But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 32Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 33And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34Whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 35the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him YAHWEH. CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF WILD WOLVES AND DOMESTICATED DOGS … THEY CAN INTER-BREED, THEY’RE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL GENETICALLY, BUT, THEY BEHAVE VERY DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE DOGS INTERACT WITH HUMANS … IT’S THE HUMAN INTERACTION WHICH DOMESTICATES THEM … AS THEY INTERACT WITH HUMANS THEY TAKE ON HUMAN TRAITS … ALTHOUGH THEY NEVER BECOME HUMAN. IT’S THE SAME THING WITH THOSE WHO INTERACT WITH GOD ON A REGULAR BASIS … AS WE DO THAT OUR CHARACTER IS CHANGED AND WE BECOME LIKE JESUS ... THE APOSTLE PAUL USES THIS SCENE FROM EXODUS WHEN WRITING TO THE CORINTHIONS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND LAW 2 Cor 3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STONE TABLETS OF THE LAW COMPARED TO THE HUMAN HEARTS OF BELIEVERS TRANSFORMED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD. 4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter (OF THE LAW) but of the Spirit. For the letter (LAW) kills (BRINGS TO REPENTANCE), but the Spirit gives life. 7Now if the ministry of death (THE LAW), carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation (THE LAW – WHICH BRINGS REPENTANCE), the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. 10Indeed, in this case, what once had glory (THE LAW) has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it (LIVES TRANSFORMED BY JESUS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT). 11For if what was being brought to an end came with glory (MOSES DESCENDING SINAI WITH THE TABLETS OF THE LAW), much more will what is permanent have glory. (LIVES TRANSFORMED THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS THROUGH THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT). 12Since we have such a hope (IN JESUS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT), we are very bold, 13not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end (EVENTUALLY THE GLOW ON MOSES’ FACE FADED). 14But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant (THE LAW), that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15Yes, to this day whenever Moses (THE LAW) is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit THE HOLY SPIRIT, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. THE SURPASSING GLORY OF CHRIST AND THE NEW COVENANT – APPLIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN EVERY BELIEVER’S LIFE. THE LAW BRINGS DEATH/REPENTANCE – THE SPIRIT BRINGS LIFE. THE LAW WAS A MINISTRY BY GOD – OF CONDEMNATION, SHOWING US OUR SIN, BRINGING EVERY BELIEVER TO THE POINT OF REPENTANCE. EVEN WHEN ISRAEL READS THE LAW TODAY – THEY FAIL TO SEE THAT IT HAS COME TO AN END AND THAT THERE IS A NEW COVENANT PROVIDED BY FAITH IN JESUS AND APPLIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. AN UNVEILING – BEHOLDING THE GLORY OF GOD – OUR EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED BY GOD AND WE ALL WITH UNVEILED FACES (NO LAW SEPARATING US FROM GOD) ARE BEING TRANSFORMED FROM ONE DEGREE OF GLORY TO ANOTHER INTO THE IMAGE OF JESUS … GROWING IN GRACE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. A LIFE TRANSFORMED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. ISRAEL RECOILED FROM THE HOLINESS OF GOD REFLECTED IN MOSES’ GLOWING FACE … EVEN THAT REFLECTION OF GOD’S HOLINESS WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM, HOWEVER, CHRISTIANS DON’T RECOIL – WE’RE DRAWN TO EACH OTHER AS WE SEE GOD WORK IN OUR LIVES. THE WORLD SEES THIS SAME GLORY AND THIS TIES TO WHAT PAUL SAID TO THE CORINTHIANS JUST BEFORE THIS PASSAGE. 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. THIS SCENE OF MOSES DESCENDING SINAI, WITH HIS FACE SHINING, AFTER SEEING GOD’S GLORY, IS THE CLIMAX OF THE EXODUS. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 34 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Exodus Chapter 33 Deep-Dive: Moses and the Glory of the Lord
08/31/2025
Exodus Chapter 33 Deep-Dive: Moses and the Glory of the Lord
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS CH 33 1The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’ CHANGE IN TONE FROM GOD … THE PEOPLE WHOM YOU (MOSES) HAVE BROUGHT UP … GOD’S STILL FURIOUS WITH THEM. 2 I will send an angel GENERIC ANGEL, A WARIOR & PROTECTOR, BUT – DIFFERENT FROM YAHWEH’S ANGEL – HIS PRESENCE … before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.” A QUICK REMINDER THAT GOD IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE … “LEST I CONSUME YOU ON THE WAY” REMINDER – MOSES WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN 40 DAYS BEFORE THE PEOPLE CREATED THE GOLDEN CALF. IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THAT YAHWEH CALLS THE LEADERS UP THE MOUNTAIN Ex 24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 11And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THAT YAHWEH SAYS TO MOSES Ex 23:20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. (NOW HE COULD FORGIVE YOUR SINS … BUT HE WON’T … BECAUSE YAHWEH’S “NAME” IS IN HIM … DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER ANGEL) 22“But if you carefully obey his voice THE ANGEL’S VOICE and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. 26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. THIS IS THE SPECIAL “ANGEL OF THE LORD” WHO SHARES AUTHORITY WITH YAHWEH … THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN A PHYSICAL FORM WHICH MAN CAN SEE AND STILL LIVE … JESUS MAKING AN APPEARANCE BACK TO CH 33:2 I WILL SEND AN ANGEL … BUT I WILL NOT GO UP AMONG YOU. MOSES NOTICES THIS DIFFERENT TONE FROM GOD AND HE PASSES THAT THOUGHT ON TO THE PEOPLE … 4When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 5For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know (DECIDE) what to do with you.’” 6Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward. IT’S TIME TO REPENT – IF GOD HAD ABANDONED HIS PEOPLE HE WOULD NOT HAVE SPOKEN TO THEM … JEWELRY WAS AN ANCIENT WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR WEALTH AND TO USE IT TO MAKE YOURSELF MORE ATTRACTIVE – THIS IS AN ACT OF HUMILITY & REPENTANCE The Tent of Meeting – SIDEBAR IN THE NARRATIVE – THIS IS MENTIONED TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT MOSES HAD A VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YAHWEH 7Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. THIS IS NOT THE TABERNACLE … THIS TENT IS WHAT MOSES WAS USING BEFORE SINAI AS A PLACE TO MEET WITH YAHWEH, AND WHAT HE WILL CONTINUE TO USE UNTIL THE TABERNACLE IS CONSTRUCTED … THIS SECTION HAS MOST LIKELY BEEN WRITTEN TO REMIND THE READER OF THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP MOSES HAD WITH YAHWEH BEFORE SINAI. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. THE TABERNACLE, ONCE IT’S BUILT, WILL BE THE CENTER OF THE CAMP 8Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. 9When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud (HOLY SPIRIT – THE SPIRIT/BREATH OF YAHWEH) would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses. 10And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. 11Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING SCENE, A PICTURE OF THE INTIMACY GOD WANTS WITH HIS PEOPLE. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. JOSHUA HAD A FRONT ROW VIEW OF MOSES’ RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD … GOD IS PREPARING JOSHUA TO BE MOSES’ SUCCESSOR. BACK TO MOSES INTERCEDING WITH YAHWEH Ex33:12Moses said to the Lord, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ IS MOSES ASKING … WHAT ANGEL WILL YOU SEND WITH ME? IF YOU’RE NOT GOING … WHO IS IT … WHAT’S GOING ON? 13Now therefore, if I (MOSES) have found favor in your (YAHWEH’S) sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” 14And he (GOD) said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (YAHWEH CHANGES HIS MIND) 15And he (MOSES) said to him (TO YAHWEH – PRESSING THE POINT) “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?” JUST A PLAIN OLD “ANGEL” GOING WITH THEM ISN’T ENOUGH … MOSES IS INSISTING THAT “YAHWEH” MUST GO WITH THEM … THE THING THAT SETS THEM APART IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD WITH THEM. 17And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for (BECAUSE) you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” (JOHN CH 10:14 I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AND I KNOW MY OWN, AND MY OWN KNOW ME) MOSES HAS INTERCEDED FOR THE PEOPLE AGAIN – AND YAHWEH HAS RESPONDED, YES, MY PRESENCE WILL GO WITH YOU. 18Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” MOSES IS WORSHIPING AND IS ASKING FOR SOMETHING VERY DANGEROUS … MOSES IS SAYING … SHOW ME MORE!! REMEMBER, JUST 40-60 DAYS BEFORE THIS (EX 24) MOSES AND 70 OF THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL HAD EATEN A MEAL WITH GOD ON MT SINAI!! 19And he (YAHWEH) said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy (SOVEREIGNTY). 20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face (YAHWEH’S GLORIOUS SPIRITUAL ESSENCE … HIS PRESENCE), for man shall not see me (MY PRESENCE) and live.” THIS IS A PROBLEM, IN VERSE 11 THEY WERE SPEAKING FACE TO FACE NOW GOD SAYS NO MAN CAN SEE ME AND LIVE ? … MOSES SPEAKS FACE TO FACE WITH YAHWEH’S ANGEL, JESUS, AND ALSO BETWEEN YAHWEH AND MOSES DIRECTLY … CAN’T SEE MY FACE AND LIVE … NINE VERSES APART, SO, THERE’S A PERSON YOU CAN SEE, AND LIVE, AND STILL BE TALKING DIRECTLY TO GOD … THE ANGEL / MESSENGER / SON / SPOKESPERSON / PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE … OF YAHWEH 21And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22and while my glory (MY PRESENCE) passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.” GOD APPEARED TO MOSES ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE THIS, AS AN ANGEL IN THE BURNING BUSH ON MT SINAI – THIS THEOPHANY, OR APPEARANCE OF GOD, IS DIFFERENT – THE APPEARANCE OF YAHWEH HIMSELF IN HIS GLORIOUS HEAVENLY PRESENCE WHICH NO MAN CAN SEE AND LIVE (ELIJAH 1 Ki 19:9-18, Abram Gen 15:17-18) TURN TO ISAIAH TO SEE THE ANGEL OF GOD’S PRESENCE CONFIRMED – GOD APPEARING IN HUMAN FORM SO MAN CAN SEE HIM AND LIVE, AND THE TRINITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT … Is 63:7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord (YAHWEH), the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love. 8For he said (AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS), “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And he became their Savior. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence (JESUS) saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them. 11Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit, 12who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name, 13who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble. 14Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name. JESUS – THE GLORY OF GOD IN PHYSICAL FORM Jn 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God (YAHWEH); the only God (JESUS), who is at the Father’s side (YAHWEH’S SIDE), he (JESUS) has made him (YAHWEH) known. Jn 5:46 JESUS SPEAKING … For if you (ISRAELITE PHARISEES) believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. ISRAEL HAS BEEN AN ABJECT FAILURE SINCE LEAVING EGYPT, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN … THE PEOPLE OF GOD RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF SPECTACULAR SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRACLES … DEMONSTRATE UNBELIEF AND REBELLION … HOWEVER, THE ISRAELITES WERE NO WORSE THAN ANYONE ELSE … THIS IS A PICTURE OF US - HUMANITY. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 33 – WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE BIBLE About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 32 Deep-Dive: The Golden Calf
08/11/2025
Exodus Chapter 32 Deep-Dive: The Golden Calf
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 32 The Golden Calf AS WE WORK THROUGH THE EXODUS IT’S CRITICAL TO KEEP IN MIND THAT MUCH LATER IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY, WHILE GOD IS CONDEMNING THE NATION TO EXILE IN BABYLON DUE TO THEIR CONTINUED IDOLATRY & REBELLION … HE REVEALS THROUGH HIS PROPHET IN BABYLON, EZEKIEL THE PRIEST, IN Ez 20:7-9 … THAT THE PEOPLE WERE IDOLIZING THE EGYPTIAN GODS WHILE THEY WERE INCREASING IN NUMBER IN EGYPT … GOD SAYS HE HAD TOLD THEM TO GIVE UP THEIR IDOLATRY BUT THEY NEVER DID, SO ON SOME LEVEL GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF RESCUING THEM FROM THE EGYPTIANS … EZEKIEL TELLS US THAT YAHWEH RESCUED THEM PRIMARILY TO PREVENT HIS NAME FROM BEING DEGRADED BEFORE THE NATIONS AND NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE DESERVING OF IT … WE’VE ALSO SEEN THAT ISRAEL HAS BEEN IN PARTIAL REBELLION SINCE PASSING THROUGH THE RED SEA EVEN THOUGH YAHWEH HAD DONE MIRACLES BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS BEFORE THEY ARRIVED AT SINAI … INCLUDING WATER FROM A ROCK AND DAILY MANNA ... IT’S BEEN 6-12 MONTHS SINCE MOSES FIRST SHOWED UP IN EGYPT AND DELIVERED YAHWEH’S MESSAGE TO ISRAEL. THROUGHOUT THE MIRACULOUS PLAGUES IN EGYPT, THE DIVIDING OF THE RED SEA, THE DEFEAT OF PHARAOH’S FORCES AND THE EARLY MIRACLES OF THE EXODUS GOD HAS BEEN FAITHFUL IN PROVIDING FOR ISRAEL AND DELIVERING THEM FROM THEIR ENEMIES. ON THE OTHER HAND, ISRAEL HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT UNFAITHFUL TO GOD, COMPLAINING, MURMURING, WANTING TO GO BACK TO EGYPT … SPIRITUAL KNUCKLEHEADS … UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AT SINAI AND GOD SPEAKS THE 10 COMMANDMENTS TO THEM FROM THE MOUNTAIN OUT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING … ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. THEY THEN ASK MOSES TO REPRESENT THEM AND SPEAK TO GOD FOR THEM, ALSO, JUST 40 DAYS BEFORE THIS THE SEVENTY ELDERS OF ISRAEL SHARED A MEAL WITH YAHWEH … IN PERSON! SO, MOSES HAS BEEN ON MT SINAI FOR 12 CHAPTERS (SINCE CH 24:18) … 40 DAYS … THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ALONE, WITH NOTHING TO DO, FOR 40 DAYS WITH NO MOSES, AND NO GOD … WITH AARON AND HUR IN CHARGE ... 1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD WERE USUALLY FATAL – MAYBE MOSES WAS NEVER COMING BACK?, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron THIS IS UNDERSTATED, THE HEBREW HERE IS VERY STRONG AND REPRESENTS A BORDERLINE RIOT – THEY ARE IN AARON’S FACE and said to him, “Up, make us gods (HEBREW IS ELOHIM – THE FORM IS PLURAL BUT ITS MEANING CAN BE SINGULAR OR PLURAL AND IS USUALLY TRANSLATED AS SINGULAR – GOD. THE PEOPLE WANT GODS THEY CAN SEE, THEY FEEL ABANDONED BY MOSES AND GOD … who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man (LACK OF INTIMACY, DISDAIN – MOSES WHO? … “THIS” MOSES!) who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” IT’S VERY INTERESTING THAT GOD CONTINUED TO PROVIDE DAILY MANNA DURING THIS TIME … WHERE DID THEY THINK THAT WAS COMING FROM? … UNBELIEVABLE … 2So Aaron said to them IN THE FACE OF A RIOT – THE PEOPLE ARE GANGING UP ON HIM, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears (THEY WERE WILLING TO GIVE UP PERSONAL WEALTH IN ORDER TO HAVE AN IDOL – WEALTH GAINED FROM THE EGYPTIANS. EARINGS AND JEWELRY WERE A METHOD OF TRANSPORTING WEALTH) and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” ELOHIM IS THE WORD FOR GOD HERE AND COULD HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED “GOD” SINGULAR … AARON IS MOST LIKELY SAYING THAT THIS GOLDEN BULL REPRESENTS YAHWEH … THIS IS FURTHER EXPLAINED ABOUT 700 YEARS LATER WHEN NEHEMIAH WAS WRITTEN AFTER THE BABYLONIAN EXILE … THIS PASSAGE WAS RECAPPING THE INCIDENT OF THE GOLDEN CALF AT THE FOOT OF SINAI: Nehemiah 9:18 Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ SINGULAR BOVINES – OXEN, BULLS, COWS … WERE COMMONLY USED TO REPRESENT DEITY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, AND BOVINE CULTS WERE COMMON IN ANCIENT EGYPT: APIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE SACRED BULLS. ISIS, QUEEN OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS, HAD COW’S HORNS ON HER HEAD, AND HATHOR HAD A BOVINE HEAD. THE CALF WAS ALSO A REPRESENTATION OF THE CANAANITE GOD EL, OR, BAAL. THROUGHOUT THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST THE BULL WAS A SYMBOL OF LORDSHIP, LEADERSHIP, STRENGTH, VITALITY AND FERTILITY … THEY WERE ALSO USED TO REPRESENT A PEDESTAL ON WHICH A GOD STOOD – ON THE BACK OF THE CALF … ABOVE HUMAN HEIGHT. REMEMBER, JUST 6-9 MONTHS BEFORE THIS THE PEOPLE WERE IN EGYPT – SURROUNDED BY AND PARTICIPATING IN PAGAN RELIGIONS. THERE WAS NO BIBLE AT THIS POINT AND EVERYONE HAD THEIR OWN “IDEAS” ABOUT GOD. WHEN MOSES DISAPPEARED FOR 40 DAYS, IT MADE SENSE THAT THESE SPIRITUAL KNUCKLEHEADS WOULD TRY TO CONJURE UP GOD BY MAKING AN IDOL IN A FORM THEY WERE FAMILIAR WITH … A CALF. ALTHOUGH THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN BY THE COMMANDMENT THEY HAD JUST RECEIVED FROM SINAI – NO GRAVEN IMAGE OR ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF ANYTHING IN HEAVEN. BACK TO EXODUS 32:4 … And they THE PEOPLE said, “These are your gods (OR “GOD” ACCORDING TO NEHEMAIH), O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord (YAHWEH).” AARON’S PROCLAMATION THAT THE GOLDEN CALF IS TIED DIRECTLY TO YAHWEH … HE’S TRYING TO COMPROMISE … HE ALSO PILES ON AND DECLARES A FEAST ON HIS OWN AUTHORITY … AND THE PEOPLE AGREED. 6And they THE PEOPLE rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. SLAUGHTERED MUCH OF THEIR LIVESTOCK IN A PAGAN RITUAL THAT WAS MEANINGLESS TO YAHWEH … And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play SEXUAL CONNOTATIONS RELATED TO “PLAY” … ORGIES WERE PART OF PAGAN WORSHIP … SEEKING THE BLESSING OF FERTILITY. LET’S STOP HERE AND PUT ON OUR NEW COVENANT DECODER GLASSES Paul’s take on this in the New Testament: 1 Cor 10:1For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 7Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. YAHWEH KILLED THEM !!! 9We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did PAUL IS SAYING TO THE CORINTHIANS “DON’T PUT JESUS TO THE TEST THE SAME WAY THE ISRAELITES DID … JESUS WAS THE ONE THE ISRAELITES DISOBEYED … REMEMBER THAT JESUS SAID “MOSES WROTE ABOUT ME” 9We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. GOD’S RETRIBUTION & WRATH 11Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 12Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. BACK TO THE GOLDEN CALF … IT’S LIKELY THAT THE PEOPLE HAD NOT TURNED AWAY FROM YAHWEH, BUT “ADDED TO HIM” WITH THE GOLDEN CALF: 1) EITHER TO HAVE YAHWEH STAND ON THE CALF AS A PEDESTAL, OR, 2) THAT THE CALF REPRESENTED THE LORDSHIP, LEADERSHIP, STRENGTH, VITALITY AND FERTILITY OF YAHWEH … MORE SIGNS THAT THEY WERE NOT PAYING ATTENTION WHEN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS WERE GIVEN AND WERE STILL SPIRITUAL KNUCKLEHEADS. JUST TWO MONTHS BEFORE THIS GOD HAD SPOKEN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE FROM MT SINAI: Ex 20:3 1ST COMMANDMENT “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 2ND COMMANDMENT “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. 5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. JUST 40 DAYS BEFORE THIS THE SEVENTY ELDERS OF ISRAEL SHARED A MEAL WITH YAHWEH … IN PERSON! Ex 24:9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 11And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THIS REBELLION BEGAN !?! BACK TO EX 32, MOSES SPEAKING WITH GOD ON MT SINAI: 7And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, THE LORD WANTS TO DISOWN HIS PEOPLE – HE’S DISGUSTED WITH THEM!! … have corrupted themselves. 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. 10 COMMANDMENTS GIVEN BY GOD SPEAKING DIRECTLY FROM SINAI … They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, (OR, ACCORDING TO NEHEMIAH, SINGULAR – THIS IS YOUR GOD, O ISRAEL) … who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” WHATEVER THEIR MOTIVES … GOD SINGULAR, GODS PLURAL, YAHWEH RIDING ON THE BACK OF THE GOLDEN CALF, THE GOLDEN CALF AN IMAGE OF YAHWEH, TRYING TO BRING YAHWEH BACK TO THEM, WORSHIPING OTHER GODS … WHATEVER THE PRACTICE, WHATEVER THE MOTIVES – THIS IS ILLEGITIMATE PAGAN WORSHIP … GOD REJECTS IT COMPLETELY AND IS INFURIATED. … 9And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, GOD IS PREPARING TO KILL THEM ALL – THE WRATH OF GOD !!! … in order that I may make a great nation of you.” THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT NOW OFFERED TO MOSES … 11But Moses implored the Lord his God INTERCEDES ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL – A PRIESTLY MEDIATOR, A PICTURE OF JESUS and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. MOSES IS SAYING “HOW WILL THE OTHER NATIONS COME TO KNOW YOU IF YOU ABANDON YOUR PEOPLE NOW?” 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’” MOSES REMINDS GOD THAT IT’S GOD’S REPUTATION THAT’S AT STAKE, ESPECIALLY BEFORE THE EGYPTIANS … GOD’S PLAN WAS TO USE ISRAEL TO COMMUNICATE WITH ALL MANKIND. 14And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people. MOSES WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A GREAT NATION HIMSELF, INSTEAD, HE INTERCEDES FOR THE PEOPLE AND GETS GOD TO CHANGE HIS MIND … SO, DOES GOD REALLY CHANGE HIS MIND? GOD IS THE SOVEREIGN CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS AND ULTIMATELY CONTROLS ALL THINGS, HOWEVER, THE BIBLE CLEARLY AND CERTAINLY SAYS HE DOES, IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS “CHANGE HIS MIND”, IN RESPONSE TO OUR PRAYER … 2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah (ONE OF THE FEW “GOOD” KINGS OF ISRAEL 2 KI CH 18-20, THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED LATE IN LIFE – AFTER HE HAD SEEN GOD WORK IN MANY MIRACULOUS WAYS) … became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’” 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, 3“Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him: 5“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord, 6and I will add fifteen years to your life. … BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR … THIS 15 YEAR EXTENSION OF HEZEKIAH’S LIFE ENDED UP BEING A BAD THING FOR ISRAEL AFTER HEZEKIAH SHOWED THE ENVOYS FROM BABYLON ALL OF THE TREASURES OF ISRAEL ... HEZEKIAH LATER HEARS FROM ISAIAH THAT BABYLON WILL SHORTLY DESTROY ISRAEL AND TAKE HEZEKIAH’S FAMILY CAPTIVE: 2 Ki 20:16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: 17Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. 18And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?” UGH – DID HEZEKIAH LOSE HIS REPUTATION WITH THAT STATEMENT? IF HE HAD DIED ACCORDING TO GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN HE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO HEAR THIS BAD NEWS, AND HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PART OF IT. HE WAS CERTAINLY SELF-CENTERED IN HIS REACTION. REMEMBER, NONE OF US ARE GETTING OUT OF THIS ALIVE – CONSIDER THAT A TRUE BELIEVER AND FOLLOWER OF JESUS MUST BE PREPARED FOR DEATH AT ANY MOMENT. WHAT A GIFT FROM GOD TO HEAR THAT THE ILLNESS YOU CURRENTLY HAVE WILL BE THE FINAL ONE – GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER, FOR YOU SHALL DIE. 2 Ki 21:1 Manasseh (SON OF HEZEKIAH AND ONE OF THE ABSOLUTELY WORST KINGS ISRAEL EVER HAD) was twelve years old when he began to reign, (IF HEZEKIAH HAD DIED ACCORDING TO GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN MANASSEH WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BORN!) and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. NOW THE LINE OF CHRIST PASSED THROUGH MANASSEH, SO, WAS IT GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN TO NOT HAVE MANASSEH BORN IF HEZEKIAH HAD DIED AS GOD ORIGINALLY PLANNED, OR DID GOD ACTUALLY CHANGE THE PLAN AFTER HE DECIDED TO GIVE HEZEKIAH 15 MORE YEARS? Deut 29:29“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Is 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.: BACK TO EX 32, AFTER GOD RELENTS OF DESTROYING THE NATION … 15Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. 16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.” 18But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”19And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, DRUNKEN REVELRY – THE COVENANT HAS ALREADY BEEN BROKEN ... Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. MOSES IS FURIOUS – AFTER INTERCEDING FOR THE PEOPLE AND TURNING AWAY GOD’S PLAN TO DESTROY THE NATION … MOSES EXPRESSES THAT SAME ANGER IN HIS OWN WRATH WITH THE PEOPLE … 20He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it. MOSES DESTROYS THE IDOL AND MAKES THE PEOPLE SUFFER FOR IT. 21And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” DID THEY TORTURE YOU? 22And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. 23For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 24So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.” AARON DISPLAYS THE WORST TYPE OF LEADERSHIP POSSIBLE … A VICTIM MENTALITY … IT’S NOT MY FAULT! 25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. A WAR CALL FROM MOSES – WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE!?! THIS IS THE REDEMPTION OF LEVI – LEVI AND SIMEON WERE THE BROTHERS OF DINAH … WHEN DINAH WAS RAPED AND ABDUCTED BY SCHECHEM THE BROTHERS DECEIVED AND KILLED THE MEN OF SHECHEM AND PLUNDERED THEIR CITY. THEIR FATHER, ISRAEL (JACOB), AT THE END OF HIS LIFE GAVE HIS FINAL PROPHETIC WORD ABOUT THEM Gen 49: 5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. 6Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen. 7Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. EX 32:27And he MOSES said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. 29And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.” THIS IS NOT THE LEVITES WERE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE … THEY HAD BEEN PARTICIPATING, BUT THEY NOW RESPOND TO MOSES’ CALL FOR REPENTANCE BIBLE BONES AND LIGAMENTS … Deut 13:1“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that...
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Exodus Chapter 31 Deep-Dive: The Sabbath
08/11/2025
Exodus Chapter 31 Deep-Dive: The Sabbath
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 31 Bezalel and Oholiab Ex 31:1The Lord said to Moses, 2“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 5in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. 6And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 7the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent, 8the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, 9and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, 10and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests, 11and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.” GOD ALONE CREATED, HOWEVER, GOD USES HUMAN AGENTS TO ACCOMPLISH HIS GOALS … GOD’S IMAGE BEARERS WERE GIVEN A TASK IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEY WERE CREATED: Gen 1:27 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” GOD COULD HAVE CREATED THE TABERNACLE AND ALL OF ITS CONTENTS AND GIVEN THEM TO ISRAEL, HOWEVER, HE CHOSE TO USE HUMAN BEINGS TO CREATE THEM, IN THIS CASE BEZALEL AND OHOLIAB ARE MENTIONED SPECIFICALLY. GOD IS GOING TO INHABIT THE TABERNACLE (CAMP OUT WITH HIS PEOPLE) AND THE PEOPLE WILL USE THE ITEMS CREATED TO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. BEZALEL WILL BE GUIDED DIRECTLY BY GOD, AND BEZALEL WILL BE GIVEN ABILITY, INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND CRAFTSMANSHIP … DIVINELY GIVEN. GOD EXPECTS HIS PEOPLE TO CREATE THESE INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL THINGS WITH CRAFTSMANSHIP GOD HAS DIVINELY GIVEN. THE OPPOSITE OF THIS DIVINE INSPIRATION IS FOUND IN ISAIAH THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY 44:9 All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. 10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? 11Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together. 12 The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint. 13The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. 15Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it. 16Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!” 17And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!” 18They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” THE SAME CRAFTSMANSHIP USED IN MAKING THE TABERNACLE IS ALSO USED TO MAKE IDOLS … BY MEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OR DISCERNMENT … WHO HAVE DELUDED HEARTS. IDOLATRY … HEDGING THEIR BETS … “MAYBE THERE ARE OTHER GODS THAN JUST YAHWEH … ?” SUPERSTITIOUS BACK TO EXODUS 31 MOST LIKELY THE FATHERS OF BEZALEL AND OHOLIAB ARE STILL ALIVE AT THIS POINT … INTERESTING THAT THEY’RE MENTIONED HERE. EVERYTHING SHOWN TO MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN IS LISTED HERE … MAKE THIS EXACTLY AS I’VE SHOWN YOU, AND I’VE GIVEN YOU THE ABILITY TO DO IT … NEVER, NEVER, NEVER USE THOSE SKILLS TO MAKE AN IDOL. WE ARE REGULATED BY THE WORD OF GOD … THERE IS NO SCRIPTURE ANYWHERE OR AT ANY TIME COMMANDING US TO BE CREATIVE IN OUR WORSHIP. BACK TO EXODUS CH 31 The Sabbath Ex 31:12And the Lord said to Moses, 13“You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. A SIGN THAT SETS YOU APART FROM THE OTHER NATIONS – STUNNING, GLARING! 14You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you (ISRAEL). Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. 16Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. 17It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” HOW IS IT THAT GOD NEEDS TO BE “REFRESHED?” A BETTER CONCEPT MIGHT BE THAT GOD WAS “SATISFIED” AND HE TOOK A DAY TO ENJOY HIS CREATION ... WHICH HE CALLED “GOOD.” THE SABBATH REMINDER IS GIVEN TO ISRAEL AS A THREAT … IF YOU DON’T DO THIS YOU WILL BE PUT TO DEATH. THE PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT IF YOUR CROPS NEEDED ATTENTION – IT HAD TO WAIT – THIS WAS A VERY BIG SHOW OF TRUST IN GOD IF YOU WERE A SUBSISTENCE FARMER. NOTE THAT JESUS “BROKE” THE SABBATH WHEN HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS PICKED HEADS OF GRAIN ON THE SABBATH, AND WHEN HE HEALED ON THE SABBATH … THEN HE REMINDED THEM THAT GOD IS LOOKING FOR MERCY INSTEAD OF SACRIFICE (HOSEA QUOTED), AND THEN JESUS CLAIMED TO BE LORD OF THE SABBATH – AND THE CHRISTIAN’S REST IS TRULY FOUND IN JESUS – THIS IS JESUS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL TO GOD. THE SABBATH MADE ISRAEL DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER NATION IN ANTIQUITY … NO OTHER CULTURE HAD ANYTHING LIKE THE SABBATH DAY OF REST. A MODERN DAY MIDDLE-CLASS READING OF THE SABBATH GUIDANCE INCLUDES A WEEKEND, SAT-SUN, AND THAT WAS UNHEARD OF UNTIL THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WHICH OCCURRED AROUND 150 YEARS AGO … SHIFT WORK IN THE INDUSTRIAL PLANTS LED TO ITS CREATION. UP UNTIL THE EARLY 1960’s THERE WERE “BLUE” LAWS THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM, WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THAT FORBADE COMMERCE FROM BEING DONE ON SUNDAYS … STORES & THEATERS WERE CLOSED BY LAW … UNTIL THE 1980’s … ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE DEGRADATION OF OUR POST-CHRISTIAN CULTURE. A CROOKED AND TWISTED GENERATION. ARE CHRISTIANS REQUIRED TO KEEP THE SABBATH? WELL, IS THE CHURCH ISRAEL? NO … JESUS CHANGED EVERYTHING WITH THE NEW COVENANT. HERE ARE 3 POSSIBLE POSITIONS OF THE CHURCH: 1) THE CHURCH IS REQUIRED TO KEEP THE SABBATH AS GIVEN TO ISRAEL (7TH DAY ADVENTISTS, AND SOME 7TH DAY BAPTISTS … A MINORITY POSITION), 2) CHRISTIANS HAVE SHIFTED THE SABBATH REQUIREMENTS FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY (PURITANS), ANOTHER MINORITY POSITION IN MODERN CHISTENDOM. 3) JESUS IS OUR SABBATH REST … RESTING FROM OUR WORKS IN HIM. THE EARLY CHURCH MET ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AND SUNDAY IS NOT SATURDAY … IT’S NOT THE SABBATH. SUNDAY IS A TIME TO MEET TOGETHER IN TEACHING, FELLOWSHIP AND WORSHIP, WE ARE TO REST FROM OUR WORKS CONSTANTLY … IN JESUS. BACK TO EXODUS CH 31, Ex 31:18And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. WHEN THE PEOPLE AND MOSES FIRST RECEIVED THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IT WAS DELIVERED VERBALLY, NOW, IT’S WRITTEN DOWN. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX 31 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 30 Deep-Dive: Altar of Incense
08/11/2025
Exodus Chapter 30 Deep-Dive: Altar of Incense
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 30:1-16 The Altar of Incense Ex 30:1 “You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. 5You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6And you shall put it in front of the veil WHERE THE TABLE OF THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE AND THE MENORAH WITH 7 FLAMES IS LOCATED 7that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it, 8and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. 9You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. 10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” HORNS ON THIS ALTAR SIMILAR TO THE MAIN ALTAR … REPRESENTS POWER? … LIKE THE HORNS ON A BULL, HOWEVER, THE LAMPSTAND AND THE TABLE FOR THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE DON’T HAVE HORNS. INCENSE IS BURNED ON THIS ALTAR DAY AND NIGHT. THE OFFERING OF INCENSE TO A GOD WAS A COMMON PRACTICE IN THE WORLD-WIDE ANCIENT WORLD. LEV 26:30 GOD SPEAKING A WARNING TO ISRAEL, THROUGH MOSES, ABOUT IDOLATRY: And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. THE ISRAELITES ARE FORBIDDEN TO OFFER ANY INCENSE TO ANY OTHER GOD, OR ANY INCENSE OFFERED BY AN INDIVIDUAL TO YAHWEH – STRANGE INCENSE, AND/OR STRANGE FIRE, BEYOND THIS PRACTICE THAT THE PRIESTS WERE TO FOLLOW IN THE SANCTURARY EVERY DAY. POSSIBLE MEANINGS OF THE INCENSE: THE SMOKE OR CLOUD OF THE INCENSE COULD REPRESENT THE PILLAR OF CLOUD THAT HAD LED ISRAEL BY DAY UP TO THIS POINT AFTER LEAVING EGYPT … THE PILLAR WILL ALSO CONTINUE AFTER THEY LEAVE SINAI. THIS CLOUD OF INCENSE REPRESENTS THE PRESENCE OF GOD. Ex 13:21And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 22The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. PRAYER AS AN OFFERING TO GOD Rev 5:6And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain (JESUS), with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God (THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH JESUS) sent out into all the earth. 7And he JESUS & THE HOLY SPIRIT went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne YAHWEH. 8And when he JESUS/HOLY SPIRIT had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Ps 141: Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! PRAYER AS OPERATING WITH THE WILL OF GOD TO CAUSE/AFFECT CHANGE ON THE EARTH Rev 8:1 When the Lamb JESUS opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. SILENCE!! …IT’S GONNA GET SERIOUS! 2Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. THE INCENSE OF GOD COMBINED WITH THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS LEAD TO THE WILL OF GOD BEING CARRIED OUT ON THE EARTH !!! INCENSE TO IDENTIFY THE TABERNACLE AS SACRED SPACE. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE NEAR THE TABERNACLE WOULD CATCH A WHIFF OF THE PLEASANT FRAGRANT AROMA AND KNOW THAT GOD IS PRESENT. INCENSE OR PERFUME WAS VERY EXPENSIVE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND NOT COMMON – IT WAS A SPECIAL TREAT TO SMELL IT. IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS TO OFFER INCENSE TO GOD(S) AND TO REPRESENT SOMETHING AS BEING UNIQUE AND/OR ROYAL BECAUSE IT WAS EXPENSIVE TO MAKE AND WHEN YOU SMELLED IT YOU KNEW SOMETHING SPECIAL, OR SOMEONE SPECIAL, WAS AROUND: Dan 2:46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him. 47The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.” 48Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. 49Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court. EACH BELIEVER, INDIVIDUALLY AND CORPORATELY AS THE CHURCH … IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THE FRAGRANCE OF HIS HOLINESS - WE SPREAD THAT FRAGRANCE IN THE WORLD AS WE LIVE OUR LIVES Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, THROUGH THE CHURCH – INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. THROUGH THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE AND THROUGH US AS INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS 1 Cor 6:19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Rom 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. INTERESTING POINT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT THE TEMPLE, THE OFFERING OF INCENSE, JESUS AND HIS EXTENDED FAMILY … Lk 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. THEY WERE DESCENDED DIRECTLY FROM AARON 6And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. 7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years. WHO DOES THAT SOUND LIKE? … ABRAHAM & SARAH! according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. HE WAS CHOSEN BY LOT?? IN THE DOING OF HIS PRIESTLY DUTIES, ACCORDING TO TORAH – THE LAW – GIVEN TO MOSES AT SINAIA … ZECHARIAH’S PRAYERS FOR A CHILD WERE ANSWERED WHEN GABRIEL APPEARED TO HIM AS HE WAS FULFILLING HIS PRIESTLY DUTY … 10And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense WHY WERE THERE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE TEMPLE AT THAT TIME? THEY, WERE HOPING TO CATCH A WHIFF OF THAT BEAUTIFUL, ELUSIVE, RARE, EXPENSIVE FRAGRANCE OF GOD, 11And there appeared to him ZECHARIAH an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him THE SIGN OF A GODLY MAN – FEARFUL IN THE FACE OF HOLINESS. 13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard – THAT PRAYER JUST SO HAPPENED TO MATCH UP WITH THE WILL OF GOD (MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME AND YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN), and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. 16And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.” 18And Zechariah BEING A TRUE KNUCKLEHEADED ISRAELITE said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.” SOUNDS LIKE MOSES 19And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 20And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their time.” CONSEQUENCES FOR UNBELIEF OR SPIRITUAL PUSHBACK 21And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple. 22And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. 23And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home. EVEN THOUGH ZECHARIAH COULD NO LONGER SPEAK HE CONTINUED TO FULFILL HIS DUTY AS A HUSBAND 24After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, 25“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.” REMEMBER, SCRIPTURE SAYS they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord … AND A SIGN OF THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS ELIZABETH’S HUMILITY. THEN, THE ANGEL GABRIEL’S NEXT STOP WAS … 26In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. VERY INTERESTING THAT ZECHARIAH & ELIZABETH AND THE CONCEPTION OF ISRAEL’S LAST PROPHET, JOHN THE BAPTIZER, WERE ALL TIED TO THE DAILY OFFERING OF INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE – THE FRAGRANCE OF GOD THAT THE PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY … BACK TO EXODUS CH 30 The Census Tax Ex 30:11The Lord said to Moses, 12“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord. 14Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives. THIS PROCESS REMINDS THE ISRAELITES THAT THEY ARE SINNERS IN NEED OF ATONEMENT 16You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.” … AND, THE MONEY GIVEN WILL BE USED TO SERVICE THE TENT OF MEETING – THE ITEMS BEING USED TO PROVIDE SPIRITUAL “COVER” OR “COVERING” FOR THE PEOPLE. IF THERE IS NO TENT OF MEETING, NO ALTAR, NO SHOWBREAD, NO MENORAH, NO INCENSE, NO SACRIFICES ACCORDING TO GOD’S GUIDANCE, NO PRIESTHOOD, AND ESPECIALLY, NO ARK WITH THE ATONEMENT LID (MERCY SEAT) … THEN, NO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. WE HAVE NO TRUE CONCEPT OF THIS IN OUR MODERN CULTURE … THIS HAPPENED NEARLY 3,000 YEARS AGO IN AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION THAT GOD WAS CREATING OUT OF A SINFUL WORLD JUST A FEW GENERATIONS AFTER HE HAD FLOODED THE EARTH. BACK TO EXODUS CH 30 – THE CENSUS TAX COUNTING ONLY MALES 20+ YEARS OLD … REPRESENTING A HOUSEHOLD, BUT ONLY THE MAN IS COUNTED … APPEARS TO BE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. THE ASSESSMENT/OFFERING OF A HALF-SHECKEL IS NOT TIED TO WEALTH AND IS USED TO CREATE OR SUSTAIN THE TENT OF MEETING. AN OFFERING FOR ATONEMENT … A RANSOM FOR HIS LIFE SO THERE WON’T BE ANY PLAGUE (LIKE EGYPT). SO THE LORD WILL “REMEMBER” HIS PEOPLE. “ATONEMENT” MENTIONED HERE MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER PLACE IN SCRIPTURE … SIN INFECTS AND SPOILS ALL THINGS HUMAN, ONLY GOD CAN “ATONE” FOR SIN, OR “RESET” SACRED SPACE. THIS TAX IS SO THAT GOD WILL REMEMBER THEM MERCIFULLY. THIS TAX “SUPPORTS” THE AREA WHERE ATONEMENT IS MADE – THE SANCTUARY. THIS CENSUS TAX INTERRUPTS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SMELLS… MORE ON THE CENSUS: YAHWEH DIRECTED MOSES TO TAKE A CENSUS IN THE SECOND YEAR AFTER ISRAEL HAD LEFT EGYPT. Num 1:1-3 SHORTLY AFTER SINAI YAHWEH DIRECTED MOSES TO TAKE A SECOND CENSUS FORTY YEARS LATER … AFTER THE KNUCKLEHEAD GENERATION THAT HAD LEFT EGYPT DIED OUT … EVERYONE UNDER 20 YRS OLD AT THE TIME THE SPIES RETURNED FROM THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE REJECTED GOD, MOSES NUMBERED THE SECOND GENERATION IN Num 14 NO OTHER CENSUS IS RECORDED. JOSHUA IS ANOINTED TO LEAD THE SECOND GENERATION INTO THE PROMISED LAND AFTER THE SECOND CENSUS IS TAKEN, THEN YOU HAVE THE TIME OF THE JUDGES AND NO CENSUS IS RECORDED, THEN FIRST SAMUEL … SAMUEL WAS THE LAST JUDGE/FIRST PROPHET, THEN KING SAUL – HE NEVER TOOK A CENSUS, FOLLOWED BY KING DAVID (2 SAM). KEEP IN MIND THAT UP TO THIS POINT THE ONLY TIME A CENSUS HAD BEEN TAKEN IT HAD BEEN COMMANDED BY GOD, AND, IT’S ASSUMED THAT THE HALF-SHEKEL RANSOM HAD BEEN PAID BY EVERYONE WHO WAS COUNTED. DAVID’S GREAT SIN … HE TAKES A CENSUS. THIS STORY IS RECORDED IN 2 KINGS AND 1 CHRON, LET’S COMPARE THEM: 2 Sam 24:1 Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” KEEP YOUR FINGER ON THAT VERSE, NOW LOOK AT: 1 Chron 21:1 Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. WHAT DO YOU THINK … ? WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS? LET’S FINISH THE STORY IN 1 CHR 21: 1 Chr 2:2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.” 3But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” 4But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem. 5And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword. 6But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab. 7But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. 8And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 9And the Lord spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” 11So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Choose what you will: 12either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.” 13Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.” 14So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell. 15And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord (JESUS) was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father’s house. But do not let the plague be on your people.” 18Now the angel of the Lord (JESUS) had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19So David went up at Gad’s word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord. 20Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground. 22And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.” 23Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.” 24But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” 25So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. 26And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. 27Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 28At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at...
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Exodus Chapter 29 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Priests
08/11/2025
Exodus Chapter 29 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Priests
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 29 Moses is still on Mt Sinai being shown the heavenly tabernacle which Moses and the people of Israel are to replicate on earth … DETAILED, DETAILED, DETAILED descriptions have been given for the ark, the mercy seat (atoning lid), the table which will hold the bread of the presence and the golden lampstand which is to be kept lit at all times, the altar, the tent which will define the holy place and the most holy place, and the large tapestries which will encircle the tabernacle … roughly the size of a football field. NOW GOD WILL SET APART PRIESTS TO SERVE HIM IN HIS SANCTUARY AND BE MEDIATORS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL … THIS WAS INTRODUCED IN THE LAST SECTION WHEN GOD WAS GIVING THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS Ex 28:41And you shall put them (the priestly garments) on Aaron your (Moses’) brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests SO, THIS IS THE CREATION OF THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD WHICH EVENTUALLY DEVOLVED INTO THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD … MOSES AND AARON WERE FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI. Ex 29:1 “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them that they may serve me as priests. EXACTLY AS GOD COMMANDS Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish, 2and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams. 4You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 5Then you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 6And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban. 7You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. 8Then you shall bring his sons and put coats on them, 9and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons. KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS PRIESTHOOD WILL FAIL, FAIL, FAIL TO DO WHAT GOD INTENDS. EVEN AS MOSES IS ON SINAI GOD’S HIGH PRIEST, AARON, IS WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, AT THE FOOT OF SINAI, MAKING THE GOLDEN CALF IDOL ?!?! Ex 29:10“Then you shall bring the bull UNBELEMISHED before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. LET’S STOP AND CONSIDER THIS STATEMENT … MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS TEACH THAT THIS IS A SYMBOLIC TRANSFER OF THE SINS OF AARON AND HIS SONS TO THE BULL, HOWEVER, ANOTHER WAY TO THINK ABOUT THIS IS THAT THEY ARE LAYING ON HANDS TO IDENTIFY THAT PARTICULAR BULL AS THE SACRIFICE AND IDENTIFY WITH IT … THE MEANING IS NOT COMPLETELY CLEAR … CONSIDER THAT THE ONLY PLACE IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT’S STATED THAT SINS ARE ACTUALLY PLACED ON AN ANIMAL IS LEVITICUS 16, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, AND THOSE SINS ARE PLACED ON THE GOAL WHICH IS SENT INTO THE WILDERNESS. THE THOUGHT PROCESS IS THAT ONCE SINS ARE PLACED ON AN ANIMAL IS IT STILL HOLY AND UNBLEMISHED AND ACCEPTABLE AS A SACRIFICE? BACK TO EX 29 11Then you shall kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting (THE ENTRANCE OF THE TABERNACLE – THE HOLY PLACE AND HOLY OF HOLIES WAS INSIDE THE TABERNACLE – WHERE BOTH THE LORD AND THE PEOPLE CAN SEE IT … THOSE OUTSIDE THE TABERNACLE), 12and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar. GALLONS OF BLOOD INVOLVED IN THE WHOLE PROCESS POURED OUT AT THE BASE OF THE ALTAR … CONSIDER THE MESS THIS MADE! 13And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. ENTRAILS, LIVERS AND KIDNEYS WERE OFTEN USED IN PAGAN MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT & DIVINATION … BURN THEM UP – ON THE ALTAR SO THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN USE THEM ... !!! 14But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung (BULL-POO IS EXPELLED OR EXPOSED WHEN YOU SLAUGHTER THE ANIMAL) you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. WHERE THE UNCLEAN IS TAKEN … NOT RITUALLY CLEAN … REMEMBER, JESUS DIED OUTSIDE THE CAMP. DISSECTION AND DISMEMBERMENT OF A BULL … A NASTY, BLOODY, BRUTAL PHYSICALLY DIFFICULT PROCESS. Ex 29:15“Then you shall take one of the rams WITHOUT BLEMISH, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram NOT NECESSARILY THAT THE SINS OF AARON AND HIS SONS ARE LAID ON THE RAM, OR, SIMPLY THAT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS DESIGNATES THAT SPECIFIC ANIMAL AS THE SACRIFICE 16and you shall kill the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar. 17Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 18and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma a food offering to the Lord. IF DONE PROPERLY GOD WILL ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE AND ISRAEL WILL BE REMINDED OF THAT ACCEPTANCE BY THE SMELL – MEAT COOKING – A PLEASING SMELL TO MOST PEOPLE, A “PLEASING AROMA FOR YAHWEH” … CONSIDER … Gen 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”: So, this passage appears to be saying that when God smelled the pleasing aroma of Noah’s sacrifice, He made a decision to never again curse the ground because of man. Remember, God does appear as a man in more than a few places in the old testament and when he was traveling to Sodom with the two angels the three of them did stop to visit Abraham and Sarah and they ate the food that Sarah prepared … BACK TO EXODUS … THESE SACRIFICES ARE NOT “FEEDING GOD” ANIMALS THAT WERE SLAUGHTERED AND COOKED WERE FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE AND/OR THE PRIESTS DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF OFFERING OR SACRIFICE … THE ISRAELITES ARE OFFERING THE ANIMAL TO GOD AS FOOD THEY WOULD HAVE EATEN THEMSELVES, INSTEAD, THEY’RE GIVING IT TO GOD. GOD IS NOT DEPENDENT ON, OR IMPROVED BY, THESE SACRIFICES Ex 29:19 “You shall take the other ram, A SECOND RAM and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, 20and you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet REMEMBER, FEET ARE UNCOVERED WHEN STANDING ON HOLY GROUND, ALSO, MOST PEOPLE ARE RIGHT HANDED … AS THE PRIEST STEPS FORWARD IT IS WITH THE RIGHT FOOT FIRST – AND GOD WILL SEE THE BLOOD ON THE BIG TOE, THE PRIEST REACHES FORWARD WITH THE RIGHT HAND – AND GOD WILL SEE THE BLOOD ON THE THUMB, AS THE PRIEST INCLINES HIS HEAD TO LISTEN TO GOD HE MOVES HIS RIGHT EAR TO THE FRONT – AND GOD WILL SEE THE BLOOD … REMEMBER, THIS SYSTEM IS BEING SET UP TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE … PROTECT THEM FROM WHO? … YAHWEH! ALSO, THE BLOOD PLACED ON THE PRIESTS DESIGNATES THAT THEY BELONG TO YAHWEH … NOT A JOB YOU CAN CLOCK INTO AND OUT OF … YOU’RE ALWAYS A PRIEST, 24/7. BACK TO EX 29: … and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar. LOT OF MESSY BLOOD ON THE SIDES OF THE ALTAR AND THE BASE 21Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons’ garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him. NOTE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW PLACES IN THE BIBLE WHERE BLOOD IS PLACED ON PEOPLE, THIS IS THE ONLY PASSAGE IN THE NT: 1 Pet 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: BACK TO EX 29 … NOTE THAT ALL OF THIS DETAIL MAY BE REQUIRED BE GOD SIMPLY TO SEE IF THE PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW IT … HOW SERIOUS ARE YOU ABOUT TRULY FOLLOWING ME, WORSHIPING ME – AS I COMMAND YOU TO, KNOWING ME – KNOWING GOD. Ex 29:22“You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), 23and one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord. 24You shall put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, A HEAVY BLOODY MESSY PILE and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. MAKING SURE GOD SEES IT … LIKE WAVING A FLAG … TO GET GOD’S ATTENTION – TO AVOID HIS WRATH. 25Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the Lord. It is a food offering to the Lord. NOT “FEEDING GOD” THIS IS FOOD YOU WOULD HAVE EATEN … NOW OFFERED TO GOD. NO ONE WOULD MAKE THIS UP … IN THESE INSTRUCTIONS GOD SEEMS TO BE SAYING: “HOW SERIOUS ARE YOU ABOUT FOLLOWING, SERVING AND KNOWING ME?” Ex 29:26“You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be your (MOSES’) portion. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME A PORTION IS OFFERED TO MOSES, BECAUSE MOSES IS ACTING AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD IN CONSECRATING AARON AND HIS SONS FOR THE FIRST TIME – INSTITUTING THE PRIESTHOOD. AFTER THIS, THE HIGH PRIEST WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF MOSES AS FUTURE PRIESTS AND HIGH PRIESTS ARE CONSECRATED. 27And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests’ portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron’s and his sons’. 28It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord. IT’S OFFERED TO GOD, AND GOD GIVES IT TO THE PRIESTHOOD… Ex 29:29“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them. 30The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them seven days. A SEVEN DAY PROCESS … THE GARMENTS ARE PASSED ON THROUGH THE GENERATIONS … THE GARMENT DESIGNATES THE PRIESTLY OFFICE THE MAN HOLDS Ex 29:31“You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. 32And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting. SO THOSE OUTSIDE THE TABERNACLE CAN ALSO OBSERVE THIS 33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy. 34And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy. IT’S A PERPETUAL DUE – IF YOU CAN’T EAT ALL OF IT, THEN BURN UP THE LEFTOVERS … HYPERSCRUPULOUS … NOTHING LEFT TO CHANCE, MISUNDERSTANDING, OR FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. IT BELONGS TO GOD. Ex 29:35“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through seven days shall you ordain them, 36and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it. 37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy. SOMETHING “BECOMING HOLY” SIMPLY MEANS THAT IT BELONGS TO GOD. PURIFYING THE ALTAR MEANS RESETTING IT TO IT’S ORIGINAL NATURE OR PURPOSE … SACRED SPACE, SACRED OBJECTS USED IN THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM … THE ALTAR MUST BE PURIFIED BECAUSE IT’S BEING HANDLED BY NASTY, SINFUL, UNCLEAN HUMANS Ex 29:38“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. 39One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. SUNRISE AND SUNSET, EVERY DAY. 40And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma ISRAEL WILL BE ABLE TO SMELL THE MEAT COOKING AND BE REMINDED OF THE DAILY SACRIFICE, a food offering to the Lord. 42It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting THE ALTAR COULD BE SEEN FROM THE ENTRANCE before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. 44I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests. 45I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. 46And they shall know that I am the Lord their God (YAHWEH), who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. THIS REMINDER IS OFFERED OVER AND OVER AND OVER THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL … “THAT I MIGHT DWELL AMONG THEM” IS NEW. GOD HAD TO BRING ISRAEL OUT OF SINFUL, IDOLATROUS EGYPT IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DWELL AMONG THEM. GOD WILL USE HIS TABERNACLE IN ORDER TO TRAVEL WITH HIS PEOPLE, TO COMMUNE WITH THEM, TO ENJOY HIS PEOPLE, TO BLESS HIS PEOPLE, GUIDE AND PROVIDE FOR THEM, SO THAT HIS PEOPLE CAN BE A NATION OF PRIESTS BEFORE THE REST OF THE SINFUL CORRUPT WORLD. BEFORE WE WRAP UP CONSIDER THESE PASSAGES FROM THE NT: John 1:14 (THE APOSTLE JOHN WRITING) And the Word (JESUS) became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God (YAHWEH); the only God (JESUS), who is at the Father’s side, he (JESUS) has made him (YAHWEH) known. 1 Cor 6:19 PAUL WRITING TO THE CORINTHIANS Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Rom 12:1 I (PAUL) appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 29 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 28 Deep-Dive: The Priestly Garments
07/12/2025
Exodus Chapter 28 Deep-Dive: The Priestly Garments
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex CH 28 MOSES IS STILL ON MT SINAI RECEIVING INSTRUCTION FROM GOD FOR 40 DAYS, IN THIS SECTION YAHWEH ESTABLISHES THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD: Ex 28:1“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. THE ISRAELITES KNOW WHAT A PRIEST IS, MELCHIZEDEK AND ABRAM, JETHRO – MOSES’ FATHER IN LAW THE PRIEST OF MIDIAN, ALSO, THERE WERE PRIESTS OF THE PAGAN GODS IN EGYPT … THE CONCEPT OF PRIESTHOOD WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THEY HANDLED SACRIFICES, RECEIVED OFFERINGS ON BEHALF OF GOD, PROVIDED MEDIATION BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THEIR GOD … REPRESENTED THE PEOPLE TO GOD, DIFFERENT FROM A PROPHET WHO REPRESENTS GOD TO THE PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE NEED A PRIEST – A MEDIATOR BETWEEN SINFUL MAN AND GOD. YAHWEH SETS UP HIS OFFICIAL PRIESTHOOD AT THIS TIME THROUGH AARON AND HIS SONS. 2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, (GOD IS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARTISTRY .. HE HAS ALREADY CHOSEN THE ARTISTANS) that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. 4These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. 5They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. SIMILAR TO THE HANGINGS SURROUNDING THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE 6 “And they shall make the ephod LIKE A WOMAN’S JUMPER, OR APRON, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked. 7It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together. 8And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 9You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, 10six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth AS GOD DIRECTED THEM TO BE BORN … NOT BASED ON ANYTHING THEY DID LATER IN LIFE SUCH AS JOSEPH SUPPLANTING REUBEN AS THE FIRST-BORN. 11As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. THESE JEWELER SKILLS WERE MOST LIKELY LEARNED BY ISRAELITES WHO WERE CRAFTSMEN IN EGYPT. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree. 12And you shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance. 13You shall make settings of gold filigree, 14and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings. REPRESENTING THE TWELVE SONS OF JACOB/ISRAEL … ALL OF THE PEOPLE … BY TRIBES. 15 “You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it. 16It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth. 17You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; 18and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold filigree. 21There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 22You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. 23And you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 24And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 25The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 26You shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 27And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 28And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it may lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, so that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod. AN UNBREAKABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YAHWEH AND HIS PEOPLE … SECURITY. 29 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the Lord. 30And in the breastpiece of judgment (A POUCH IN THE BREASTPIECE) you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, USED TO COMMUNICATE GOD’S WILL … LIKE CASTING LOTS .,, BUT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE OR SPECIFICALLY HOW THEY WERE USED and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord regularly. PUT ON (AND REMOVED) BY THE HIGH PRIEST WHEN HE MINISTERS BEFORE THE LORD. THE URIM AND THUMMIM, WHEN USED BY A PRIEST, PUT AN END TO DIVINATION & SORCERY IN ISRAEL … THIS WAS A TOOL THE ISRAELITES COULD USE TO SEEK AN ANSWER FROM GOD WHEN NO PROPHET WAS AVAILABLE. WE SEE KING SAUL AND DAVID USING IT IN THE BOOK OF 1 Sam ... Prov 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. 31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, so that it may not tear. 33On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, 34a golden bell (MAKES NOISE) and a pomegranate (DECORATION), a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. 35And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the Lord, and when he comes out, so that he does not die. THE SOUND HELPED THE PRIEST TO FOCUS ON WHAT HE WAS DOING BECAUSE SERVING YAHWEH INCORRECTLY IN THE TABERNACLE COULD GET YOU KILLED … YAHWEH’S DIRECTIONS ARE NOT TO BE IGNORED OR MOCKED, THE PRIEST MUST BE AWARE THAT HIS LIFE IS ON THE LINE IF HE DOESN’T FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY AND APPROACH GOD HUMBLY, WHO IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE? … YAHWEH … WE SERVE A DANGEROUS GOD! 36“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord/YAHWEH.’ 37And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. 38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord. THE NAME YAHWEH & HOLINESS IS ENGRAVED ON AARON … AND AARON WILL BEAR THE GUILT FROM THE HOLY THINGS THE PEOPLE HAVE OFFERED TO GOD … EVERY SINGLE SACRIFICIAL ACT BY THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL BE TAINTED BY SIN … 39“You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework. 40 “For Aaron’s sons (ALL PRIESTS) you shall make coats and sashes and caps. You shall make them for glory and beauty. 41And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. 42You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs; 43and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him. NAKEDNESS … IMMODESTY … GOES BACK TO GOD’S DIRECTION REGARDING STONE ALTARS, NOT HIGH UP SO NAKEDNESS IS NOT EXPOSED. FOUR OF THE ITEMS ARE COMMON TO ALL PRIESTS: TUNIC, SASH, HEADPIECE, AND UNDERGARMENTS 28:39-43 ALL MADE OF HIGH QUALITY WHITE LINEN – VERY EXPENSIVE (WHAT ANGELS WEAR AND WHAT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WEARS Rev 19:7Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints) … AND, FOUR ITEMS UNIQUE TO THE HIGH PRIEST – WHICH HE ONLY WORE WHEN HE ENTERED THE HOLY TENT. 28:6-38 BREASTPIECE (WHICH HOLDS THE URIM AND THUMMIN – USED TO COMMUNICATE WITH GOD – TO LEARN HIS WILL), THE EPHOD, THE ROBE AND THE DIADEM (REPRESENTING ROYALTY, OR VICE REGENCY, KINGSHIP). THE HIGH PRIEST WAS A TYPE OF KING-PRIEST. HIS GARMENTS WERE ALSO MADE OF HIGH QUALITY LINEN BUT ALSO INCLUDED SOME ORNAMENTAL BLUE PURPLE & CRIMSON YARNS. THE HIGH PRIEST’S CLOTHES ARE SIMILAR TO THE CURTAINS OF THE SANCTUARY AND ITEMS IN THE SANCTUARY. THE WAY PRIESTS WERE DRESSED AND ESPECIALLY THE HIGH PRIEST, WAS THEOLOGICAL MESSAGING – THE HIGH PRIEST’S GARMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO REPRESENT AN IMAGE OF PRIESTLY ROYALTY PRIESTS ARE HUMAN, APPOINTED BY GOD, INVOLVED IN THE WORK OF THE SANCTUARY, AND THEIR WORK IS INVOLVED IN MAKING INTERCESSION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GOD – ESPECIALLY THE ROLE OF THE HIGH PRIEST, AND WE’LL SEE IN LEVITICUS THAT THEY WILL BLESS THE PEOPLE ON BEHALF OF GOD. KEEP IN MIND THE ORIGINAL PLAN THAT GOD HAD … WHEN THE ISRAELITES FIRST ARRIVED AT SINAI AND MOSES WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN … THIS IS WHAT YAHWEH SAID TO HIM: Ex 19:3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” WHAT GOD DESIRED FOR ISRAEL … THE NATION WOULD BE HIS WITNESS TO THE WORLD. LET’S TIE IN JESUS … WHEN HE FIRST BEGAN HIS MINISTRY Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned (FROM HIS 40 DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS WHERE HE WAS TEMPTED BY SATAN) in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 18 (QUOTING ISAIAH CH 61) “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” LET’S READ THAT PASSAGE IN ISAIAH CH 61: The Year of the Lord’s Favor 1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, THAT WAS WHERE JESUS STOPPED, THE REST THE PASSAGE WILL OCCUR AS JESUS BUILDS HIS CHURCH THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND AT HIS SECOND COMING … and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; 3to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. 4 They shall build up the ancient ruins; THE CHURCH WORKING IN THE WORLD) they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. 5 Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; 6 but you shall be called the priests of the Lord; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast. 7 Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy. 8 For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed. THE CHURCH 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. (JESUS AND HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH)11For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations. GOD’S PLAN WAS FOR ISRAEL TO FULFILL THAT ROLE IN RELATION TO THE OTHER NATIONS – THE WHOLE EARTH, BUT IT’S TAKEN JESUS ALONG WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BRING IT ABOUT THROUGH THE CHURCH. WE ARE PRIESTS AND WE ARE KINGS IN THAT ONE DAY WE WILL SIT WITH JESUS ON HIS THRONE AND RULE THE NATIONS AND JUDGE ANGELS … JUDGING = MIDDLE MANAGEMENT FINALLY, WE NEED A PRIEST NO LESS THAN THE ISRAELITES DID Heb 4:14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Heb 7:23 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 25Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 26 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 28 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 27 Deep-Dive: Altar, Burnt Offerings, Courtyard, Oil
07/12/2025
Exodus Chapter 27 Deep-Dive: Altar, Burnt Offerings, Courtyard, Oil
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 27 MOSES STILL ON MT SINAI FOR 40 DAYS RECEIVING INSTRUCTION FROM GOD The Bronze Altar REMEMBER, BRONZE WAS VERY HIGH TECH & VERY VALUABLE … THIS ALTAR IS DESIGNED TO COMPLETELY BURN UP ITEMS PLACED ON IT MORE DETAILED DETAIL FROM GOD … A HYPER - SCRUPULOUS DEITY Ex 27:1“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. 2And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. 3You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze. 4You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar. 6And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7And the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made. A PERMANENT ALTAR IS NEW, BEFORE THIS THE ISRAELITES WERE TO NEVER RE-USE A PAGAN ALTAR, AND WERE TO NEVER USE TOOLS ON A STONE ALTAR BRONZE – OUTSIDE THE TENT (GOLD USED INSIDE THE TENT) … MOVING FURTHER AWAY FROM GOD’S PRESENCE. HORNS ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE ALTAR. SHOVELS, FORKS, BASINS, POTS, FIREPANS, ETC … PRACTICAL, GOD’S KITCHEN, BUT IT’S PORTABLE … CARRIED WITH POLES NOW OVERLAID WITH BRONZE The Court of the Tabernacle Ex 27:9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side. 10Its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, its pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 12And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases. 13The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits. 14The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 15On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 16For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases. 17All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze. 18The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze. 19All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze. Oil for the Lamp Ex 27:20 “You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel. THE LIGHT THAT SHOULD NEVER GO OUT – AARON & HIS SONS, THE PRIESTHOOD, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LIGHT AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 27 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 26 Deep-Dive: The Tabernacle
07/12/2025
Exodus Chapter 26 Deep-Dive: The Tabernacle
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS CH 26 The Tabernacle MOSES IS STILL ON MOUNT SINAI IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CONSTRUCT THE TABERNACLE AND HOLY FURNITURE Ex 26:1“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them. 2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size. 3Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. 5Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another. 6And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole. CHERUBIM – DIGNITY, HONOR, TERROR … IMAGES WOVEN INTO EACH OF THESE PANELS … WARNING !! IF YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS IN THE TABERNACLE … BEWARE! Ex 26:7“You shall also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make. 8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall be the same size. 9You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent. 10You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set. THIS IS THE OUTSIDE OF THE CURTAINS – GOATS’ HAIR. GOD WILL BE IN THAT PLACE, THE TENT THAT WILL BE MOVING WITH THE PEOPLE. WITHOUT THE TABERNACLE MOSES HAS TO GO UP THE MOUNTAIN TO MEET WITH GOD – THE TABERNACLE ALLOWS GOD TO TRAVEL WITH HIS PEOPLE. 11“You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole. 12And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. 13And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it. 14And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and a covering of goatskins on top. 15“You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 16Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame. 17There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together. So shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle. 18You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side; 19and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons; 20and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames, 21and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame. 22And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames. 23And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear; 24they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. Thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners. 25And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame. 26“You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, 27and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 28The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall run from end to end. 29You shall overlay the frames with gold and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold. 30Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain. MOSES SAW THIS IN HEAVEN … YAHWEH’S THRONE ROOM 31 “And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it. 32And you shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver. 33And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. 34You shall put the mercy seat (COVERING LID) on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 35And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you shall put the table on the north side. INSIDE THE TENT ENCLOSURE – RECTANGULAR AND OPEN TO THE SKY 36“You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. 37And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them. BRONZE WAS VERY VALUABLE AND VERY HIGH TECH FOR THAT TIME IN HISTORY BECAUSE IT HAD TO BE MADE … SMELTED FROM COPPER AND TIN … THIS IS ALL OCCURRING AT THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE BEFORE THE WORLD SLID BACK INTO THE IRON AGE. COPPER FROM CYPRUS, TIN FROM AFGHANISTAN, THERE WAS A WORLD-WIDE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ALLOWED THE BABYLONIANS AND EGYPTIANS TO IMPORT BOTH AND SMELT THEM INTO BRONZE. IN THE 12th CENTURY BC THIS INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSED … THAT’S ONE REASON WHY WE DON’T HAVE GOOD ARCHEOLOGICAL RECORDS FROM THAT TIME … IT WAS POST APOCALYPTIC … CIVILIZATION HAD COLLAPSED … THAT’S THE BACKGROUND FOR THE EXODUS & INVASION OF THE PROMISED LAND … BRONZE WAS ALMOST TREATED AS MAGICAL … A RELIC OF THAT LOST “BRONZE AGE” CIVILIZATION. THINK, FLOOD, EARTH REPOPULATED, TOWER OF BABEL, EARTH DIVIDED BY LANGUAGE/CULTURE, ABRAHAM CALLED & THE NATION OF ISRAEL PLANTED IN PALESTINE, WORLD-WIDE 7 YEAR FAMINE, JOSEPH & EGYPT SAVE THE WORLD, ISRAEL GROWS INTO A NATION IN EGYPT WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD REGRESSES INTO THE IRON AGE, THEN THE EXODUS ... BACK TO MOSES ON MT SINAI … GOD IS GIVING VERY, VERY SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING HOW THE PEOPLE WERE TO WORSHIP HIM. ISRAEL IS NOT CALLED TO BE CREATIVE – THEY’RE CALLED TO OBEDIENCE. SCRUPULOUS INSTRUCTIONS … WHAT I (YAHWEH) WANT … NUMBER OF CLASPS, ETC. ISRAEL’S COVENANT WITH GOD IS TO DO WHAT THEY’RE TOLD TO DO … DO NOT TAKE OVER PAGAN WORSHIP SITES … DESTROY THEM!! CREATIVITY DISTRACTS AND DETRACTS FROM WORSHIP … THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE CHURCH AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE REFORMATION. THE FOCUS IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE WORD OF GOD. GOD WANTS TO BE WITH HIS PEOPLE … TRAVELING WITH THEM … IN THEIR MIDST. IT ALL STARTS IN THE DESERT WITH ABRHAM’S DESCENDANTS FOLLOWING GOD. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 26 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 25 Deep-Dive: The Ark of the Covenant
07/12/2025
Exodus Chapter 25 Deep-Dive: The Ark of the Covenant
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex Ch 25 (MOSES IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD ON MT SINAI … PARADISE, THE THRONE ROOM OF GOD … FOR 40 DAYS … THE TABERNACLE AND THE FURNITURE MOSES IS COMMANDED TO CREATE WILL BE REPLICAS OF WHAT EXISTS IN GOD’S HEAVENLY THRONE ROOM) Exodus 25:1 The Lord said to Moses, 2“Speak to the people of Israel (THIS IS HOW GOD COMMUNICATES WITH HIS PEOPLE – MOSES SPEAKS FOR GOD), that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. (THIS IS NOT COERCION – GOD IS ALLOWING HIS PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE – FREE WILL – EVERY MAN WHOSE HEART MOVES HIM) 3And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4blue and purple and scarlet yarns (EXPENSIVE DIES) and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, 5tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood, 6oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 7onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. 8And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE, OIL, SPICES, PRECIOUS STONES … ISRAEL IS A LITTLE OVER A MILLION PEOPLE (600,000 MEN) WANDERING IN THE DESERT – WHERE IS ALL OF THIS STUFF GOING TO COME FROM? Ex 12: 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. GOD COMMANDED THE PEOPLE TO PLUNDER THE EGYPTIANS IN ANTICIPATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE … HE ALLOWED THE PEOPLE TO GAIN WEALTH IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE IT BACK TO GOD … FREE WILL OFFERINGS. Ex 25:9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. GOD SHOWS MOSES THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE AND MOSES IS TO MAKE THE EARTHLY TABERNACLE TO MIRROR THE HEAVENLY ONE. Ps 11:4 The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven; Rev 15:2 And I (JOHN, GIVEN A PEEK INTO HEAVEN) saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire … 5 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened THIS IS THE HEAVENLY TABERNACLE REFERRED TO BY THE WRITER OF HEBREWS – MOSES SAW SOMETHING THAT WAS IN HEAVEN … GOD’S THRONE IN HEAVEN, HIS TEMPLE, HEAVENLY THINGS THAT ALREADY EXISTED. Heb 8:1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest (NOT OF AARON’S LINE, NOT A LEVITICAL PRIEST … A PRIEST SIMILAR TO MELCHIZEDEK {CH 7 OF HEBREWS}, JESUS, THE GUARANTOR OF A BETTER COVENANT – BETTER THAN THE COVENANT OF THE LAW GIVEN AT SINAI), one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They (LEVITICAL PRIESTS) serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 8For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” 13In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one (GIVEN AT SINAI) obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. BACK TO EXODUS CH 25: The Ark of the Covenant (OF THE LAW) THE PLACE WHERE MOSES WOULD KEEP THE TABLETS OF THE LAW WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF GOD. Ex 25:10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ARK: a wooden box or chest overlaid with gold that contained the tablets of the law. It served both practical and symbolic purposes and was instrumental in both rituals and miracles. The Israelites believed the ark of the covenant was symbolically Yahweh’s throne—representing His very presence on earth. The Hebrew word for “ark” “aron” designates a common storage chest or coffin. However, the Bible makes a clear designation between the ark of the covenant and a common chest. While the most common name for the ark is “ark of the covenant,” it is also referred to as “the ark of God,” “the ark of might,” “the holy ark,” and “the ark of testimony” (or simply “the testimony”). WHY ACACIA WOOD? Harder than oak and very durable because the wood-eating insects avoid it. The Hebrew word used here, tevah, can refer to a vessel of any size. The same word is used in Ex 2:3 to describe the basket Moses’ mother placed him in. CONSIDER THE ARK THAT MOSES IS DIRECTED TO MAKE WHICH WILL CONTAIN AND PROTECT THE LAW OF GOD TO THE ARK THAT NOAH WAS DIRECTED TO MAKE WHICH PROTECTED HUMAN AND ANIMAL LIFE FROM THE WRATH OF GOD BACK TO EXODUS AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT Ex 25:13You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. 15The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. (THE POLES WERE A PERMANENT PART OF THE ARK) 16And you shall put into the ark the testimony (TABLETS) that I shall give you. THE POLES THROUGH THE RINGS OF THE ARK CREATE A TYPE OF PALANQUIN, OR LITTER. IT WAS TO BE CARRIED BY THE POLES – THE ARK ITSELF WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NEVER TOUCHED DIRECTLY. THE NEED FOR THESE POLES BECOMES CLEAR IN 2 SAM CH 6 … DAVID IS BRINGING THE ARK TO JERUSALEM AND IT’S RIDING ON A CART … THE ARK SHIFTS AND UZZAH REACHES OUT TO STABILIZE IT BUT THE ARK WAS NOT TO BE TOUCHED SO GOD BREAKS OUT IN ANGER AGAINST UZZAH AND KILLS HIM … DAVID REACTS WITH FEAR THEN LATER REALIZES HE SHOULD HAVE HAD THE LEVITES CARRY THE ARK WITH THE POLES … AS GOD HAD DIRECTED IN THE EXODUS ... DESIGNED BY GOD TO CARRY THE ARK !!!!!!!!!!! Ex 25:17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. (Heb “KFR” – WIPE/SMEAR/COVER SOMETHING, AS IN “YOM-THEY, KIPPUR-FROM KFR-WIPE/SMEAR/COVER). THE WORD ATONEMENT WAS MOST LIKELY INVENTED BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AROUND 1328 “AT-ONEMENT” BECAUSE HE COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO TRANSLATE KFR-WIFE/SMEAR/COVER. IT’S ACTUALLY THE LID OF THE ARK WHERE THE BLOOD IS SMEARED ON THE DAY OF “ATONEMENT.” “MERCY SEAT” IS THE NOUN FORM OF KFR (THE PLACE OF WIPING/SMEARING/COVERING … The translation “mercy seat” is based on how the Septuagint (The Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament (Genesis—Malachi) begun around 250 bc. Sometimes abbreviated with the Roman numeral for 70 (LXX) based on the tradition that 70 translators participated.) handled the Hebrew word KFR/kapporeth. Instead of the literal translation “lid, or, covering,” these ancient translations INTERPRETED the noun kapporeth term to mean “mercy” and the slab as “seat.” This interpretation is based on Num 7:89 (compare Exod 25:22), which describes Yahweh’s voice emanating above the kapporeth, and the phrase that Yahweh is “enthroned above the cherubim” (1 Sam 4:4; 2 Sam 6:2; 1 Chr 13:6; 2 Kgs 19:15; Isa 37:16; Pss 80:2; 99:1). The kapporeth (LID, COVERING) was the place where God met Moses in the tabernacle. In the Day of Atonement the blood of the sacrifice is never sprinkled on the people – it’s sprinkled on the lid/covering – to RESET sacred space – bring it back to its original purpose. To CLEANSE sacred space, the tabernacle, from defilement. To wipe clean, to cleanse impurity (Lev Ch 16) to restore the sacred sanctuary to its original purpose, SO, a better translation of “mercy seat” would be “lid / covering” IN SUMMARY; It’s a box with a solid gold lid. The box is plated with gold. It’s made from acacia wood. It’s associated with God’s presence. God appears from above the lid to speak with Moses. God is never said to be in the box. He’s never said to be in the Ark. He is never said to speak out of or from the Ark. He appears above the lid, above the wings of the cherubim that are affixed to the lid. So the Ark doesn’t contain God. “Mercy” comes from God Himself, not from the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, and that was never the “place” where the forgiveness of sins came from on the Day of Atonement. In the original ancient Hebrew (kapporeth) the purpose of the lid of the ark was to be the place where the carved gold cherubim were located and the place from which God would speak with Moses. Remember, at Sinai God is speaking with Moses on the top of the mountain … God will move to the space above the ark once the tabernacle is completed … the ark will represent God’s throne in heaven. BACK TO EXODUS 25:17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold (LITERALLY “LIVING CREATURE” – GUARDIANS OF GOD’S THRONE); of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 19Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. 20The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. (CHERUBIM – FEARSOME – TO FRIGHTEN ENEMIES AND GUARD THE ARK – ATTACHED TO THE LID) Gen 3:24So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. 2 Ki 19:15 Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives above the cherubim. You are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth. Ez 28:14 You (KING OF TYRE … MAYBE SATAN?) were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. Ez CH 10 … I WON’T READ THIS CHAPTER BUT THIS IS THE SCENE WHERE YAHWEH PERMANENTLY DEPARTS THE TEMPLE RIDING ON HIS THRONE WHICH IS CARRIED BY CHERUBIM … NOTE HOW DISTINCTIVE AND TERRIFYING THEY ARE BACK TO EXODUS CH 25 Ex 25:21 And you shall put the mercy seat (ATONING LID – WHERE BLOOD IS SPRINKLED TO RESET SACRED SPACE … THE SACRED SPACE OF THE TABERNACLE, WHERE GOD DWELLS AMONGST HIS PEOPLE) on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony (THE TWO TABLETS OF THE COVENANT – THE 10 COMMANDMENTS – MOSES DOESN’T HAVE THESE YET) that I shall give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat (LID-COVERING), from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel. Nu 7:89 And when Moses came to the tent of assembly to speak with him (GOD), he (MOSES) would hear the voice (OF GOD) speaking to him (MOSES) from the atonement cover/lid (THE MERCY SEAT), which is on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and he (GOD) would speak to him (MOSES). BACK TO EXODUS CH 25 The Table for Bread Ex 25:23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 24You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. 25And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim. 26And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. THE TABLE IS SIMILAR TO THE ARK, BUT IT’S NOT A BOX … IT’S A TABLE. Ex 25:29 And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. THE PANTRY AND KITCHEN OF THE LORD: PLATES FOR THE PRIESTS TO USE WHEN THEY EAT THE SACRIFICES DISHES TO HOLD INCENSE FLAGONS FOR DRINK OFFERINGS OF WINE TO BE POURED OUT BEFORE THE LORD. Ex 29:39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. THE ONLY MENTION OF DRINK OFFERINGS IN THE NT IS IN Phil 2:17 & 2 Tim 4:6 IN BOTH PASSAGES PAUL REFERS TO HIMSELF AS BEING A DRINK OFFERING BEING POURED OUT BOWLS TO HOLD THE BLOOD FROM THE SACRIFICES WHEN THE BLOOD WAS TAKEN TO BE SPRINKLED ON THE PEOPLE, THE ALTAR AND THE MERCY SEAT – DEPENDING ON WHAT SACRIFICE WAS BEING OFFERED. WHAT ELSE DO “BOWLS” HOLD AS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE … ? Rev 16:1 Then I (JOHN) heard a loud voice from the temple (IN HEAVEN) telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” BACK TO EXODUS CH 25 Ex 25:30And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly. WHAT IS THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE? IN MANY PAGAN RITUALS FOOD IS BROUGHT TO THE GOD(S) … THE ISRAELITES SAW THIS IN EGYPT, THEY WERE FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF THE “FOOD OF/FOR THE GODS” … THAT’S NOT WHAT THIS IS. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THE PRESENCE OF FOOD IN A HOUSE SIGNIFIED THAT LIFE WAS PRESENT. ABANDONED HOMES DID NOT HAVE FOOD IN THEM. THIS SHOW BREAD (TYNDALE’S INTERPRETATION) … SHOWS THAT GOD IS PRESENT. LEV 24:5“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf. 6And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord. 7And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath day Aaron (THE PRIESTHOOD DOESN’T EXIST YET) shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. 9And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord’s food offerings, a perpetual due.” (THE PRIESTS EAT IT WHEN IT’S BEING REPLACED – IT’S A HOLY OBLIGATION AND PRIVELEGE – BUT ONLY FOR THE PRIESTS – THE PRIESTS DON’T FEED YAHWEH, INSTEAD, YAHWEH FEEDS HIS PRIESTS). WHO ELSE ATE THIS HOLY BREAD OF THE PRESENCE – SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT A PRIEST? JESUS REFERS TO THIS BREAD … Mt 12:3 He (JESUS)said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?: THE OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVE REGARDING THIS CAN BE FOUND IN 1 SAM CH 21 THIS BREAD OF THE PRESENCE TIES IN WITH THE BREAD METAPHORS IN SCRIPTURE: THE DAILY MANNA GIVEN BY GOD IN THE WILDERNESS, THE DAILY BREAD REQUIRED FOR HUMAN LIFE AS DESCRIBED IN THE PSALMS, AND JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE Jn 6:47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” EXODUS CH 25 The Golden Lampstand Ex 25:31 “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it. 32And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 33three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 34And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 35and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 36Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 37 You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it. 38Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent of pure gold. 40 And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain. MOSES IS SEEING THIS IT WILL BE DARK IN THE TABERNACLE – A HEAVY TENT, SO THIS MENORAH/LAMPSTAND IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE LIGHT IN THE TABERNACLE THROUGH THE SEVEN LAMPS ON IT … HOW DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRST APPEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH ? Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit … Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from (1) him who is and who was and who is to come, and (2) from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5and (3) from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. FROM – 3 DIFFERENT SOURCES. WHO ARE / IS “THE SEVEN SPIRITS WHO ARE BEFORE HIS THRONE? Rev 3:1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. Rev 4:5...
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Exodus Chapter 24 Deep-Dive: The Covenant Confirmed
07/12/2025
Exodus Chapter 24 Deep-Dive: The Covenant Confirmed
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 24 The Covenant Confirmed – ISRAEL IS STILL CAMPED AT MT SINAI WHEN ISRAEL FIRST ARRIVED AT SINAI GOD SPOKE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS TO THEM OUT OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING … TERRIFYING … EX CH 19-20:21 … THEN THE PEOPLE ASKED MOSES TO REPRESENT THEM BEFORE YAHWEH … THEN DELIVER YAHWEH’S MESSAGE TO THEM … AND HE DID THAT IN CH 20:22 - 23 … DURING THAT TIME MOSES HAS GONE UP & DOWN THE MOUNTAIN A FEW TIMES … IN SOME CASES IT’S SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE, IN OTHER CASES IT’S INFERRED … AT THIS POINT IN CH 24 MOSES HAS COMMUNICATED GOD’S LAWS TO THE PEOPLE AND HE’S WITH THEM AT THE FOOT OF MT SINAI 1Then he YAHWEH said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu (AARON’S TWO OLDEST SONS), and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. 2Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.” 3Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” GOOD INTENTIONS AT THE BEGINNING IN LIGHT OF THE TERRIFYING DISPLAY ON MT SINAI 4And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. (MOSES HAS GOD’S AUTHORITY TO APPLY YAHWEH’S LAW TO THE PEOPLE … WRITING THE TORAH!) He MOSES rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars STONES, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. MOSES HAD THE YOUNG MEN DO THE HARD WORK OF PREPARING AND OFFERING THESE SACRIFICES … THIS IS BEFORE THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD WAS ESTABLISHED 6And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” THE FORMALIZATION OF THE COVENANT – GOD SPEAKING/GIVING IT, MOSES RECORDING IT/WRITING IT DOWN, MOSES AND THE NATION OFFERING SACRIFICES TO INSTITUTE IT THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST TIME BLOOD IS SPRINKLED ON THE PEOPLE … BLOOD IS RARELY SPRINKLED ON PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE … GOD IS OFFICIALLY APPLYING THE COVENANT HE MADE WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC & JACOB TO THE NEW NATION OF ISRAEL … THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT … THE LAWS OF GOD … THE COVENANT WAS TIED TO ISRAEL’S FAITHFUL OBEDIENCE. CONSIDER THIS SCENE AS WE VIEW IT WITH OUR NEW COVENANT DECODER GLASSES, OR, A RE-NEWED COVENANT INSTITUTED BY JESUS CONSIDER THAT IN THE PROCESS OF CONDEMNING JESUS TO DEATH ISRAEL’S HIGH PRIEST IRONICALLY STATED: Jn 1149But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.: AND THEN AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF PILATE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SAID: Mt 27:24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” 25And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” 26Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified. CONSIDER ALSO WHAT HEBREWS SAYS COMPARING MT SINAI TO THE SACRIFICE JESUS MADE ... Heb 12:18 A DESCRIPTION OF SINAI For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. 1 Pet 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. THIS NEW COVENANT HAD BEEN FORETOLD BY GOD AS HE WAS DISCIPLINING JUDAH WITH THE BABYLONIAN INVASION … THROUGH HIS PROPHET, JEREMIAH Jer 3131 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” SO, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS NEW COVENANT WHICH JEREMIAH PROMISED IS ONLY WITH JUDAH/ISRAEL … RIGHT? … LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT USING OUR NEW TESTAMENT DECODER RING Gal 3:23Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. SO, THE CHURCH IS PART OF ABRAHAM’S OFFSPRING … THE ISRAEL OF GOD … AND HIS LAW IS WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS … SO THAT WE CAN OBEY IT … IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS! BACK TO EX 24: 9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, (THE TWO ELDEST SONS OF AARON, WHO WILL BE KEY CHARACTERS WHEN THE TABERNACLE IS FINALLY CONSECRATED IN EARLY LEVITICUS) and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. (FEET – GOD IS APPEARING AS A MAN – A THEOPHANY – JESUS) 11And he YAHWEH did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. SIMILAR SCENE: Isaiah 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” 4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND DID NOT DIE … THE ONLY RIGHT ATTITUDE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS TERROR BECAUSE OF MY SINFULNESS. AND AWE. WHAT A POWERFUL SCENE. STUNNING … A MEAL THAT GOD SHARES – IN PERSON – WITH THE LEADERS OF HIS PEOPLE AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS FORMAL RELATIONSHIP – HIS COVENANT – WITH THEM. LET’S LOOK AT ANOTHER MEAL THAT GOD SHARED WITH THE LEADERS OF HIS PEOPLE... Lk 22:14 And when the hour came, he JESUS reclined at table, and the apostles with him. 15And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. 18For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” 19And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 20And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. 21 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. 22For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!” EVEN AT THE INSTITUTION OF THE NEW COVENANT JESUS-GOD WAS BETRAYED BY AN ENEMY FROM WITHIN HIS CLOSEST CIRCLE OF DISCIPLES & FRIENDS … THINK OF THIS NEW COVENANT AS THE OLD COVENANT NOW RE-NEWED THROUGH THE BLOOD/SACRIFICE OF JESUS … GOD SACRIFICING HIMSELF FOR HIS PEOPLE … NOW LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT ANOTHER MEAL THAT GOD WILL SHARE – IN PERSON – WITH ALL OF HIS PEOPLE: Rev 15:2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands (LES PAUL AND STRATOCASTER GUITARS !!). 3And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! 4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” Rev 19:4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” 5 And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.” 6 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. 9And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” … FOLLOWED BY A GLORIOUS MEAL THAT GOD PROVIDES FOR HIS CREATURES THAT INHABIT THE EARTHLY “HEAVENS”: Rev 19:11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure (THE RIGHTEOUS DEEDS OF THE SAINTS), were following him on white horses. 15From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. 17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, LET ME READ A DESCRIPTION OF THE BIRDS … OF HEAVEN (Gen 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”) BACK TO REVELATION CH 19 “Come, (BIRDS) gather for the great supper of God, 18to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” 19And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. 20And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. v13 JESUS CLOTHED IN A ROBE DIPPED IN BLOOD … WHOSE BLOOD? Ps 58:10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he (THE RIGHTEOUS – US) will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” Ps 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah 20Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. 21 But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. 22The Lord said, “I will bring them (HIS PEOPLE) back from Bashan, I will bring them (HIS PEOPLE) back from the depths of the sea, 23 that you (HIS PEOPLE) may strike your feet in their blood (HIS ENEMIES’ BLOOD), that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.” Is 63:1 (ISAIAH – DESCRIBING THE LORD), Who is this who comes from Edom in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I (THE LORD), speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.” 2 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress? 3 “I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel. 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come. 5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me. 6 I (THE LORD) trampled down the peoples in my anger; I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.” Lk 19:11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return … 14But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15When he returned, having received the kingdom, … 27 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’” SO, REV 19:13, JESUS IS COMING IN A ROBE DIPPED IN BLOOD … THAT WHOLE SCENE IS ONE OF GOD TAKING VENGEANCE ON HIS ENEMIES INCLUDING THE BIRDS GORGING ON THE FLESH OF THE SLAIN ENEMIES OF GOD, SO … WHOSE BLOOD IS ON JESUS’ ROBE? … THE BLOOD OF HIS ENEMIES LET’S RECAP THE MEALS GOD PROVIDES TO COMMEMORATE GREAT EVENTS SINAI – MOSES, AARON, NADAB & ABIHU (AARON’S SONS), AND 70 OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL EAT A MEAL WITH GOD TO CELEBRATE THE COVENANT OF THE LAW. THE LAST SUPPER/PASSOVER OF JESUS’ HUMAN MINISTRY … SHARED WITH HIS APOSTLES, THE FUTURE LEADERS OF THE CHURCH AT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB WHERE JESUS RECEIVES HIS BRIDE – THE CHURCH. FOLLOWED BY THE SLAUGHTER OF GOD’S ENEMIES – A MEAL OF CARRION THAT GOD PROVIDES FOR THE BIRDS, THAT USHERS IN THE BINDING OF SATAN AND THE BEGINNING OF THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST. WHAT’S THE THIRD MEAL GOD PROVIDES IN HISTORY TO CELEBRATE ANOTHER TURNING POINT IN HIS PLAN? BACK TO SINAI: Ex 24:11And he YAHWEH did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. NOTE THAT NONE OF THE MEN DESCRIBED IN THIS SCENE – THE MEAL WITH GOD - WILL ENTER THE PROMISED LAND, AND TWO OF THEM, AARON’S SONS NADAB AND ABIHU – DESIGNATED TO BE FUTURE HIGH PRIESTS, WILL BE KILLED BY THE HAND OF GOD IN A SHORT WHILE BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE IN GOD’S PRESENCE. REMEMBER THAT THE STORY OF ISRAEL IS ONE OF THE NATION’S CONTINUING SPIRITUAL FAILURE ALONG WITH THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESS OF A FEW INDIVIDUALS WHILE BEING SHEPHERDED BY THE LIVING GOD, YAHWEH. IT APPEARS THAT AT THE END OF THIS MEAL EVERYONE WENT BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, EXCEPT FOR MOSES, WHO WAS CALLED TO PROCEED HIGHER. 24:12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” 13So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.” 24:15Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. NOTE THIS! THE GLORY CLOUD COVERED THE MOUNTAIN FOR SIX DAYS … THEN … MOSES (AND JOSHUA) WERE INVITED IN … TO GOD’S REST. 17Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. IN SCRIPTURE 40 ALWAYS PRECEEDS A CHANGE … THE FLOOD WAS 40 DAYS BEFORE GOD RESTORED THE EARTH, JESUS WAS IN THE WILDERNESS 40 DAYS AFTER HIS BAPTISM / CROSSING THE REED SEA … AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY, ISRAEL WILL BE EXILED TO THE WILDERNESS FOR UNBELIEF AND DISOBEDIENCE BEFORE THEY ENTER THE PROMISED LAND, THE CHURCH WAITED 40 DAYS FROM THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS (PASSOVER) UNTIL THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GIVEN AT PENTECOST (FIRST FRUITS … 40 DAYS AFTER PASSOVER), NOW MOSES IS ON THE MOUNTAIN FOR 4O DAYS AT THE BEGINNING OF YAHWEH’S OFFICIAL COVENANT WITH ISRAEL. SO, MOSES GOES UP THE MOUNTAIN AND INTO A CLOUD WHICH COVERS THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, THEN THE MOUNTAIN SEEMS TO ERUPT INTO A VOLCANO – AN ALL CONSUMING FIRE – THE GLORY OF THE LORD. GOD CALLED MOSES UP SPECIFICALLY TO GIVE HIM THE FIRST WRITTEN (INSCRIPTURATED) COMMUNICATION DIRECTLY FROM GOD … THE TABLETS OF STONE WITH THE LAW AND...
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Exodus Chapter 23 Deep-Dive: Laws of Justice and Mercy
06/23/2025
Exodus Chapter 23 Deep-Dive: Laws of Justice and Mercy
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 23 1 “You shall not spread a false report. GOSSIP! You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, OR GOSSIP … IN DETAIL HERE. FALL IN WITH THE MANY – PEER PRESSURE, FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA – NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED DURING THE TRIAL SHOWS … THE JURY’S MIND IS ALREADY MADE UP. DON’T BE PARTIAL TO THE POOR IN LAWSUITS … THERE’S NO INHERENT VIRTUE IN BEING POOR ... LIBERATION THEOLOGY – WE MUST GIVE THE POOR AND OPPRESSED AN ADVANTAGE IN COURT BECAUSE THE RICH WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE. ALTHOUGH THIS SEEMS TO BE “FAIR,” THE BIBLE FORBIDS IT … NO SPECIAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE POOR OR THE RICH. 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him. THIS IS LIKE A MOM MAKING A RULE SPECIFIC TO A CHILD’S ACTIONS … YOU CAN NOT PUT THE HOSE DOWN THE DOG’S MOUTH!! GOD IS GETTING DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY … DON’T DO ANYTHING TO HARM YOUR NEIGHBOR OR ENEMY. AN EXHAUSTED DONKEY – HELP IT! A LOST OX OR DONKEY … BRING IT BACK TO THE OWNER … COMMON SENSE. THEY WERE A LOT LIKE US! VERY SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FOR A PEOPLE WHO WERE CONSTANTLY ON THE BRINK OF DOING BAD THINGS. Mt 5:43 JESUS SPEAKING … THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. DON’T FAVOR THE RICH 7Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. A TRIPLE THREAT HERE ABOUT PERVERTING JUSTICE … AND MORE ABOUT JUDGING FAIRLY AND RIGHTEOUSLY. GOD IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. 9 “You shall not oppress a sojourner STRANGER-FOREIGNER-RESIDENT ALIEN. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ISRAEL WILL BE LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD’S SUPERHIGHWAY. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF STRANGERS PASSING THROUGH … TREAT THEM FAIRLY … AS YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED. VERY SPECIFIC WITH A LOT OF DETAIL, BECAUSE THEY NEED IT … SOUND FAMILIAR … ? Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals 10 “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. EVERY 7th YEAR LEAVE THE LAND FALLOW SO THE POOR CAN HAVE THE PRODUCE … IT DOESN’T SAY TO HARVEST THE FIELDS AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR … NOTE THAT THE POOR HAD TO WORK FOR THE PRODUCE / GLEANINGS. THE SABBATH OCCURS EVERY WEEK (FRI SUNDOWN-SAT SUNDOWN), AND EVERY SEVENTH YEAR … SETTING MALE HEBREW SLAVES FREE, A YEAR’S REST FOR THE LAND, AND THE PRODUCE NATURALLY PRODUCED ON THAT LAND DURING THE FALLOW YEAR WILL BE FOOD FOR THE POOR AND THE BEASTS. THE WEEKLY AND YEARLY SABBATH IS A GIFT FOR THOSE NOT IN THE ABRAHAMIC / SINAI COVENANT, BUT IT’S PROVIDED BY THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE COVENANT – THE ISRAELITES. GOD IS PROVIDING COMMON GRACE TO THE SOJOURNERS, THE POOR, THE BEASTS, SLAVES, AND SO FORTH. NOTE THAT ISRAEL NEVER DID THESE SABBATICAL YEARS … 2 Ch 36:20 He NEBUCHADNEZAR took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. BACK TO EX 23 12 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed. EVERYONE RESTS … THIS IS AN ACT OF FAITH IN A SUBSISTENCE AGRARIAN ECONOMY … COMMON SENSE SAYS OUR LIVES DEPEND ON WORKING THE FIELDS. 13 “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips. DON’T EVEN MENTION THE NAMES OF OTHER GODS …IDOLATRY – THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS – WILL BE THE ONE SIN THAT ISRAEL WILL CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN UNTIL THEY’RE GIVEN INTO CAPTIVITY BY GOD. 14 “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread PASSOVER. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed EVERYONE PARTICIPATES IN THESE FESTIVALS. 16You shall keep the Feast of Harvest PENTECOST, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor BOOTHS-DAY OF ATONEMENT. 17Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God. MORE DETAIL ON THESE LATER …NOTE THAT THIS GUIDANCE IS GIVEN WELL BEFORE THE PEOPLE ARE IN THE LAND AND HAVE A HARVEST. 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. EVERYTHING TO BE EATEN BY THE PERSON PROVIDING THE SACRIFICE, TO BE EATEN BY THE PRIESTS, AND THE FAT PORTIONS TO BE BURNED UP ON THE ALTAR MUST BE COMPLETED AT THE TIME OF THE SACRIFICE – NOTHING WAS TO BE LEFT TO SPOIL, ALSO, NOTHING WITH LEAVEN IN IT COULD BE OFFERED WITH A SACRIFICE. LEAVEN WAS NOT FORBIDDEN IN ISRAEL AND IT COULD BE OFFERED AS FIRST-FRUITS BUT NOT AS PART OF A SACRIFICE. 19“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. RELATED TO PAGAN RITUALS, ESPECIALLY CANNIBALISM AND INFANT SACRIFICE …A LOT OF PAGAN SACRIFICES WERE FOCUSED ON FECUNDITY (PROSPERITY OF CROPS) AND FERTILITY – GROWING FAMILIES THROUGH HAVING MANY CHILDREN, AND GROWING HERDS … PROSPERITY … LAND AND CROPS WERE WEALTH. NOTE … AT THIS POINT GOD SUSPENDS THE GIVING OF THE LAW TO REMIND THE PEOPLE THAT SINAI IS TEMPORARY, THE GOAL IS THE PROMISED LAND 20 “Behold, I send an angel MESSENGER / REPRESENTATIVE before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. HE COULD FORGIVE YOUR SINS … BUT HE WON’T … YAHWEH’S NAME IS IN HIM … THIS IS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD … JESUS AS HE APPEARS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. THE ANGEL’S VOICE OR YAHWEH’S VOICE? … YES!! OBEY & GOD WILL BLESS … THIS IS NOT DEFACTO STATUS THAT GOD IS ATTRIBUTING TO ISRAEL … THE BLESSING OF GOD IS TIED TO ISRAEL FAITHFULLY OBEYING HIM!! 23 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, SPECIFIC PEOPLE GROUPS TARGETED BY GOD BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS 24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water (PURE & HEALTHY FOOD & WATER), and I will take sickness away from among you. 26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. FLEE FROM YOU 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. AS ISRAEL IS FAITHFULLY MOVING INTO THE LAND YAHWEH WILL DRIVE THOSE PEOPLES OUT …THERE WEREN’T ENOUGH ISRAELITES YET TO OCCUPY THE LAND … DIVINE FORSIGHT ... PROGRESSIVELY TRUSTING GOD TO GROW THE NATION GEOGRAPHICALLY AS THEIR POPULATION GROWS … THE COMMAND ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO ADAM AND EVE, AND FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS. HE’S GOING TO ALLOW THE CANAANITES TO CONTINUE TO FARM THE LAND AS ISRAEL GROWS AND EXPANDS AND EVENTUALLY CONQUERS THEM NOTE THAT THIS MIRRORS SANCTIFICATION IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE – GOD MAKES US MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS PROGRESSIVELY … WE GROW IN CHRIST THROUGH A PROCESS. ALSO, GOD IS GROWING HIS KINGDOM IN THE SAME WAY … 31And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ISRAEL NEVER HAD THESE BORDERS BECAUSE THEY WERE UNFAITHFUL AND DISOBEDIENT TO YAHWEH 32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; BE OBEDIENT … DRIVE THEM FROM THE LAND & DESTROY THEM for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”… AND IF YOU, ISRAEL, DO THE SAME THINGS ... I’LL DESTROY YOU, ALSO … AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 23 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 22 Deep-Dive: The Law Continued...
06/23/2025
Exodus Chapter 22 Deep-Dive: The Law Continued...
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS Ch 22 ISRAEL STILL AT MT SINAI Ex 22:1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. THEFT FOR PROFIT – ONE OF THE MOST GRAVE SINS IN TERMS OF THE STABILITY OF A SOCIETY. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL … REPAY AT 5 TIMES THE ORIGINAL VALUE. THINK ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS WITH BARS ON THE WINDOWS; FEAR, LIMITED INTERACTION WITH NEIGHBORS, IT CHOKES OUT SOCIETY AND LIMITS INVESTMENT … NO ONE WANTS TO START A BUSINESS THERE … LIMITED JOBS, PROSPERITY, SOCIAL GROWTH. Ex 22:2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 3but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. (BLOODGUILT ON THE HOMEOWNER IF HE STRUCK WHEN IT WAS DAYLIGHT) He (THE THIEF) shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. SELL HIM INTO SLAVERY IF HE’S UNABLE TO PAY FOR THE THEFT. Ex 22:5“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. Ex 22:6“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution. UNCONTROLLED FIRE WAS DEVASTATING IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS! IF YOU START A FIRE – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT! Ex 22:7“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he (THE THIEF) shall pay double. 8If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God (TAKE AN OATH BEFORE JUDGES) to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. 9For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God (JUDGES). The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor. Ex 22:10“If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it, 11an oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. The owner shall accept the oath (GIVEN BEFORE GOD), and he shall not make restitution. 12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. 13If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn. EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE GUY IS LYING … GOD IS THE JUDGE, NOT ME JUDGES ADJUDICATE … THEY JUDGE BASED ON THE EVIDENCE GIVEN. THIS IS THE FIRST LAW REQUIRING THAT AN OATH BE GIVEN AND THE OATH IS TO BE RESPECTED. TAKE A WITNESS AT HIS WORD … THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS. Ex 22:14“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor (FOR A FEE), and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. 15If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee. DETAILS … JUST WHAT ISRAEL NEEDS … LIFE IS LIVED IN THE DETAILS. THIS STOPS ENDLESS RETRIBUTION … LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IN ACTION Ex 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. 17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins. HERE’S HOW TO THINK ABOUT THIS … CONSIDER AN 18 YEAR OLD CHURCH YOUTH LEADER WHO SEDUCES A 16 YR OLD GIRL IN HIS YOUTH GROUP AND GETS HER PREGNANT … AND SAYS, “OH, WHAT HAVE I DONE?” THE ANSWER IS … “YOU’VE TAKEN A WIFE!” LOT OF WISDOM IN SHOTGUN WEDDINGS. THIS IS SEDUCTION – NOT RAPE. NOTE, THE FATHER HAS FINAL SAY IN THIS, BUT EITHER MARRIAGE OR RESTITUTION MUST BE MADE. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BETROTHAL WAS MARRIAGE … WAITING FOR CONSUMATION. VIRGINITY WAS TO BE EXPECTED AND RESPECTED … ONCE A WOMAN WAS NO LONGER A VIRGIN SHE COULD NOT MAKE A LEGAL MARRIAGE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD … AND HER FUTURE WAS GOING TO BE BEGGING OR PROSTITUTION … IF A MAN TOOK A WOMAN’S VIRGINITY – HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER FOR LIFE. OUR MODERN SOCIETY HAS TRIED TO DO ALL OF THIS IN A BETTER WAY … AVOIDING REPRESSIVE SEXUAL MORALITY – YES – AND LOOK WHAT WE HAVE NOW! BACK THEN MARRIAGE WAS CELEBRATED AND ANY SEXUAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN WAS OSTRACIZED BY SOCIETY … IT WAS FROWNED UPON, PEOPLE FELT SHAMED, THERE WAS A SOCIAL PRICE TO PAY. IT’S THE TOTAL OPPOSITE NOW UP TO HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE BEING LEGALIZED BY MOST GOVERNMENTS WITHIN WESTERN CIVILIZATION. TODAY, NO SEXUAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IS PUNISHED. THE BEDROCK OF CIVILIZATION IS CRUMBLING. EVEN THE CHURCH IS BEGINNING TO CONDONE SAME SEX MARRIAGE. FOR ISRAEL AT SINAI – THEY NEEDED THIS GUIDANCE!! EVEN IN THE CHURCH … NOTE HOW MUCH OF NEW TESTAMENT GUIDANCE IS DIRECTED AT SEXUAL SIN – SO, THERE HAD TO BE A LOT OF IT GOING ON … TODAY, ALSO … Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Acts 15:29 (JERUSALEM COUNCIL’S GUIDANCE TO NEW GENTILE BELIEVERS) That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.” 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 1 Corinthians 6:9-Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:15-16 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 1 Corinthians 10:8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 2 Corinthians 12:21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced. Galatians 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Ephesians 4:17Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 5:3-5 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Revelation 2:14-16 But I have a few things against you (Church in Pergamum): you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you (Church in Thyatira), that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. FOR THOSE OF US WHO THINK THIS PASSAGE IS REFERRING TO FALSE PROPHETS? … HOW MANY OF THE SCRIPTURES WE JUST READ WARN AGAINST THE VERY THING WE SEE THIS “JEZEBEL” DOING … SEX CLUBS IN THE CHURCH ?!? … YES! TWO OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN REVELATION ARE WARNED ABOUT SEXUAL IMMORALITY! Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (COWARDLY … THE GENERATIONS THAT FOUGHT THE TWO MOST DESTRUCTIVE WARS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD … WWI & WWII … HAVE PRODUCED THE MOST COWARDLY AND IMMORAL GENERATIONS IN HISTORY … COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS!!) BACK TO EXODUS 22 Ex 22:18 “You shall not permit a sorceress to live. (KING SAUL & THE WITCH OF ENDOR 1 SAM CH 28) NOTE – THERE WERE NO “PRIESTESSES” IN THE ANCIENT WORLD … WOMEN DOING WHAT MALE “PRIESTS” DID … “PRIESTESSES” WERE SHRINE PROSTITUTES WHERE ONE WOULD PAY THE PRICE TO THE “TEMPLE” OF THE FALSE GOD/IDOL, THEN HAVE SEX WITH THE WOMAN … MEN ALSO WERE SHRINE PROSTITUTES, AND THERE WERE MEN WHO WERE SORCERERS. Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. 15Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. BACK TO EXODUS CH 22 Ex 22:19 “Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death. ASSOCIATED WITH BAAL WORSHIP & SOME OTHER PAGAN RITUALS. Ex 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction DEATH. Ex 22:21 “You shall not wrong a sojourner FOREIGNER or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. (EMPATHY) 22 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me (PRAYER), I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. FOREIGNERS WERE POWERLESS, LIKE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS … HOW DO YOU TREAT THEM? Deut 24:19 “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS LAW IN ACTION IS THE BOOK OF RUTH RUTH AND NAOMI WERE IN A DIFFICULT AND NEARLY DESPERATE SITUATION, YET RUTH TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE LAW GOD HAD LAID OUT … GLEANING IN THE FIELDS, AND GOD PROVIDED FOR THEM. BOAZ WAS A GOOD MAN, RIGHTEOUS IN THE WAYS OF GOD, HE WASN’T GREEDY OR STINGY, HE LOOKED OUT FOR RUTH AS SHE WAS GLEANING HIS FIELD AND GOD BLESSED HIM. HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO US CONSIDERING OUR CURRENT DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES? AM I TRUSTING GOD AND DOING WHAT I CAN IN THE MIDST OF THE FAMINE? THE NEW TESTAMENT’S COMMENT ON WIDOWS AND ORPHANS James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. BACK TO EX 22 Ex 22:25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. 26If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. OK TO LEND MONEY TO THE POOR … BUT NOT WITH INTEREST ... DON’T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE … WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM A POOR PERSON? THIS IS JESUS’ PERSPECTIVE: Lk 6:30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. DON’T EVEN CONSIDER LOANING MONEY … JUST GIVE IT TO THE POOR. Deut 23:19 “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother (ISRAELITE), interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 20You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Ex 22:28 “You shall not revile God (ELOHIM – SPIRITUAL BEINGS, CAN MEAN ANCESTORS AS IN SAMUEL BEING CALLED UP FROM THE DEAD), nor curse a ruler of your people. RULERS & ANCESTORS … THOSE IN AUTHORITY OVER YOU Ex 22:29 “You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. NOT ALLOWED TO HOARD YOUR HARVEST IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE PRICE … PUT YOUR PRODUCE UP FOR SALE AS SOON AS IT’S HARVESTED OR THE WINE IS PRESSED. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me. THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS TO BE REDEEMED, THE FIRSTBORN OX OR SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED. Ex 22:31 “You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs. NO SCAVENGING … DON’T EAT ROADKILL … GOD IS NOT A SCAVENGER OR PREDATOR … YOU’RE MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE … TRUST GOD AND BE KIND, FAITHFUL AND GENEROUS … LIKE GOD. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 22 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Exodus Chapter 21 Deep-Dive: The Law is Given
06/23/2025
Exodus Chapter 21 Deep-Dive: The Law is Given
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 21 ISRAEL IS STILL AT MT SINAI … Laws About Slaves EVERY NATION ON EARTH DURING THE BRONZE & IRON AGES PRACTICED SLAVERY … GOD IS GIVING DIRECTION TO HIS PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THE WORLD CULTURE OF THAT TIME. SLAVERY INCLUDED DEBT RELIEF … SELLING YOURSELF OR ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN, THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS AN AGRARIAN ECONOMY … LOT OF FARM LABOR NEEDED, ALSO, THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ONLY NATIONS THAT ABOLISHED SLAVERY WERE CHRISTIAN SLAVERY IS STILL A MODERN ISSUE … LOT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING STILL TAKING PLACE! IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THERE WAS VIRTUALLY NO MIDDLE CLASS. MOST PEOPLE WERE SERVANTS/SLAVES. THERE WERE FEW RICH, AND ALSO SOME MERCHANTS AND SKILLED WORKERS. WHOLE NATIONS WERE SLAVES SUCH AS THE SLAVIC PEOPLE IN EUROPE (POLAND) SUBJECT TO GERMAN TRIBES ON ONE SIDE & RUSSIANS ON THE OTHER, AND ALL SUBJECT TO GENGHIS KAHN’S INVASION. THE MIDDLE CLASS BEGAN TO DEVELOP IN EUROPE IN THE 8th -12th CENTURIES. STILL, MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE AT LEAST SERVANTS, INDENTURED SERVANTS OR SLAVES. BECOMING A SLAVE WAS A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. GOD IS USING ISRAEL TO EVENTUALLY MODIFY WORLD-WIDE PRACTICES. ABRAHAM’S WEALTH INCLUDED SERVANTS AND SLAVES BOUGHT WITH HIS MONEY: Gen 14:14When Abram heard that his kinsman (LOT) had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. Gen 17:23Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. ABRAHAM HAD SLAVES OR SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH HIS MONEY. Back to Exodus Ex 21:1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God (ELOHIM-SPIRITUAL BEINGS-ANCESTORS/SAMUEL – THE SLAVE BECOMES A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD RECOGNIZED BY GOD & THE SAINTS / ANCESTORS), and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. THE SLAVE MAKES THIS DECISION! THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. THINK ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF REDEMPTION GOD HAS CAUSED TO HAPPEN THROUGH HISTORY: OT Abraham / Isaac / Israel / law / prophets / King David … until … John / Jesus God Incarnate in one man & the Holy Spirit God inhabiting and empowering all true believers which results in changed lives of fruitful righteousness – like a butterfly: caterpillar/OT/Israel / chrysalis/Jesus / butterfly/NT & the church the body and bride of Christ. PAUL’S VIEW ON SLAVERY/BOND-SERVITUDE (indentured servants): Rom 1:1 Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, Rom 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Cor 7:17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 18Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 19For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 20Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21Were you a bondservant (slave) when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 22For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. JACOB/ISRAEL’S SON, JOSEPH (WHO RECEIVED THE DOUBLE PORTION RESERVED FOR THE FIRSTBORN - MANNASSEH / EPHRAIM) – SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY HIS BROTHERS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE WORLD … GOD WAS AWARE OF IT WHEN IT WAS DONE … GOD ORDAINED IT! Gen 50:20 JOSEPH SPEAKING AS SECOND IN COMMAND IN EGYPT As for you (JOSEPH’S BROTHERS WHO SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY), you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. IF JOSEPH HAD NOT “DONE HIS BEST” WHILE SERVING POTIPHER AND IN PRISON, IF HE HAD SULKED, REBELLED AND “FOUGHT FOR HIS FREEDOM” … GOD’S PLAN WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED. SCRIPTURE SEEMS TO BE SAYING THAT GOD IS MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN HOW WE BEHAVE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES GOD HAS PUT US IN, RATHER THAN, SETTING US FREE FROM NEGATIVE SITUATIONS … LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS !! Heb 5:7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. SUFFERING IS PART OF THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Heb 12:11For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. James 1:2 (THE HALF-BROTHER OF JESUS) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 1 Pet 1:1 (THE ROCK ON WHICH JESUS BUILT HIS CHURCH … PETER’S FIRST LETTER TO THE CHURCH) Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. BACK TO EX 21 7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do (AFTER 7 YEARS – SHE’S THERE FOR LIFE IF SHE WAS PURCHASED TO HAVE A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ONE WHO PURCHASED HER … SHE BECOMES A CONCUBINE OR WIFE). 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed (PURCHASED BY ANOTHER ISRAELITE). He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights (CONJUGAL). 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A FATHER SELLS HIS DAUGHTER IN MOST CASES BECAUSE HE CAN’T FEED HER … THE PRIMARY ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND HAVING CHILDREN GUARANTEED HER VALUE AND/OR PROTECTION AS SHE AGED. WE HAVE TO GET PAST OUR MODERN WESTERN VIEW OF SEXUALITY … ROMANTIC LOVE MAY HAVE EXISTED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BUT MOST PEOPLE WERE FOCUSED ON SIMPLE SURVIVAL, AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE FAMILY UNIT … HAVING MULTIPLE CHILDREN WAS CRITICAL FOR THAT. THIS AMAZING LAW PROTECTED WOMEN IN ISRAEL FROM BECOMING SEX SLAVES. A WOMAN WHO WAS BOUGHT TO BECOME A CONCUBINE WAS GUARANTEED PROPER TREATMENT … JUST AS BILHAH (RACHEL’S MAIDSERVANT) AND ZILPAH (LEAH’S MAIDSERVANT) WERE TREATED BY JACOB; ALTHOUGH CONCUBINES THEY WERE TREATED AS WIVES AND THEIR SONS WERE EQUAL TO RACHEL AND LEAH’S SONS … AND THEY WERE LATER LISTED AS WIVES OF JACOB. MARITAL RITES PROTECTED – EVEN FOR THESE CONCUBINES: FOOD, DRINK, CLOTHING, SHELTER, CONJUGAL, INHERITANCE, ETC. REMEMBER, GOD IS DEALING WITH HUMAN CULTURE AS IT WAS AT THAT TIME – WORKING TO TRANSFORM IT FROM SOMETHING ALIENATED FROM GOD. GIVING REGULATIONS TO REQUIRE HUMANE TREATMENTS OF SLAVES WAS A STARTING POINT. BACK TO EX 21 Ex 21:12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death (MURDER). 13But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand (SOVEREIGNTY – GOD DECIDES WHEN PEOPLE WILL DIE … BUT THE ASSAILANT DIDN’T PLAN TO KILL THE MAN), then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee (CITIES OF REFUGE - SANCTUARY). 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. Ex 21:15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. JUST STRIKING – YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO HARM THEM … 16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. KIDNAPPING: JOSEPH’S BROTHERS SELLING HIM INTO SLAVERY. THIS IS THE TORAH’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE SLAVE TRADE … STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. ISRAEL IS STILL AT SINAI, MOSES IS RECEIVING … DIRECTLY FROM GOD … REVELATION NOT EVOLUTION … ADDITIONAL LAWS THAT OFFER GREATER AND GREATER DETAIL … EXPANDING ON THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN TELL THAT GOD LOVES THEM BY THE LAWS HE’S GIVING THEM. LAWLESSNESS = ANARCHY & CHAOS = HORROR. LAW & ORDER PRESERVES HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY. GOD IS BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. THERE’S ALSO THE ASPECT THAT GOD KNOWS THESE ARE A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE SO HE’S TRYING TO FENCE THEM IN TO KEEP THEM ON THE PROPER PATH … THINK OF A PARENT OF A REBELLIOUS CHILD WHO IS TRYING TO GET THEM TO OBEY … MORE AND MORE LIMITATIONS IN ORDER TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE LAW IS GOOD … GOOD … GOOD! ISRAEL NEEDS THESE LAWS TO PROTECT THE NATION, THE SOCIETY, THE PRACTICE OF THEIR RELIGION, THE POOR, AND THE WEAK. GOD IS MAKING ISRAEL INTO A NATION THAT’S DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS … HIS OWN POSSESSION. IN ORDER FOR THEM TO PLEASE GOD AND ULTIMATELY SERVE THEIR PAGAN NEIGHBORS THEY MUST FOLLOW THESE LAWS … THEY MUST BE DIFFERENT. THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN AT SINAI (NUM CH 1) KEEP IN MIND THE DIFFICULTY OF EXPRESSING LARGE NUMBERS IN THE ANCIENT HEBREW LANGUAGE … WE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER WAS BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE MILLING AROUND WITH LITTLE TO DO, ALSO, THEY HAD NUMEROUS HERDS WITH THEM. THESE LAWS SEEM BIZARRE TO US BUT THEY WERE VERY DETAILED AND FOCUSED ON WHAT ISRAEL NEEDED AT THAT TIME. THEY NEED VERY, VERY SPECIFIC GUIDANCE … TECHNICAL. THEY NEED TO LEARN TO DRIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DOUBLE YELLOW LINES ON THE ROADS. TO PARK WITHIN THE LINES AND DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT. BUT THAT’S HOW WE LIVE LIFE – BY THE DETAILS. OUR MODERN LAWS ARE DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE DETAILED LAWS THAT GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL. GOD’S REVELATION BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO GUIDE A LOT OF PEOPLE. THIS WAS NO LONGER A FAMILY OR SMALL TRIBE … THEY’RE BECOMING A TRUE NATION. LAWS ARE WHAT CREATE CIVILIZATION. THE OPPOSITE OF OR ABSENCE OF LAW IS CHAOS. ALL GREAT CIVILIZATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE GUIDED BY LAW. ROME’S PAX ROMANA (ROMAN PEACE), GAVE STRUCTURE AND PEACE DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST AND THE EARLY CHURCH. ALTHOUGH GOD DID USE ROME TO ALLOW PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH, OVERALL, ROME WAS A GOOD THING AND PROVIDED PEACE & PROSPERITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. MOST RECENTLY IN WORLD HISTORY THE BRITISH EMPIRE SPREAD COMMON LAW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS THEIR EMPIRE SPREAD – AT ONE POINT THE SUN NEVER SET ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE BRITISH EMPIRE CONDONED SLAVERY UNTIL THE BRITISH SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT ENDED THE PRACTICE IN MOST OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY AND THIS HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON COLONIAL SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. CONFUCIAN CHINA, THE CODE OF HAMMURABI … THESE ANCIENT LAW CODES ARE VERY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE LAW GIVEN TO ISRAEL DUE TO COMMON GRACE. ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE SIMILAR AND CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE. ALL PEOPLE HAVE A CERTAIN HUNGER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS OR AT LEAST TO BE TREATED FAIRLY BE THEIR NEIGHBORS AND GOVERNMENT. BACK TO EXODUS / SINAI WE WILL SEE A LOT OF “DEATH PENALTY” LAWS AS WE MOVE THROUGH TORAH, HOWEVER, VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL WILL BE PUT TO DEATH THROUGH THESE LAWS … THERE WAS ROOM FOR REPENTANCE WITHIN THE LAW & THE CHARACTER OF GOD … THINK OF KING DAVID SLEEPING WITH BATHSHEBA, URIAH’S WIFE, AND SHE BECAME PREGNANT, THEN TO COVER IT UP DAVID ARRANGES TO HAVE URIAH KILLED IN A BATTLE WITH THE AMMONITES … DAVID REPENTED AND WAS RESTORED … BUT … THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES THAT GOD CAUSED DIRECTLY 2 Sam 12:9 NATHAN THE PROPHET CONFRONTING DAVID Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” 13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE DAVID ACCEPTED THIS DISCIPLINE FROM THE LORD AS WHAT HE DESERVED … HE REPENTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER … AND WE CAN SEE THAT IN THE PSALMS HE WROTE. THESE “DEATH PENALTIES” EXISTED FOR PEOPLE WHO REFUSED TO REPENT … SOMEONE INVOLVED IN THE SLAVE TRADE WHO REFUSED TO STOP … SAME AS MURDER … DEATH. ANOTHER EXAMPLE; ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN … Gen 2:16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” … DEATH PENALTY … BUT DID GOD PUT THEM TO DEATH? … HOWEVER, THERE WERE DIRE DEATH-LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT RESULTED … DESIGNED TO DRIVE THEM TO REPENTANCE … THE MESSAGE OF THE WHOLE BIBLE IS … REPENT & TURN BACK TO GOD … OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER AGAIN … EVERY MAN OWES GOD A DEATH. BACK TO EX 21 … Ex 21:17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY IS AN ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL PART OF ISRAEL SURVIVING. LEARNING OBEDIENCE THROUGH THE FAMILY STRUCTURE. CURSING A PARENT … SPOKEN WORDS ARE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL James 3:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. BACK TO EX 21 … YOU CAN TELL WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THE PEOPLE BY THE TYPES OF LAWS GOD WAS GIVING … SOME ROUGH STUFF! Ex 21:18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, 19then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. FIRST LAW THAT MENTIONS RESTITUTION – OPPOSED TO RETRIBUTION … GOD IS WORKING TO LIMIT WHAT IS DONE AS A RESULT OF THE OFFENSE. DO WHAT’S FAIR TO RESTORE THE DAMAGE DONE. Ex 21:20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged MURDER. 21But if the slave survives a day or two (AND POSSIBLY DIES FROM SOMETHING ELSE), he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money (POSSESSION). Ex 21:22“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. NOTE THAT HARM FOR HARM, EYE FOR EYE AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH WAS DESIGNED TO LIMIT RETRIBUTION … SO THAT LIFE DIDN’T TURN INTO ENDLESS UNRESTRAINED REVENGE FUEDS THE DEATH OF THE UNBORN CHILD IS CONSIDERED MURDER … LIFE FOR LIFE. THIS IS THE FIRST LAW THAT MENTIONS JUDGES … Ex 21:26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. 27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or...
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Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 2: The Ten Commandments Continued...
06/23/2025
Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 2: The Ten Commandments Continued...
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Back to the giving of the law: Ex 20:15 “(9)You shall not steal.” Which of Jesus’ parables best addresses “theft?” The Parable of the Vineyard & Tenants: Mk 12:1-12, or, Mt 21:33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. (GOD’S EXPECTED PROFIT FROM LEASING HIS VINEYARD – THE BASIS OF THIS PARABLE IS CLEARLY THEFT ! 35And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. BEWARE IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THEFT BEING DONE BY SOMEONE ELSE THAT WILL RESULT IN GAIN FOR YOU !! GOD SEES EVERYTHING … AND JUDGES OUR MOTIVATIONS THE EXPECTATION AND RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE: Deut 19:14 “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary stone which the ancestors have set.” Deut 27:17: “Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.” Prov 22:28 “Do not move the ancient boundary which your fathers have set.” Prov 23:10 “Do not move the ancient boundary or go into the fields of the fatherless.” Job 24:2 a list of those who do evil: “Some remove the landmarks; they seize and devour flocks.” THE RIGHT TO PRIVATE PROPERTY IS ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR SOCIETY … THIS CAN NOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED ! DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DAYDREAMS ABOUT “GETTING EVEN” WITH THE RICH, OR NOT PAYING THEIR DEBTS OR TAXES? HERE ARE SOME TYPES OF THEFT YOU MIGHT NOT THINK ARE RELATED TO “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”: White Collar Crimes: use of deceit for financial gains, such as Ponzi schemes; securities fraud; tax evasion; and embezzlement. Usually committed by persons hired for the management of a business or government entity. Bribery: which is the act of accepting or offering something of value in exchange for influence or power in connection to an elected position or public employment. Fraud: such as wire fraud; tax evasion; insurance fraud; and identity theft. Embezzlement: when an individual steals money or property that he or she has been entrusted to manage. Identity Theft: when someone unlawfully uses another's personally identifying information (such as a Social Security Number) to commit other crimes, such as credit card fraud. Money Laundering: a crime involving the movement of illicit money and other gains into legitimate channels in order to disguise the money's illegal source and thwart tax officials. Mortgage Fraud: illegal schemes related to the misrepresentation or misstatement of mortgage documents for the purpose of defrauding another party, such as a lender or a homeowner. (SOMEONE IS LENDING THE MONEY !) Racketeering / RICO: (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization) laws, which make it a crime for a criminal organization to profit from otherwise legitimate business operations. Securities Fraud: a crime in which a corporate officer, for example, makes misleading statements about the company’s stock performance or discloses confidential information related to its stock. Tax Evasion / Fraud: The crime of not paying one’s legally required share of either federal or state taxes, which is punished severely and can lead to asset forfeiture or prison. WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT PAYING TAXES? Lk 20:25He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT PAYING OUR DEBTS: Mt 6:12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. WE OWE WHAT WE OWE … I OWE MY DEBTS !! PAUL’S TAKE ON “WHITE COLLAR CRIMES” Rom 13:7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. 8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. PAUL TIES “PAYING WHAT YOU OWE” TO THE WORKS OF DARKNESS AND “PUTTING ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” PAUL’S TAKE ON THEFT IN THE CHURCH 1 Cor 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. STAY WITH ME … YOU’LL SEE HOW THEFT IS TIED TO THIS: 3For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. THIS IS A PICTURE OF WHY AND HOW GOD USES SATAN TO DRAW US BACK TO HIMSELF. PS 78:32 In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe. 33So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror. 34When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly. 35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer. BACK TO 1 CORINTHIANS 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. HERE’S THE CONNECTION TO “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”: 9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” 6:1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers! 9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. PAUL’S TAKE ON THEFT IN HIS LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS: Eph 4:25Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. THINK OF THIS FOLLOWING PASSAGE AS WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT ROBBING FROM CLOSE FRIENDS OR FAMILY … Pr 25:24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys. JESUS’ PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD COMPARED TO “THIEVES & ROBBERS” … THIS PARABLE IS CLEARLY FOR THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES THE SETUP FOR THE PARABLE BEGINS IN JN CH 9 – THE MAN WHOM JESUS HAD HEALED BY PUTTING MUD ON HIS EYES ON THE SABBATH: Jn 9:35Jesus heard that they had cast him out (FROM THE SYNAGOGUE), and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” 38He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains. 10: 1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he (A SHEPHERD) who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2But he (A SHEPHERD) who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him (THE SHEPHERD WHO ENTERS BY THE DOOR – JESUS) the gatekeeper opens … WHO IS THE GATEKEEPER ?!? … THE FATHER – WHO OWNS THE SHEEP!! The sheep hear his (THE SHEPHERD WHO ENTERS BY THE DOOR – JESUS) voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. 7So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep (EQUATING HIMSELF WITH THE GATEKEEPER – THE FATHER FROM V3). 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. WHY DID JESUS NOT SAY THEY WERE FALSE PROPHETS OR DECEIVERS … HE CALLS THEM THIEVES AND ROBBERS! 9I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES JESUS WAS REFERENCING: Jer 23: 1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord. 3Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord. THIS IS A MESSIANIC PASSAGE: 5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’ JESUS WAS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL TO YAHWEH – MY SHEEP & I AM THE GATE !!! Ez 34:1The word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 3You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. 4The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. 5So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; 6they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them. 7“Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep, 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them. ROBBERS AND THIEVES !! 11 “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out … THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT HIMSELF !!!!! REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT HIS OTHER SHEEP WHO WERE FROM A DIFFERENT FOLD? … 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. 17“As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. 18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 19And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet? IN THIS SECTION LISTEN FOR THE “I WILL” PASSAGES … YAHWEH IS THE “I” … JESUS ALSO CLAIMS THAT SAME “I” … 20“Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, 22 I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the Lord; I have spoken. THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ALL KNEW THESE TWO PASSAGES … THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING – THAT THEY WERE THE BAD SHEPHERDS WHO WERE ONLY INTERESTED IN FEEDING THEMSELVES – THE THIEVES AND ROBBERS WHO JESUS SPOKE ABOUT, AND THAT JESUS WAS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL TO YAHWEH! Back to Exodus / Sinai / God speaking directly to the people THUNDERING FROM THE MOUNTAIN IN DARK CLOUDS, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING … giving them the 10 commandments: Ex 20:16 (10)You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor: TESTIFYING IN COURT! Pr 19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. Pr 19:9 A false witness will not go...
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Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 1: The Ten Commandments
06/23/2025
Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 1: The Ten Commandments
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 20 – the Ten Commandments given by God speaking OUT OF THUNDER directly to the people from Mt Sinai. THERE ARE ACTUALLY ONLY 9 COMMANDMENTS IN THE TEXT, HOWEVER, DIFFERENT GROUPS DIVIDE THEM UP DIFFERENTLY IN ORDER TO MAKE 10. THE ISRAELITES REFERRED TO THEM AS THE 10 “WORDS” Yahweh is creating a suzerain covenant with Israel … a type of agreement in which a powerful ruler (the suzerain) offers protection and benefits to a lesser party (the vassal) in exchange for loyalty and obedience. This form of covenant often includes a recap of what the suzerain or emperor has done for the vassal along with stipulations, blessings for compliance, and curses for disobedience, reflecting a hierarchical relationship. 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “(1)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. WHAT YAHWEH DID FOR ISRAEL … GOD’S ABOUT TO LAY DOWN THE LAW … THIS IS A STIFF NECKED AND SPIRITUALLY WEAK PEOPLE THAT HE’S DEALING WITH SO HE ABBREVIATES HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM TO; HEY, REMEMBER JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO … THE STATE OF SLAVERY THAT YOU WERE IN AND ALL THE PLAGUES I PLACED ON EGYPT - I’M THE ONE WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF SLAVERY. GOD IS SAYING … LISTEN UP !! THE ISRAELITES COUNTED THIS AS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” 3 “(2)You shall have no other gods before me: OR, IN MY PRESENCE, OR BEFORE MY FACE … THE SECOND COMMANDMENT TO ADDRESS ISRAEL’S PRIMARY SPIRITUAL PROBLEM UNTIL THEY’RE SENT INTO EXILE BY GOD 700-900 YEARS AFTER THIS … NO DIVIDED LOYALTY! ARE THERE “OTHER GODS?” ABSOLUTELY THERE ARE! Ex 12:12 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord (THE CREATOR/SOVEREIGN GOD OVER ALL CREATION). 2 Cor 4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. AT THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS; Lk 4: 5And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’” JESUS DID NOT DENY THAT SATAN HAD THIS AUTHORITY! Jn 19:10So Pilate said to him (Jesus), “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.” WHO DELIVERED THIS AUTHORITY TO SATAN & PILATE? YAHWEH DID. YAHWEH IS THE CREATOR AND FINAL AUTHORITY IN ALL THINGS, HOWEVER, SATAN AND HIS REBELLIOUS ANGELIC COLLEAGUES DO HAVE AUTHORITY THAT HAS BEEN GRANTED THEM BY GOD … AND GOD ALLOWS THE FORCES OF GOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL TO BATTLE EACH OTHER IN WAYS WE CAN’T UNDERSTAND – TO YAHWEH’S PURPOSE. Dan 10:20 (Gabriel speaking to Daniel about Daniel’s prayer that Israel might return from exile) 20Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. 21But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince. WAR IN HEAVEN, BETWEEN ANGELIC BEINGS (gods), SOME FAITHFUL TO YAHWEH FIGHTING OTHERS IN REBELLION, BUT ALL OF THEM ULTIMATELY SUBJECT TO THE ALL POWERFUL CREATOR GOD, YAHWEH. THIS HAS AN IMPACT ON WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR WORLD … BATTLES BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOD AND THE FORCES OF SATAN. IN THE END – GOD WINS & WE WIN. BUT THERE WILL BE PAIN AND SUFFERING FOR BELIEVERS IN THE PROCESS, JUST AS THERE WAS FOR JESUS. THIS IS A MYSTERY WHICH CAN ONLY BE SEEN WITH GLIMPSES “BEHIND THE CURTAIN” BRIEFLY GIVEN TO US BY GOD THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. HOWEVER, Paul said to the Corinthians: 1 Cor 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! WORSHIP NO ONE BUT YAHWEH/JESUS, FEAR AND OBEY NO ONE BUT HIM. Back to Exodus 20: 4 “(3)You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. 5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. THE TABERNACLE INCLUDED LIKENESSES OR “PICTURES” OF THINGS IN HEAVEN SUCH AS THE CHERUBIM (Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.) THE KEY TO THIS COMMANDMENT ISN’T THE ARTWORK – IT’S WORSHIPING THE ART, OR ANY OTHER OBJECT. 2 Kings 18:4 (King Hezekiah) He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). A “JEALOUS” GOD … ? Is 54: 5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. THIS IS AN ANALOGY, OR A METAPHOR. Ez Ch 16 – God describes Israel as His wife who is offering herself to other Gods and nations as a prostitute. The book of Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom (prostitution) and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. THE REST OF THE BOOK DESCRIBES HOSEA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOMER, HIS PROSTITUTE WIFE – A PICTURE OF HOW ISRAEL WAS TREATING GOD AND GOD’S JEALOUS REACTION. God divorced Israel (THIS IS A PARABLE, OR AN ANOLOGY): Is 50: 1Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother’s (Israel’s) certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Jer 3:6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. … VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Deut 24:16 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin. Ez 18:30 (WHOLE CHPT UP TO THIS POINT IS THAT EVERYONE JUDGED FOR THEIR OWN SINS!) “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. 31Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! SO WHAT DOES “VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS ON THE CHILDREN” MEAN? IN MOST SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY IF YOUR FATHER OR GRANDFATHER WAS A DRUNK, OR A THIEF, OR A CRIMINAL – IT AFFECTED THE FAMILY … THE FAMILY HAS TO BEAR THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCE OF THE SIN. Back to the commandments in Exodus 20: 7 “(4)You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Lee Harvey Oswald reported for duty at the Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego on October 26, 1956, He was trained in the use of the M-1 rifle. The NCO in charge of the marksmanship training unit, said, “In the Marine Corps he is a good shot, slightly above average … and as compared to the average male … throughout the United States, he is an excellent shot.” On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, using the marksmanship skills the Marines taught him he shot and killed the president of the United States, John F Kennedy, he took the name “Marine” in vain. Lk 6:12 In these days he (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor … chosen by Jesus, yet, he became a traitor … he took the name of the Lord (follower of Jesus) in vain. IMAGINE THAT WE HAD “FOLLOWER OF JESUS” TATTOOED ON OUR FOREHEADS – WOULD WE BE LIVING UP TO “TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD?” WHEN GOD CHOSE ISRAEL, AND ISRAEL AGREED TO BE GOD’S SPECIAL PEOPLE THE ISRAELITES “TOOK THE NAME OF THE LORD” … JUST A FEW VERSES BEFORE THIS SCENE IN EXODUS; 19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 7So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. 8 All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” Matthew Henry described five categories of actions that constitute taking God's name in vain: 1) hypocrisy – making a profession of God's name – claiming to be a Christian, but not living up to that profession. 2) covenant breaking – if one makes promises to God yet does not carry out the promised actions; 3) rash swearing; 4) false swearing; and 5) using the name of God lightly and carelessly, for charms or spells, jest or sport. Ex 23:20 YAHWEH SPEAKING TO MOSES THREE CHAPTERS AFTER SINAI “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression (FORGIVE YOUR SIN), for my name is in him. 22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. HE’S TALKING ABOUT JESUS WHO HAS YAHWEH’S NAME IN HIM 2 Chronicles 7:16 SOLOMON IS DEDICATING THE TEMPLE AND GOD RESPONDS … For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. YAHWEH’S TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM Ex 20:8 “(5)Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. THE SABBATH DAY OF REST WAS SOMETHING UNHEARD OF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. GOD IS GIVING A GIFT OF A DAY OF REST TO EVERY PERSON NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATUS, EVEN SLAVES AND SERVANTS, FOREIGNERS, AND DOMESTICATED BEASTS. IN ORDER TO FOLLOW THE SABBATH ONE HAD TO TRUST THAT GOD WOULD MAKE UP THE LABOR THAT WAS LOST DURING THE TIME OF REST … THAT LABOR IS WHAT PROVIDED SUSTENANCE FOR FAMILIES … A WEEKLY REMINDER OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE. ORIGINALLY THE SABBATH WAS FRIDAY SUNDOWN – SATURDAY SUNDOWN. Mt 12:1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 3He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 6I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless (THE PHARISEES WERE CONDEMNING THE DISCIPLES FOR PICKING THE GRAIN JUST AS THEY CONDEMNED JESUS FOR HEALING ON THE SABBATH.. 8For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” The verse Jesus quoted Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. JESUS IS CLAIMING TO BE THE LORD OF THE SABBATH, OR, YAHWEH … HERE’S JESUS GUIDANCE FOR THE SABBATH GOING FORWARD … DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH, AND EVERY OTHER DAY, AND MAKE JESUS YOUR SABBATH REST … EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. SO, ARE CHRISTIANS “REQUIRED” TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL SABBATH, OR THE SABBATH RESTRICTIONS ON SUNDAYS? The Jerusalem Council Acts 15 (Gotquestions.org) In the early chapters of the book of Acts, the first Christians were predominantly Jews. When Gentiles began to receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, the Jewish Christians had a dilemma. What aspects of the Mosaic Law and Jewish tradition should Gentile Christians be instructed to obey? The apostles met and discussed the issue in the Jerusalem council (Acts 15). The decision was, (BY JAMES THE BROTHER OF JESUS AND LEADER OF THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM) “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood” (Acts 15:19-20). Sabbath-keeping was not one of the commands the apostles felt was necessary to force on Gentile believers. A common error in the Sabbath-keeping debate is the concept that the Sabbath was the day of worship. Groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists hold that God requires the church service to be held on Saturday, the Sabbath day. That is not what the Sabbath command was. The Sabbath command was to do no work on the Sabbath day (Exodus 20:8-11). Yes, Jews in Old Testament, New Testament, and modern times use Saturday as the day of worship, but that is not the essence of the Sabbath command. In the book of Acts, whenever a meeting is said to be on the Sabbath, it is a meeting of Jews and/or Gentile converts to Judaism, not Christians. When did the early Church/Christians meet? Acts 2:46-47 gives us the answer, “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” The tradition of most of the followers of Christ for the past 2000 years has been that Christians meet on the first day of the week (our Sunday), not the Sabbath day (our Saturday) (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). In honor of Christ’s resurrection on Sunday, the early Christians observed Sunday not as the “Christian Sabbath” but as a day to especially worship Jesus Christ. Is there anything wrong with worshiping on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath? Absolutely not! We should worship God every day, not just on Saturday or Sunday! Many churches today have both Saturday and Sunday services. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1). Should a Christian practice Sabbath-keeping, that is, not working on Saturdays? If a Christian feels led to do so, absolutely, yes (Romans 14:5). However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16). Further, those who do not keep the Sabbath should avoid being a stumbling block (1 Corinthians 8:9) to those who do keep the Sabbath. Galatians 5:13-15 sums up the whole issue: “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” Col 2:16 16Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Heb 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. WE REST FROM OUR “WORKS” BY TRUSTING IN JESUS FOR OUR SALVATION – WE ARE FREE FROM WORKS OF THE LAW. OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCE CLAIMED BY THOSE WHO SAY WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH: Is 66: 22“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain. 23 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord. HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE OF GOD “KEEP THE SABBATH AND WORSHIP” BY RESTING IN JESUS. Back to Ex 20:12 “(6)Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Deut 21:18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. From Ellicott’s commentary: Honour, reverence, and obedience are due to parents from the position in which they stand to their children :—(1) As, in a certain sense, the authors of their being; I WATCHED MY 4 CHILDREN EMERGE FROM MY WIFE’S BODY !!! (2) as their shelterers and nourishers; (3) as their protectors and educators, from...
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Exodus Chapter 19 Deep-Dive: Mount Sinai
05/19/2025
Exodus Chapter 19 Deep-Dive: Mount Sinai
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex Ch 19 - Israel at Mount Sinai 1On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt They left Egypt three months prior to this, BUT, the location of Mt Sinai CAN NOT be 100% verified there are many different options and opinions among historians, archaeologists and scholars. However, when Moses first approached Pharaoh: Ex 5:1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.” 3Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” OBEDIENCE … So, Mt Sinai was most likely just a 3 day journey from Egypt. 4But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 5And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” AFTER the Red Sea crossing, half-way to Sinai: MARAH - BITTER WATER MADE SWEET, MANNA & THE SABBATH REST) , on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. GOD HAS WORKED MIRACLES FOR YOU 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, SO, OBEY & KEEP UP YOUR PART OF THE COVENANT WITH GOD you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ THE PLANNED RESULT = ISRAEL WILL BE GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE – HIS TREASURED POSSESSION AMONG ALL PEOPLES – A HOLY NATION – YAHWEH’S REPRESENTATIVE PRIESTHOOD FOR ALL NATIONS. 1 Pet 2:4As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 7So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. 8All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. MOSES IS THE INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GOD, ISRAEL COMMITTED TO KEEPING GOD’S COMMANDMENTS – MAINTAINING THEIR PART OF THE COVENANT. 9And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” GOD IS AUTHORIZING MOSES TO BE HIS REPRESENTATIVE Back to the Red Sea crossing: Ex 14: 30Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. V9 … When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord, (MOSES THE INTERMEDIARY) 10the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments 11and be ready for the third day. (IT TOOK TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO PREPARE) For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. EVERYONE WILL SEE THIS FIRSTHAND! 12And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet (HEAVENLY TRUMPET) sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” 14So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments. 15And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.” (YOU DON’T NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT SEX RIGHT NOW – ANTICIPATING THIS PERSONAL MEETING WITH GOD) 16On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. (THIS WAS TERRIFYING – GOD IS COMMUNICATING THAT HE IS TO BE FEARED … THE THICK SMOKE IS HIDING THE GLORY OF THE LORD FROM THE PEOPLE … PROTECTING THE PEOPLE SO THEY WON’T DIE) 17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God (MOSES WAS THE PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVE BEFORE GOD, BUT EVEN HE WAS TERRIFIED Heb 12:21Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.), and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. (LIKE A VOLCANO – FIRE – SMOKE – EARTHQUAKE – THE VERY FOUNDATION OF YOUR WORLD SHAKEN UP BY GOD) 19And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. (WHAT ?!?) 20The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. (IMAGINE HOW TERRIFYING THAT WAS TO EVERYONE … WHO ELSE BUT MOSES COULD GO UP TO GOD! MOSES IS NOW BEGINNING TO TRULY KNOW GOD SO THAT HE COULD KEEP HIS WITS ABOUT HIM AS THIS IS TAKING PLACE) 21And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish. 22Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out against them.” 23And Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’” GOD IS HOLY – HE OCCUPIES SACRED SPACE. Moses at the burning bush encounters the angel of the Lord – God in the flesh, Ex 3: 1Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Joshua later at Jericho encounters this same angel of the Lord – God in the flesh. Josh 5:13When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” 14And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” 15And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. Who are the priests mentioned here – God had not yet instituted the divine priesthood of Aaron and the Levites? Well, Melchizedek and Jethro were priests of God but not Israelites, it would only make sense that the Hebrews also had informal spiritual leaders within the nation … priests. 24And the Lord said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them.” GOD SPEAKING ABOUT HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON … THIS IS JESUS SPEAKING WITH MOSES, AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT YAHWEH. 25So Moses went down to the people and told them. (GOD SENDS MOSES BACK DOWN AND TELLS HIM TO COME BACK WITH AARON) AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 19 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 18 Deep-Dive: Jethro Visits Moses
05/19/2025
Exodus Chapter 18 Deep-Dive: Jethro Visits Moses
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex Ch 18 Jethro’s Advice 1 Jethro (THE NAME “JETHRO” WAS MOST LIKELY A TITLE, the priest of Midian … Gen 25:1Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jethro is a great grandson of Abraham and a relative of Moses and the Israelites COMPARE Jethro the priest of Midian to Melchizedek priest of Salem who met Abram after he rescued Lot( Gen 14:17-20) 17After his (Abram’s) return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) 19And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. SO, GOD HAD PRIESTS THAT SERVED HIM OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL … THE TRUE GOD WAS WORSHIPED EVEN OUTSIDE ISRAEL. Acts 18:9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. Rev 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Jethro is Moses’ father-in-law – they’re related, Jethro is like a father to Moses. (Moses LIVED WITH HIM FOR 40 yrs, AND MOSES SERVED JETHRO WORKING AS THE SHEPHERD OF JETHRO’S FLOCKS) … heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home (just a few months before this!), 3along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”), 4and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). 5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God. 6And when he sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,” (Jethro got tired of taking care of Moses’ family) 7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent. 8Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.” (Neh 9:10) 12And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. Jethro had GRAVITAS before the Hebrews – he had offered sanctuary to Moses for 40 yrs and had wisdom even though he was NOT an Israelite! 13The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. 14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” MOSES SPOKE FOR GOD, WHATEVER MOSES DECIDED … THAT WAS THE DECISION OF GOD. JESUS HAS GIVEN THIS SAME PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CHURCH Mt 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Mt 18:18Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. JESUS EVEN VERIFIED THE AUTHORITY GIVEN TO THE SCRIBES & PRIESTS THROUGH THE TORAH: Mt 23:1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, 3so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. James 5:16 … The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. 1 Cor 61When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? … THIS IS THE SAME THING MOSES WAS DEALING WITH … BACK TO MOSES ... Moses had no one he could really take advice from – the people, including Aaron and Miriam (his siblings) were so in awe of him that they never really considered him as just a man. GOD SENT Jethro to Moses because MOSES NEEDED GOOD ADVICE – WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS NOT GOOD!! 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. 18You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. 19Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, 20and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. (Note – the law had not been given yet!) 21Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 22And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. 23 If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.” 24So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. 25Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 26And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves. 27Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country. SO, MOSES CREATES A LEADERSHIP/LEGAL/JUDGING HIERARCHY IN ISRAEL, REPORTING TO HIM/GOD ... BEFORE THE ORDINANCE OF THE PRIESTHOOD WAS GIVEN … … THE SAME PATTERN WAS FOLLOWED IN THE EARLY CHURCH WHEN PAUL, TITUS AND TIMOTHY ESTABLISHED ELDERS & DEACONS IN THE CHURCHES THEY HAD PLANTED… Jethro’s descendants join the Hebrews Judges 1: 16 And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 18 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 17 Deep-Dive: Water from the Rock
05/19/2025
Exodus Chapter 17 Deep-Dive: Water from the Rock
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. ISRAEL MIRACULOUSLY PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THIS, THEN GOD MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDED BREAD (MANNA), AND MEAT (QUAIL) … IN CH 16 … THE MIRACULOUS DAILY PROVISION OF MANNA WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE EXODUS, WATER WILL BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF PROBLEM … Ex Ch 17 Water from the Rock 1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim (COULD BE “A PLACE OF HEALING”, OR IT COULD BE JUST A PROPER NOUN-NAME), but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” (HEBREW TEST & TEMP ARE THE SAME WORD – LIKE A BLACKSMITH TESTING A SWORD AS HE MAKES IT … THINK OF JESUS BEING LED INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE SPIRIT SO HE COULD BE TEMPTED/TESTED BY THE DEVIL … JESUS’ LIFE RECREATES THE EXODUS BEGINNING WITH HIS BAPTISM/RED SEA, THEN INTO THE WILDERNESS … BUT HE DOES BETTER THAN ISRAEL DID) BACK TO MOSES … DON’T GRUMBLE … GOD KNOWS YOU NEED WATER … YOU’RE TESTING HIM BUT IN REALITY, HE’S TESTING YOU … AND YOU’RE FAILING! 3But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 4So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel (HEADS OF THE TRIBES AND CLANS … THE LEADERS/JUDGES), and take in your hand the staff (PS 23, YOUR ROD & STAFF COMFORT ME – LEAD ME AND POP ME UP-SIDE-THE-HEAD WHEN I NEED IT… A SYMBOL OF AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP) with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb (AN APPEARANCE OF GOD IN PHYSICAL FORM … THIS IS JESUS, THE PERSONAL MESSENGER/REPRESENTATIVE OF YAHWEH) , and you shall strike the rock (OR, STRIKE THE ROCK ON WHICH GOD IS STANDING … A DANGEROUS, THREATENING THING TO DO TOWARDS GOD … SO, GOD TELLS MOSES TO JUDGE BETWEEN HIM/YAHWEH AND THE PEOPLE … THEN LAY THE PUNISHMENT/STRIKING ON GOD … THEN GOD WILL PROVIDE WATER, SO, THE PEOPLE ACCUSE/CURSE GOD BUT HE RESPONDS WITH BLESSING), and you shall strike the rock and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” COMPARE THIS SCENE TO WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE EXODUS IN NUM 20:8, IN THAT CASE GOD TELLS MOSES TO SPEAK TO THE ROCK, BUT MOSES STRIKES IT TWICE IN ANGER … THAT’S MOSES JUDGING GOD AND GOD WAS NOT PLEASED AND BECAUSE OF THAT BOTH MOSES AND AARON WERE EXCLUDED FROM ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND. AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN EX 16 … EVEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS GOD WAS NOT PLEASED WITH THE NATION OF ISRAEL … HE’S ANGRY WITH THEM BECAUSE OF WHO & WHAT THEY HAD BECOME DURING THEIR TIME IN EGYPT EZ 20:4-10… AND HE’S GOING TO BECOME MORE AND MORE ANGRY AS THEY PROGRESS THROUGH THE EXODUS. PAUL RECOUNTS THIS SCENE FOR THE NEW BELIEVERS IN CORINTH: 1 Cor 10:1For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. BACK TO EX 17: Israel Defeats Amalek Ex 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. Amalek is a grandson of Esau (Edom) – Jacob’s brother, so, the Amalekites are close relatives of Israel. It’s interesting that scripture names the man Amalek here, instead of naming the Amalekites. There is a lot of extra scriptural material stating how nasty the Amalekites were, however, none of that is from scripture. Here we have God working his signs and wonders in Egypt for months before this, then Israel miraculously passing through the red sea just a few weeks before this, then we have the song of Moses in which Moses PROPHESIES the nations in that region are going to be terrified of Israel: From Ex 15, Moses’ song of praise after crossing the Red Sea - two chapters ago: 13“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 14 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia. 15Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. SO, MOSES PROPHESIED THAT THE CHIEFS OF EDOM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE AMALEK, WILL BE DISMAYED, EXCEPT … AMALEK WASN’T … HE DIDN’T PAY ATTENTION TO GOD’S TERROR AND HE WENT OUT AND MADE WAR ON ISRAEL … EVEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF YAHWEH’S MIRACULOUS SIGNS … THAT IS WHAT INFURIATED GOD AGAINST AMALEK Deut 25:17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 19Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. ALSO, 440 YEARS AFTER THIS EVENT … 1 Sam 15:1 And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” AND IT WAS SAUL’S FAILURE TO FOLLOW THIS DIRECTIVE FROM GOD THAT LED TO HIM LOSING THE KINGSHIP OF ISRAEL. TWO REFERENCES TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMALEKITES BEING TIED TO THIS ACT OF WAR AGAINS ISRAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS AND NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE ANY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER CLAN … DISOBEDIENCE IS WHAT INFURIATED YAHWEH! BACK TO MOSES IN EX 17 9So Moses said to Joshua, (FIRST MENTION OF JOSHUA – he’s chosen to lead the army) “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” (SPECIFICALLY SPOKEN BY MOSES AS ENCOURAGEMENT FOR JOSHUA?) 10So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed (JOSHUA ENCOURAGED??), and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed (JOSHUA DISCOURAGED). 12But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. THIS IS THE ONLY INCIDENT IN SCRIPTURE THAT I CAN THINK OF WHERE A MAN HOLDING UP HIS HANDS IS WHAT DETERMINED WHETHER OR NOT ISRAEL WAS SUCCESSFUL AT WAR, SO, I THINK THE HANDS BEING HELD UP IS TIED TO JOSHUA DEPENDING ON THAT SIGHT … WHEN HE SAW THE HANDS RAISED HE FOUGHT HARD AND WON, WHEN THE HANDS WERE DOWN HE BECAME DISCOURAGED AND ISRAEL BEGAN TO LOSE … 14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, 16saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” WHY DOES GOD TELL MOSES TO RECITE THIS IN JOSHUA’S EARS ?? … Joshua was supposed to destroy the Amalekites when Israel took possession of the promised land but it didn’t happen! That same failure is what led to King Saul’s demise, also … AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 17 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 16 Deep-Dive: Manna From Heaven
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 16 Deep-Dive: Manna From Heaven
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 16 ISRAEL HAS WITNESSED THE PLAGUES YAHWEH SENT ON EGYPT, PARTICIPATED IN THE PASSOVER, PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA, SUNG THE SONG OF MOSES ABOUT THEIR AMAZING RESCUE BY YAHWEH, EXPERIENCED THE MIRACLE OF THE BITTER WATER MIRACULOUSLY MADE SWEET AT MARAH, AND HAVE CAMPED AT THE OASIS OF ELIM. NOW BEFORE WE CONTINUE ON THE EXODUS LET’S STOP AND LISTEN TO A LITTLE INSIDE BASEBALL … WHAT WAS ISRAEL’S CONDITION AT THIS TIME? Josh 24: 14“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods (PRESENT TENSE) your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River (Terah, Nahor, and Abraham), and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua at the end of his life, after he had spied out the land with Caleb, had to sit in the wilderness 40 yrs while that depraved unbelieving generation, which had witnessed first hand the delivery from Egypt, died off, then he led their children to conquer the promised land: Why is Joshua able to remind them of this? Because HE HAD BEEN A YOUNG MAN IN Egypt when Moses showed up. HE WAS THERE … HE HAD WITNESSED THE WHOLE THING! In Israel’s FIRST military encounter Joshua was tasked by Moses to lead the army. Ex 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner (Jehovah Nissi), 16saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” HE WAS MOSES’ ASSISTANT! He accompanied Moses to Mt Sinai when the law was given (Ex 24:13) He was there when Moses confronted Aaron and the people at the golden calves incident (Ex 32:17) He spent a lot of time in the tent of meeting where Moses met face to face with God (Ex 33:11) Joshua knew the Israelites intimately, going all the way back to Egypt … AND IT WAS NOT PRETTY! In their heart of hearts they were idolators. The prophet Ezekiel’s witness. When Judah had been sent by God into captivity in Babylon this is what God said about Israel through the prophet Ezekiel (exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC) God was remembering what they were like just a few generations after Jacob & Joseph: Ez 20:4 Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man (Ezekiel)? Make known to them the detestable things of their ancestors. 5 And you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of my choosing Israel ⌊I swore⌋ to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, and ⌊I swore⌋ to them, ⌊saying⌋, ‘I am Yahweh your God.’ 6 On that day ⌊I swore⌋ to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey—it is the most beautiful of all of the lands. 7 Then I said to them, ‘Let each one throw away the detestable things of his eyes, and you must not make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt! I am Yahweh your God.’ 8 But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one ⌊did not throw away⌋ the detestable things of their eyes; and ⌊they did not abandon⌋ the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. (SLAVERY & OPPRESSION) 9 “But I acted for the sake of my name ⌊to keep it from being profaned⌋ before the eyes of the nations ⌊among whom they lived⌋, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. 10 And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert, Israel had fallen into idolatry when they were in Egypt even though God had revealed himself to them (v5 I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt) GOD poured out His WRATH when they did not respond to Him: (v8 I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt). Yet, God was faithful to the promise He had made to Abraham Acts7:17 (NT, Stephen’s defense before the Sanhedrin) “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. 18Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’ God responded when his people cried out to Him. Ex3:7The Lord said (to Moses from the burning bush), “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring (YOU BRING!) my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” God causes suffering to elicit a response from sinful people, then responds when they turn to Him: Neh 9:9 “You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea. 10 You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they (the Egyptians) acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day. 11 And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters: SO, A MERCIFUL GOD RESCUES HIS PEOPLE, BUT, THEY WERE NASTY REBELLIOUS IDOLATORS WHO HAD RESISTED HIS INTERVENTIONS THROUGHOUT THEIR TIME IN EGYPT … BOTTOM LINE, AT THE END OF THE EXODUS, THIS IS HOW GOD FELT ABOUT THESE PEOPLE … Ps 95:10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” BACK TO EX 16: Bread from Heaven 1They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin(SINAI) (DESERT … LITERALLY A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN’T LIVE, DEATH AND DANGER), which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. (A MONTH) 2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness , 3and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” MORE COMPLAINING … GET USED TO IT! 4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” ONE DAY AT A TIME, EXCEPT FOR THE SABBATH 6So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” 8And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.” 9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” 10And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11And the Lord said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’” THE ONE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE 13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp FRESH DEAD BIRDS LAYING ON THE GROUND, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” (MANNA) For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’” 24So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.” 27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day. THE SABBATH WAS GIVEN TO ISRAEL BEFORE THE LAW 31Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.” 34As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. (THIS IS BEFORE THE ARK IS MADE) 35The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.) AGAIN, LATER GENERATIONS EXPLAINING WHAT AN OMER WAS AT THE TIME OF THE EXODUS … EDITING AND UPDATING THE SCRIPTURES. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD … EVERYTHING WE NEED FROM GOD FOR THAT DAY … JESUS, THE BREAD OF HEAVEN … UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH YOU HAVE NO PART WITH ME ... AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 16 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 15 Deep-Dive: The Song of Moses and Miriam
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 15 Deep-Dive: The Song of Moses and Miriam
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 15 THE SONG OF MOSES … THE FIRST BIBLICAL SONG, HYMN, OR “ODE” (THERE ARE 9 BIBLICAL ODES, THIS IS THE FIRST, THE 2nd IS DEUT 32, THE 9th IS LK 1, THE MAGNIFICAT, SUNG BY MARY, ABOUT GIVING BIRTH TO MESSIAH. THIS PORTION OF SCRIPTURE IS UNIQUE IN THAT THE HEBREW WAS NEVER UPDATED AS THE NATION GREW. LANGUAGES CHANGE, THINK OF CHAUCER’S ENGLISH COMPARED TO 21st CENTURY ENGLISH … AS THE BIBLICAL SCRIBES COPYING THE SCRIPTURES, AND THE EDITORS, UPDATED THE LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT ISRAEL’S HISTORY THIS HYMN’S LANGUAGE IS STILL IN IT’S ANCIENT HEBREW FORM WHICH MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO TRANSLATE … THINK OF READING SOMETHING IN OLDE ENGLISH. 1Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. (1 HE DESTROYED PHAROAH’S ARMY, 2 HE PROTECTED ISRAEL) 3The Lord is a man of war; the Lord (YAHWEH) is his name. 4 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. (EGYPTIAN SUPERNATURAL SEA OF REEDS IN THE AFTERLIFE AND HARD/HEAVY HEARTS SINKING THERE … THE ETERNALLY DROWNED) 5The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. (THE EGYPTIAN GOD, MANTU, THE RIGHT ARM OF RA – YAHWEH’S ARM IS STRONGER) 7In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; (LITERALLY “SATANS”, OR FALSE EGYPTIAN GODS) you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble. 8At the blast of your nostrils (AN ANCIENT IDOM OF SOMEONE’S NOSE BEING HOT WHEN THEY’RE ANGRY, CONVERSLY, THE HEBREW IDIOM FOR SOMEONE BEING SLOW TO ANGER WAS THAT THEY WERE “LONG NOSED”) the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. 9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ 10You blew with your wind; (THE BREATH OF GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT 2 Thess 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.) the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 12You stretched out your right hand; the earth (ERETZ: CAN MEAN EARTH, OR, UNDERWORLD-HADES) swallowed them. 13“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia (PHILISTINES – GOLIATH). 15The chiefs of Edom (uncle Esau – Jacob’s brother) will be terrified: Deut 2:4Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. 5Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. 6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ” the leaders of Moab (Lot’s descendants – Abraham’s nephew) will be seized with trembling, Deut 2:9Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.” BACK TO EX 16:15... all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. (MOSES IS SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO INHABIT THE PROMISED LAND WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS AND BE TERRIFIED – Josh 2:8 RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE SPEAKING TO THE ISRAELITE SPIES 41 YEARS FROM NOW Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.) BACK TO THE SONG OF MOSES EX15:17 You will bring them ISRAEL in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.” THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD IS ... WHEREVER GOD IS 19For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” Bitter Water Made Sweet 22Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah (BITTER). 24And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” MORE COMPLAINING 25And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, 26saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” A WARNING! AND IF YOU DON’T OBEY … HE MAY PUT DISEASES ON HIS PEOPLE ... 27Then they came to Elim (GODS), where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. 12 TRIBES, 12 APOSTLES, 70 SENT FORTH BY JESUS … A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EXODUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. AND THAT WILL WRAP OF EX 15 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 14 Deep-Dive: The Crossing of the Red Sea
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 14 Deep-Dive: The Crossing of the Red Sea
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX 14 1Then the Lord said to Moses, 2“Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth (MOUTH OF WATER), between Migdol (TOWER, ex LIGHTHOUSE?) and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon (BAAL OF THE NORTH); you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS WAS … THE SAME THEME WE’VE SEEN IN EXODUS … WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHICH PHAROAH, AND WE’RE NOT EXACTLY SURE OF THE LOCATIONS … IF GOD WANTED US TO KNOW, WE WOULD KNOW, REMEMBER, THIS IS TAKING PLACE SOMETIME BETWEEN 966 {1 Ki 6:1 480 yrs before Solomon’s temple} -1450 BC … REMEMBER THAT TRANSLATING NUMBERS FROM HEBREW IS VERY DIFFICULT AND IMPRECISE … BACK TO GOD SPEAKING WITH MOSES … 3For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so. 5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” ANOTHER QUICK CHANGE OF MIND FOR PHAROAH ... AND HIS SERVANTS 6So he PHAROAH made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he P-PHAROAH pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth (MOUTH OF WATER), in front of Baal-zephon BAAL OF THE NORTH, A PAGAN SHRINE). SO ISRAEL (MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN … ALL SLAVES) IS CAMPED AT THE BAAL-SHRINE … A STANDOFF BUT ISRAEL HAS THE WATER AT THEIR BACKS. EGYPT AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH OF A STANDING ARMY, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN MILITARY AGED MEN WHO WERE CALLED UP BY THE NOBILITY (CAPTAINS). ALSO, EGYPTIAN CHARIOTS WERE VERY LIGHT, WITH LARGE THIN WHEELS, FOR ONE PERSON, USUALLY USED TO DISPERSE ARCHERS … THEY REPRESENTED THE PEAK OF EGYPT’S MILITARY PROWESS AT THAT TIME, SO PHAROAH IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS ... 10When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” GET USED TO THIS … THIS IS ISRAEL’S MINDSET AT THAT TIME AND THESE COMPLAINTS ARE GOING TO BE REGURGITATED ON A REGULAR BASIS … ISRAEL ALSO HADN’T LEARNED FROM THE PLAGUES AND THE PASSOVER … 13And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” MOSES HAS APPARENTLY LEARNED HIS LESSONS ... 15The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? GET GOING! Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. 17And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” SO, WHICH SEA IS THIS? THE GREEK SEPTUAGINT REFERS TO THIS AS THE RED SEA BC WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS THE RED SEA WAS FIRST CALLED THE RED SEA BY THE GREEKS. THE HEBREW HAS “YAM SUPH” (YAM WAS A CHAOS GOD/MONSTER) WHICH MEANS SEA OF REEDS (THE RED/REED THING ONLY WORKS IN ENGLISH), IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXTS, GOING BACK TO THE OLD KINGDOM, THE SEA OF REEDS WAS A THING YOU HAD TO PASS OVER, OR THROUGH, ON YOUR WAY TO THE AFTERLIFE. THE DEAD WHO HADN’T APPEASED THE EGYPTIAN GODS CORRECTLY WERE CAUGHT IN THE REEDS AND PERISHED ETERNALLY … THE EGYPTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF WHO THE “DAMNED” WERE … THE ETERNALLY DROWNED. IT’S AN OVERLAP, THEY PASSED THROUGH AN ACTUAL BODY OF WATER, BUT IT WAS ALSO SYMBOLIC OF YAHWEH DEFEATING BAAL ZEPHON (WHERE THEY WERE CAMPED), WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAD DEFEATED YAM THE CHAOS GOD, AND THE EGYPTIAN AFTERLIFE. SO, YAHWEH MADE BAAL & YAM STAND UP AT ATTENTION ON DRY GROUND AS ISRAEL PASSED THROUGH THIS EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGICAL SUPERNATURAL SEA OF REEDS. WE NOW KNOW, THROUGH SATELLITE IMAGING THAT DURING THIS PERIOD IN EGYPT’S HISTORY THERE WERE A SERIES OF MAN MADE LOCKS, OR CHANNELS, ALONG THE BORDER OF EGYPT FOR SHIPS TO UNLOAD, THAT HAVE NOW DRIED OUT … THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE WATER THAT WAS CROSSED, BUT WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE. ALSO, THE SEA REPRESENTS CHAOS, DEATH & DESTRUCTION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 19 Then the angel of God (JESUS-THE PERSONAL MESSENGER OF YAHWEH-WHEN WE SEE GOD APPEARING IN THE FORM OF A MAN Nine chapters later in Exodus God explains who this angel is: Ex 23: 20“See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. 22If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. Has the ability to FORGIVE/NOT FORGIVE, Jehovah’s NAME is in him & WHAT HE (angel) SAYS IS WHAT GOD SAYS ! … it’s Jesus … THE SAME ANGEL MOSES ENCOUNTERED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THIS AT THE BURNING BUSH ON SINAI) 19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud (THE HOLY SPIRIT? … THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED EVERYONE DURING THE TRANSFIGURATION) moved from before them and stood behind them, SO, THERE ARE TWO VISUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD PRESENT AND BOTH HAVE MOVED BEHIND THE ISRAELITES TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE EGYPTIANS, AND WE HAD JUST HEARD YAHWEH SPEAKING TO MOSES, SO, THIS IS MOST LIKELY AN OT APPEARANCE OF THE TRINITY … 19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them 20coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night. SO DARK FOR THE EGYPTIANS THAT THEY DIDN’T APPROACH THE ISRAELITES. 21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” DUH … THE PLAGUES HAD JUST OCCURRED INCLUDING THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN! 26Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. 29But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. ANOTHER DRAMATIC MANIFESTATION OF YAHWEH DEFEATING THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AND GODS … ANY EGYPTIAN WHO SAW THIS WENT BACK AND SPREAD THE WORD … THIS IS A SEMINAL MOMENT IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY AND IS REFERRED TO OVER AND OVER AGAIN THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE. KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT AN ALLEGORY … IT’S AN ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENT THAT ISRAEL EXPERIENCED. SO, YOU HAVE ISRAEL BEING RESCUED FROM THE KILLING OF THE FIRSTBORN THROUGH THE PASSOVER LAMB(S), THEN THE YAHWEH LEADING HIS PEOPLE AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE WATERS FROM DEATH TO NEW LIFE … A PICTURE OF CHRIST’S SACRIFICE AND OUR NEW LIFE THROUGH BAPTISM. 1 Cor 10:1 PAUL WRITING For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 14 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 13 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Firstborn
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 13 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Firstborn
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX 13 CONSECRATION OF THE FIRSTBORN TIED DIRECTLY TO THE PASSOVER 1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.” THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS CRITICAL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF THE PARENTS INTO OLD AGE. THE FATHER’S LEGACY, WHAT HE BUILT THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, WAS PASSED ON TO THE FIRSTBORN. ALSO, WOMEN WHO SURVIVED CHILDBIRTH TENDED TO OUTLIVE THEIR HUSBANDS SO THE FIRSTBORN WAS EXPECTED TO CARE FOR HIS WIDOWED MOTHER (THE WIDOW OF NAIN Lk 7:11Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” 14Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” 15The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” 17This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country) BACK TO EX 13, SO, THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS THE KEY TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE FAMILY, WHEN GOD TELLS THE ISRAELITES THAT EVERY FIRSTBORN BELONGS TO HIM … HE’S TELLING THEM TO FOCUS ON HIM/YAHWEH, AND NOT THEIR EARTHLY CIRCUMSTANCES … THAT’S ONE OF THE KEYS TO JESUS BEING CALLED THE “FIRSTBORN” … HE’S THE ONE WHO ENSURES OUR FUTURES. GOD HAD ALSO COMMANDED THAT THE FIRSTBORN ANIMALS ALSO BELONGED TO HIM … WEALTH WAS MEASURED IN THE SIZE OF YOUR FLOCK, NOT ALL ANIMALS LIVED TO ADULTHOOD, SO, HAVING TO SURRENDER YOUR FIRSTBORN ANIMALS TO GOD MEANT YOU WERE GIVING HIM A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF YOUR WEALTH … FURTHER DEMONSTRATION OF HOW RELIANT YOU WERE TO BE ON YAHWEH … ATTACH YOUR FAITH TO THIS SACRIFICE. 3Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand/ARM. COMPARED TO THE RIGHT ARM OF PHAROAH, OR THE RIGHT HAND/ARM OF THE CHIEF EGYPTIAN GOD, RA … Eat nothing containing yeast. 4Today, in the month of Aviv (AKA Nisan, March/April … the first month of the Hebrew calendar) you are leaving. 5When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month: 6For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord. 7Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. SO THERE IS A WEEK LEADING UP TO THE PASSOVER DURING WHICH YOU CAN NOT EAT YEAST, THAT’S WHY PASSOVER IS REFERRED TO AS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD … UNLEAVENED BECAUSE THEY HAD TO LEAVE IN A HURRY AND THE BREAD DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO RISE … 8On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ THAT’S HOW ALL FUTURE ISRAELITES THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE TO REFER TO THIS; “WHAT GOD DID FOR ME” SO, ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS WERE TIED TO THIS ORIGINAL EVENT IN EGYPT, BEING SET FREE FROM SLAVERY, THROUGH THE YEARLY OBSERVANCE OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH CULMINATES IN EATING THE PASSOVER LAMB Jn 6:53Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day SO, WHEN WE EAT THE COMMUNION BREAD WE ARE ALSO TIED DIRECTLY BACK TO THE SACRIFICE CHRIST MADE ON THE CROSS FOR US 2,000 YEARS AGO. 9This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. 10You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year. 11“After the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your ancestors, 12you are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord. 13Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. DONKEYS WERE UNCLEAN, YOU DON’T SACRIFICE UNCLEAN ANIMALS, SO, THEY WERE REPLACED WITH CLEAN ANIMALS IF YOU WANTED TO KEEP THE UNCLEAN ANIMAL … DONKEYS WERE DOMESTICATED BEASTS OF BURDEN AND VALUABLE. Redeem every firstborn among your sons. YOU DIDN’T KILL YOUR FIRSTBORN SONS, YOU PAID A PRICE TO “BUY THEM BACK” OR REDEEM THEM FROM GOD. 14“In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’ 16And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.” MIGHTY HAND/ARM, IT WAS AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL EVENT … GOD’S MIRACULOUS PLAGUES ON THE EGYPTIANS … THIS ISN’T JUST SOME VAGUE SPIRITUAL EVENT … IT’S TIED TO SOMETHING GOD ACTUALLY DID IN EGYPT … THE SAME PRINCIPAL APPLIES TO JESUS … HE ACTUALLY LIVED AND DIED AND OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES ARE TIED TO THOSE ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT LED TO THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION. Crossing the Sea 17When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” GOD IS SOVEREIGN, HOWEVER, THIS IS A CLEAR STATEMENT OF “FREE WILL” … “THEY MIGHT CHANGE THEIR MINDS” GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, HOWEVER, THE REACTIONS OF THE ISRAELITES WERE NOT PREDETERMINED BY GOD 18So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. 19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.” 20After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. 21By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. 22Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people. THEOPHANIC GLORY CLOUD … THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AT NIGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE A GLOWING, RADIANT CLOUD AND NOT LIKE A BLOWTORCH. THINK OF THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED JESUS, MOSES, ELIJAH, PETER, JAMES AND JOHN DURING THE TRANSFIGURATION, AND THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED THE TEMPLE WHEN SOLOMON DEDICATED IT, AND THE CLOUD THAT WOULD ENVELOPE THE TENT OF MEETING WHEN MOSES WAS MEETING WITH GOD. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 13 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 12 Deep-Dive: The Passover
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 12 Deep-Dive: The Passover
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 12 The Passover THIS WILL DETERMINE WHO IS AN EGYPTIAN AND WHO IS AN ISRAELITE … EVERYONE WILL HAVE A CHOICE 1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. NEW CALENDAR FOR ISRAEL BASED ON WHEN THE ORIGINAL PASSOVER OCCURRED – THIS “RELIGIOUS” CALENDAR IS OVERLAYED ONTO THE AGRIGULTURAL CALENDAR THAT ISRAEL SHARES WITH ITS NEAR EAST NEIGHBORS. 3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS SHOULD SHARE A LAMB SO THAT MOST OF IT WILL BE EATEN 5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month SO, YOU CHOOSE IT ON THE 10TH, THEN IT LIVES WITH YOU UNTIL THE 14TH, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. SO, MOSES IS DESCRIBING HOW IT WILL WORK IN THE FUTURE … CHOOSE ON THE 10TH, SLAUGHTER ON THE 14TH, THE FIRST PASSOVER, HOWEVER, OCCURRED THE SAME DAY GOD ANNOUNCED IT 7“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. THIS MARKING OF THE HOUSE WITH BLOOD IS WHAT WILL DISTINGUISH WHO ARE ISRAELITES AND WHO ARE EGYPTIANS … ANYONE CAN BE CIRCUMCISED AND EAT THE PASSOVER AND THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED PART OF ISRAEL … 8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. THESE ARE NOT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS … THEY ARE ACTUAL SPIRITUAL BEINGS … GOD’S ENEMIES ARE NOT THE EGYPTIANS, THEY ARE THE GODS OF EGYPT. 13The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. THE BLOOD ON THE DOORPOSTS WILL PROTECT YOU FROM … ME/YAHWEH. 14“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. THIS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT FEAST IN THE RECURRING RELIGIOUS CALENDAR OF ISRAEL, MOSES DESCRIBES IT FURTHER: 15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. THAT’S WHY IT’S REFERRED TO AS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD… On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly HOLY WEEK. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.” UNLEAVENED BECAUSE YOU WON’T HAVE TIME TO LET THE DOUGH RISE … YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF EGYPT IN A HURRY … BUT YOU STILL NEED TO EAT BREAD WITH YOUR MEAL, BUT IT WILL BE UNLEAVENED BREAD DURING THE 7 DAYS OF THE FEAST/MEMORIAL. BACK TO MOSES REAL TIME IN EGYPT 21Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. THERE WAS NO PRIESTHOOD YET, HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS WERE MOST LIKELY DOING THIS None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. YAHWEH HAS THEIR ATTENTION NOW! 28Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. OBEDIENCE The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn 29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” PHAROAH IS FINALLY HUMBLED AND BROKEN The Exodus 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” YAHWEH NOW HAS EVERYONE’S UNDIVIDED ATTENTION! 34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. 37And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. REMEMBER, LARGE NUMBERS ARE NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO EXPRESS IN HEBREW & TO TRANSLATE … THIS IS MORE LIKE 600-“LARGE NUMBER” … IT WAS MOST LIKELY 600 CLANS. 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, PEOPLE WHO JOINED THEMSELVES TO ISRAEL THROUGHOUT THE 10 PLAGUES and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. 39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. 40The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41At the end of 430 years, AGAIN, LARGE NUMBERS ARE DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET AND THE PRECISE DATE OF THE EXODUS IS NOT IMPORTANT … on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations. Institution of the Passover 43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. 47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. HE WILL BE AN ISRAELITE! But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” Lev 24:10 Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, 50All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. REMEMBER, THIS CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PHAROAH AND GOD STARTED WITH PHAROAH SEEKING TO KILL ALL MALE HEBREW BABIES … SO, GOD IS GOING TO KILL A LOT OF “INNOCENT” BABIES, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS … GOD IS GOING TO KILL THEM ALL HIMSELF … IN ORDER TO DISPLAY HIS WONDERS BEFORE THE WORLD … BUT, THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING DESERVING OF DEATH … RIGHT? WE HAVE TO SHAKE OFF THIS WESTERN-MINDED WORLDLY “WISDOM” … IT’S NOT BIBLICAL … GOD GIVES AND TAKES LIFE FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES Deut 32:39“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 1 Sam 2:6 HANNAH’S PRAYER The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. Ez 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. Job 9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ Lk 12:4 JESUS SPEAKING “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! 6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. 7Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows. All men are wicked sinners, slaves to sin and enemies of God, even children in the sense that no one has standing before God, no one has a “right” to “go to heaven” … we’re all clay in the hands of the potter: Prov 22:15 “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child” Ps 51:5 DAVID “Surely I was sinful at birth, / sinful from the time my mother conceived me” Ps 58:3 “Even from birth the wicked go astray; / from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies” 1 Ki 8:46“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin Is 9:17 … for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. BACK TO GEN 12 The first Passover – the slaying of the firstborn by GOD. LET’S TAKE A DEEPER LOOK AT WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOUT “FIRSTBORN” Luk 2:7 And she (Mary) gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. Rom 8:29 For those whom he (YAHWEH) foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son (JESUS), in order that he (JESUS) might be the firstborn among many brothers. THINK “OLDEST – PRIMARY – INHERITOR” … THE OLDEST OF THE BROTHERS Col 1:15 He (JESUS) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. NOW PERMANENTLY IN HUMAN FORM – THE “HEAD” … THE “INHERITOR” AS JOSEPH REPLACED REUBEN … “CREATION” CAN MEAN “HUMAN BEINGS” Col 1:18 And he (JESUS) is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead (RESURRECTION), that in everything he might be preeminent. Heb 1:6 And again, when he (YAHWEH) brings the firstborn (THE INHERITOR OR HEAD) into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him (JESUS IN HUMAN FORM).” Heb 11:28 By faith he (MOSES) kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. THE FIRSTBORN WERE KILLED BY GOD (Num 3:13 for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.”)… THEY PAID THE PRICE … JUST AS JESUS DID. Heb 12:23 and to the assembly (CHURCH) of the firstborn (JESUS IN RESURRECTION & AS INHERITOR) who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, Rev 1:5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood Num 3:11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine, 13for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down (KILLED) all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own (TOOK AS SLAVES) all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the Lord.” SO, JESUS IS THE FIRSTBORN OF THE EGYPTIANS – SLAIN BY GOD’S WRATH IN PLACE OF THE ISRAELITE FIRSTBORN WHO WERE “PASSED-OVER”, HE’S ALSO THE FIRSTBORN OF THE ISRAELITES – BELONGING TO GOD, AND HE’S THE FAITHFUL SERVANT OF THE LORD AS THE LEVITES “REPLACED” THE FIRSTBORN OF THE PEOPLE. And that will wrap up Ex 12 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 11 Deep-Dive: The Plague on the Firstborn
04/21/2025
Exodus Chapter 11 Deep-Dive: The Plague on the Firstborn
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 11 A Final Plague Threatened 1The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. 2Speak now in the hearing of the people ISRAEL, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.” ASK YOUR EGYPTIAN NEIGHBORS TO GIVE YOU THEIR SILVER AND GOLD … WHAT?! YES, GOD WILL WORK IT OUT SO THAT THE EGYPTIANS WILL WILLINGLY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE PLUNDERED BY THE ISRAELITES 3And the Lord gave the people ISRAEL favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people. GOD IS COMPLETELY CONTROLLING THIS DISPLAY OF HIS MIGHT, EVEN TURNING THE HEARTS OF THE EGYPTIANS TO VIEW THE ISRAELITES AND MOSES FAVORABLY EVEN IN LIGHT OF YAHWEH DESTROYING EGYPT ... THESE ISRAELITES HAVE A GOD WHICH IS FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN PHAROAH OR ANY EGYPTIAN GOD! 4So Moses said, TO PHAROAH AND HIS COURT “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go YAHWEH HIMSELF IS GOING TO DO THIS! I will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh THE KING who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, “INNOCENT” SLAVE GIRLS WHO HAVE NO POWER and all the firstborn of the cattle. THE FEW THAT MAY BE LEFT AT THAT POINT … EVERYTHING THAT LIVES BELONGS TO THE LORD 6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 7But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ THAT’S THE REASON WHY THIS IS HAPPENING – THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL, BUT IT’S NOT GOOD VS BAD, IT’S CHOSEN BY YAHWEH VS NOT CHOSEN. 8And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I YAHWEH will go out.” And he MOSES went out from Pharaoh in hot anger PHAROAH WAS ANGRY … HE HAD THREATENED TO KILL MOSES THE LAST TIME HE SAW HIM. 9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” FINAL WARNING TO PHAROAH, AT THIS POINT HE MUST KNOW THAT THIS EPIC DISASTER IS GOING TO HAPPEN BUT HE DOES NOTHING TO PREVENT IT! 10Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land. What about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart? God is sovereign and controls all things, at the same time the Bible clearly shows that each man will be held responsible and/or rewarded for all of his actions: God is totally sovereign and in control of all things Is 29:16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”? Is 45:6-7 6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. “CREATE EVIL, OR PREPARE EVIL” IN THE SENSE OF DOING DESTRUCTIVE OR PAINFUL THINGS … EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE HE IS RIGHTEOUS, HE’S ALSO THE CREATOR AND DESTROYER OF ALL THINGS … EVERYTHING EXISTS AT HIS WILL & MERCY … THE CREATOR GOD IS THE ONLY VICTIM IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE … HUMAN BEINGS, CREATED IN HIS IMAGE, ARE IN CONSTANT REBELLION AGAINST HIM … EVEN SOME ANGELIC BEINGS, CREATED BY HIM, ARE ALSO IN REBELLION … HE IS THE CREATOR … HE DECIDES & JUDGES, OR TESTS, ALL THINGS … Is 45:9“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ CONSIDER THE APOSTLE PAUL AS HE USES HIS NEW COVENANT DECODER RING TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THIS ISSUE OF GOD HARDENING PHAROAH’S HEART Rom 9:10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” ESAU WILL SERVE JACOB 13Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” SPEAKING OF THE NATIONS ISRAEL VS EDOM 14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” BECAUSE EVERYONE IS IN REBELLION! 16It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” 21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? HERE’S A PICTURE OF SOVEREIGNTY AND FREE WILL AT WORK TOGETHER IN THE HANDS OF GOD: GOD USED THE NATION OF ASSYRIA TO PUNISH ISRAEL AND TAKE THE PEOPLE INTO CAPTIVITY: Is 10:5“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath! 6I send him against a godless nation ISRAEL, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. At the same time the Bible states that God holds all men responsible for their actions & presents man as having free will: AGAIN, ISAIAH CH 10 … THE ASSYRIANS SENT BY THE LORD TO TAKE ISRAEL INTO CAPTIVITY Is 10:12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem (punishing them), he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. 13For he says: “ ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. OR CONSIDER WHAT PAUL SAYS TO THE CORINTHIANS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE MISTREATING THE POOR DURING THEIR CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER AND SOME WERE GETTING DRUNK I Cor 11:27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord (the Lord’s Supper) in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ YOUR POOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS SITTING WITH YOU WHO HAVE NOTHING eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep DIED. 31But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world. OUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AND WE ARE JUDGED BY GOD … SIN CAN LEAD TO WEAKNESS, ILLNESS AND EVEN DEATH IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER. OR CONSIDER WHAT GOD SAID TO MOSES REGARDING THE EXODUS Ex 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” THEY MIGHT CHANGE THEIR MINDS WHAT ?! … FREE WILL?! YES! THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES BOTH FREE WILL-TIED WITH REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND PUNSISHMENT THE WICKED, AND, THAT GOD IS TOTALLY SOVEREIGN AND IN CONTROL OF ALL CIRCUMSTANCES Rev22:12 (Jesus said) “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. These seemingly contradictory truths are an antinomy, A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable; a paradox. This is beyond our ability to understand Deut 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. The truth of the sovereignty of God should be a significant comfort to all believers – God controls all of our circumstances, and uses them for our good Rom 8:28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he JESUS might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? (BUT MAYBE NOT IN THIS LIFE) 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. (SATAN ACCUSES US, JESUS IS OUR ADVOCATE) Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (OUR DEFENDER BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD). 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” (GOD MAY REQUIRE ANY OF THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR US) 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NO MATTER WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR US, FOR HE HAS NUMBERED THE HAIRS ON OUR HEADS AND CONTROLS ALL OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES, SO, ACT CORRECTLY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE GOD SEES EVERYTHING YOU DO) AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 11 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 10 Deep-Dive: Locusts and Darkness
03/24/2025
Exodus Chapter 10 Deep-Dive: Locusts and Darkness
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 10 The Eighth Plague: Locusts 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE & PLAN WITH AND WITHIN HIS CREATION … HE IS THE POTTER, WE ARE THE CLAY, HE CAN, AND WILL, DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH HIS CREATION … HOW CAN THE POT GIVE ORDERS TO THE POTTER? Prov 16:4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. WHAT?!? SURELY THAT’S A BIBLICAL ANOMALY … RIGHT? HERE’S WHAT PAUL HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT USING HIS NEW COVENANT DEOCDER RING Rom 11:32 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 36For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT … THAT’S UTTERLY TERRIFYING! ALL OF HUMANITY IS IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD, YET GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD … Mt 10:28 JESUS SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. PEOPLE – ENEMIES Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. YAHWEH BACK TO MOSES: 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, 2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.” UP TO TODAY … THE EXODUS BECAME THE FOUNDATION OF ISRAEL … THE TORAH … THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES … THE NARRATIVE OF GOD BIRTHING HIS “FIRSTBORN SON”, THE NATION OUT OF ISRAEL, OUT OF EGYPT ... THAT’S THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL. 3So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? A NEW TONE FROM GOD … “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU? AREN’T YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!? HUMBLE YOURSELF! ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, 5and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field, 6and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN HUMANS – EVERY SINGLE BIT OF FOOD IN YOUR LAND WILL BE DEVOURED BY THE LOCUSTS!! Then he MOSES turned and went out from Pharaoh. 7Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?” PHAROAH FINALLY LISTENS TO HIS ADVISERS … THE NATION IS RUINED AND WE DON’T EVEN LIKE THESE PEOPLE SO LET THEM GO! 8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?” MORE NEGOTIATING 9Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.” 10But he said to them, “The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind. 11No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. YUP, STILL BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH PHAROAH … 12Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.” 13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 15They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. NO FOOD! 16Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.” 18So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord. 19And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt. 20But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go. NOTE THAT IN THIS CASE PHAROAH ADMITTED THAT HE HAD SINNED, BUT, HE DIDN’T REALLY REPENT OF THAT SIN BECAUSE HE DIDN’T CHANGE HIS BEHAVIOR … AND GOD HARDENED PHAROAH’S HEART EVEN FURTHER. FEELING BAD IS NOT REPENTENCE, GOD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL, HE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU DO … Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! JOHN THE BAPTIZER ADDRESSED THIS: Mt 3:7But when he JOHN THE BAPTIZER saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. JESUS ALSO ADDRESSED THIS IN THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS Mt 21: 28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ 29And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went. 30And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. 31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” BACK TO MOSES IN EX 10 The Ninth Plague: Darkness 20But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go. 21Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, NO FIRES, NO CANDLES … NOTHING … SO MUCH FOR RA THE SUN GOD … PITCH BLACK but all the people of Israel had light where they lived. 24Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.” STILL DOESN’T GET IT … THINKING HE CAN NEGOTIATE … PHAROAH DOESN’T “OBEY” ANYONE! 25But Moses said, PATIENTLY EXPLAINING IN THE FACE OF PHAROAH’S REBELLION … “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 26Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the Lord our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.” 27But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. 28Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.” 29Moses said, “As you say! I will not see your face again.” PHAROAH’S LAST WORD IS A THREAT … FEAR, ANGER AND REBELLION … STILL NO HUMBLE REPENTENCE IN THE FACE OF GOD’S HEAVY HANDED OBVIOUS SUPERNATURAL DISASTERS … I AM THE LORD AND THERE IS NO OTHER LIKE ME! … LET MY PEOPLE GO! AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 10 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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Exodus Chapter 9 Deep-Dive: Plagues Continue...
03/24/2025
Exodus Chapter 9 Deep-Dive: Plagues Continue...
Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 9 The Fifth Plague: Egyptian Livestock Die 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, 3behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks. KEEP IN MIND THAT ANIMALS THAT DIE OF DISEASE ARE INEDIBLE & YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE BYPRODUCTS SUCH AS THE HIDE, ALSO, NO MORE ANIMALS TO OFFER AS SACRIFICES TO THOSE EGYPTIAN GODS … 4But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.”’” 5And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” SO, THE LORD GAVE THEM A ONE DAY WARNING … A CHANCE FOR PHAROAH TO REPENT … 6And the next day the Lord did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died. 7And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. THINGS ARE PRETTY BAD IN EGYPT AT THIS POINT BUT PHAROAH WILL NOT GIVE UP HIS WORLD-VIEW, HE MAY STILL THINK THIS HEBREW GOD WILL EVENTUALLY GO AWAY OR BE DEFEATED … The Sixth Plague: Boils 8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh. 9It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast REGULAR ANIMALS SUCH AS CATS, DOGS, ETC … throughout all the land of Egypt.” 10So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast. 11And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians. THE MAGICIANS HAD TO TAKE SICK DAYS … 12But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. AGAIN, PHAROAH’S JOB IS TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS-QUO IN EGYPT … BUT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE AND DESCENDING INTO CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION The Seventh Plague: Hail 13Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. DEAD 16But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. KEEP IN MIND WHAT WE’VE LEARNED FROM Ez 20:6On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands. 7And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.’ 8But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. THIS IS NOT GOOD-GUY ISRAEL VS BAD-GUY EGYPT … THESE MIRACULOUS SIGNS ARE AS MUCH FOR ISRAEL AS FOR EGYPT AND THE REST OF THE WORLD. GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, ISRAEL, ARE JUST AS SINFUL AND NASTY AS THE EGYPTIANS … GOD IS TRYING TO GET EVERYONE’S ATTENTION … SO THAT MY NAME MAY BE PROCLAIMED IN ALL THE EARTH. CONSIDER THAT IN LIGHT OF Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. ISAIAH CH 45 … ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF … BACK TO MOSES SPEAKING TO PHAROAH ON BEHALF OF GOD … 16But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 17You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go. 18Behold, about this time tomorrow ANOTHER DAY’S WARNING FOR THE MOST POWERFUL HUMAN LEADER ON EARTH AT THAT TIME … I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 19Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’” 20Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, 21but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field. 22Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.” 23Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth LIGHTNING. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. 26Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail. 27Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU AND PROTECTED/WARNED MY PEOPLE AND ANIMALS FROM THE HAIL … 28Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” 29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth LAND OF EGYPT is the Lord’s. 30But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.” 31(The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.) MORE FOOD PROBLEMS 33So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. 34But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses. THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 9 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture.
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