by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 23, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 23rd Exodus 34 | John 13 | Proverbs 10 | Ephesians 3 At the very end of Exodus 33, Moses had gone for broke. In the face of Yahweh’s threat to abandon Israel by withdrawing his own personal presence from their midst, Moses pleaded for Yahweh...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 22, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 22nd Exodus 33 | John 12 | Proverbs 9 | Ephesians 2 In Exodus 32 we saw the first part of the wrath of God against Israel’s monstrous idolatry, when they fashioned for themselves a golden calf to worship and then dared to call that golden calf...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 21, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 21st Exodus 32 | John 11 | Proverbs 8 | Ephesians 1 Exodus 32 includes one of the most famous—and most tragic—stories from the history of Israel, the scene where God’s people make for themselves a golden calf to worship while Moses is...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 20, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 20th Exodus 31 | John 10 | Proverbs 7 | Galatians 6 In Exodus 31, we find some of the clearest teaching in all the Bible about the purpose and importance of the Sabbath. In recent history, the fourth commandment to keep the Sabbath holy has...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 19, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 19th Exodus 30 | John 9 | Proverbs 6 | Galatians 5 Much of Exodus 30 is focused on an important aspect of tabernacle worship: the altar of incense (Ex. 30:1–10) and the recipe for the incense that would be burned on the altar (Ex. 30:34–38)....
by Jacob D. Gerber | Mar 18, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Exodus
Bible Readings for March 18th Exodus 29 | John 8 | Proverbs 5 | Galatians 4 In Exodus 29, we read about three distinct processes to prepare priests to be set apart for ministry, each with a unique and important theological value. The priests were to be washed with...
