Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty-Four (Concluded] Living with an Unveiled Face. In the conclusion of this chapter God lays out commands including every person appearing three times a year before the Lord. These three feasts represent the three personal experiences available to us in God: Salvation, Baptism in the Spirit and the Baptism of Fire. We see […]
READ MORE Today: [Leviticus Twenty-Three] Celebrating the Feasts of the Lord. Are we required to keep the Jewish holy days? What is their meaning to us? What do they tell us about who Jesus is to us? Do they foreshadow events yet to be fulfilled in the last days? In this chapter God instructs Moses regarding the […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty-Four] Ascending the Mountain of God. Moses makes a sixth and final ascent to God. During this experience God comes and stands by Moses in His glory. He declares himself “the Lord declaring the Lord-God”. When God declares Himself to Moses there is a change in heart and suddenly Moses gains more of […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty-Three] Show Me Thy Glory! God informs Moses that they people are permitted to go into the promised land. They are assured that every promise made from Abraham to their present day would be completely fulfilled. With one exception – God himself would not be going with them. They had proven resistant to […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty-Two] Surviving Divine Delay. Moses is long in returning from the mountain with God. The Israelites falter and take matters into the own hands with disastrous results. Aaron, left in charge in Moses’ absence caves in under pressure and the resulting events cost thousands of lives. There are many times that the waiting […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty-One] Filled with the Spirit, Empowered for Destiny. God fills a man named Bezaleel with the Spirit to build the tabernacle (Mishkan) in the wilderness. There are six references to being filled with the Spirit, three of them in Exodus. This filling gave Bezaleel wisdom, knowledge and understanding. There are seven Spirits of […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty (Concluded)] The Sacred Incense. God instructs Moses regarding the ingredients of the incense used in the Tabernacle. This incense was revealed of John the Revelator on the Isle of Patmos to be a type of prayer. Luther said “it seems that God will do nothing other than in response to heartfelt prayer”. […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty (Continued)] The Shekel of the Sanctuary and the Looking Glass of God The requirement of yearly ransom with the “shekel of the sanctuary” is established. All of this speaks to us of Christ and introduces the thought of currency as connected with the Kingdom. What is the currency of the Kingdom and […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty (Continued)] Prayer – and the Currency of the Kingdom. God instructs Moses regarding the schedule for the offering of the sacred incense. The requirement of yearly ransom with the “shekel of the sanctuary” is established. All of this speaks to us of Christ and introduces the thought of currency as connected with […]
READ MORE Today:[Exodus Chapter Thirty] Moving from Fellowship to Relationship. God instructs Moses regarding a second altar in the tabernacle – an altar of incense. The first altar speaks of receiving Jesus as our savior, the second altar speaks of receiving Jesus as our lord. The first altar established fellowship with God the second altar moves us […]
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