Tag Archive | "exodus"
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This is where some of the repetition might start getting to us, as we wonder about and try to picture the tabernacle. The picture at right is from a great site i encourage you to head to for a few more details about the significance of each piece, and the meaning that Christ fulfilled in [...]
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ONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND Exodus 33 without grasping two things: (1) The tabernacle had not yet been built. The “tent of meeting” pitched outside the camp (33:7) where Moses went to seek the face of God must therefore have been a temporary arrangement. (2) The theme of judgment trails on from the wretched episode of the [...]
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Reading these three passages together, there is only one thing to talk about, temptation to sin! when i began to read the Exodus reading, I thought how cool to write about Oholiab and Bezalel, guys that God created with great gifts of craftsmanship, guys who’s skills had probably been honed in slavery and oppression. But [...]
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Here’s an excerpt from one of my books on Exodus 28…I think it helps give perspective to cryptic readings: THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS God prescribes (Ex. 28) are strange and colorful. Perhaps some of the details were not meant to carry symbolic weight, but were part of the purpose of the ensemble as a whole: to [...]
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Have you ever seen this verse before? 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and 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. 11 And he did [...]
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Exodus 12 is the book in a nutshell. It begins with a description of the Passover, the central symbol of the Jewish faith, it moves through the 10th plague, the plague of the first-born, which separated those who had faith in the Lord from those without, and lastly, to the event of the departure from [...]
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Take a few moment and watch this video from the prince of Egypt, it is very moving. You can also search on a Hebrew language version by Ofra Haza that is beautiful. I think that the imagery involved, and the passion of the song should resonate in our minds through the day as we encounter [...]