Day 40 – The God they made themselves
The God they made themselves Forty days. Moses has been on the mountain for forty days receiving the most detailed, sacred architectural instructions in human history. Below him, a nation is camped. The mountain is still smoking. The covenant is less than six weeks old. The blood of the covenant still fresh in their memory. […]
Day 39 – Dressed in Glory, Carrying Names
Dressed in Glory Carrying Names Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, before ink touched parchment, before Moses sat down in the wilderness to record what God had shown him – you were already in the mind of God Before You Were, He Was. Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, […]
Day 38 – Make me a dwelling place
Make me a dwelling place Moses has been on the mountain forty days. God is giving him detailed instructions for something that has never existed before: a portable sanctuary, a structure specifically designed for God to dwell among His people as they travel through the wilderness. Every measurement, every material, every colour is specified. Nothing […]
Day 37 – Sealed with Blood
Sealed with Blood The laws continue in chapters 22 and 23 — dozens of specific cases, each one a window into what God’s justice looks like when it touches the ground of real life. Restitution for stolen oxen. Care for a borrowed animal that gets hurt. The rights of a woman who has been taken […]
Day 36 – The Ten Word
The Ten Words Three months after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrive at Sinai. The mountain where Moses saw the burning bush. The mountain God named as the place where He would be worshipped. They have come full circle from the burning bush where God called one man, to the thundering mountain where He speaks to […]
Day 35 – Bread from Heaven and Arms that tire
Bread from Heaven and Arms that Tire Three days after the song on the far shore of the sea, the Israelites are complaining. Three days. The miracle that split an ocean and drowned an army is three days old, and the people are hungry, and the memory of Egypt is already starting to look romantic. […]
Day 34 – The Sea will make way
The sea will make way They are out. After four hundred years, after ten plagues, after a night of blood on the doorframe, after Pharaoh’s own voice said go the Israelites are walking out of Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of them. With their children. With their livestock. With the silver and gold and clothing the […]
Day 33 – The blood on the door
The blood on the door Nine plagues and Pharaoh has not moved. His heart has been hardened and softened and hardened again like metal worked in a forge. And God tells Moses something that should stop us: I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs […]
Day 32 – Every false god will fall
Every False god will fall The plagues are coming. And before we read them as spectacle frogs and flies and darkness and hail we need to understand what they actually were. Each plague was a direct confrontation with a specific Egyptian deity. The Nile was a god. The frog was sacred to Heqet, goddess of […]
Day 31 – Send Someone Else
Send Someone Else The burning bush is still burning. The voice of God is still speaking. And Moses is still finding reasons why this will not work. He has asked who God is. He has asked who he himself is. And now he starts working through his list of objections. What if they don’t believe […]
