When the sons of Israel entered the Promised Land, certain cities were designated “Cities of refuge”. Priests were assigned to live in those cities. Their responsibility was also to act as judges. A city of refuge was for the person who was an unintentional killer. A person could run to a city of refuge […]
How many times have you started a project of some kind, and didn’t finish? Moses was not accused of that! Once the project of the Tent of Meeting was begun, it was finished! “… according to all that the LORD had commanded him, so he did. (Moses).” Exodus 40:16 When the Tent of Meeting was […]
The LORD asked Moses for the people to contribute to the making of the furniture, the tent and all that held the Tent of Meeting together. No money was involved, but the willingness of the people to give what they had. They were generous! Exodus 35:11-35 The LORD gave certain men the skills to make […]
Moses was, again, on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights. He was alone with the LORD. Whenever you spend time with the LORD, it will show in your attitude, in your approach to life and people. So it was in the life of Moses, although he didn’t know it, at first. And probably […]
The Israelites respected Moses. When Moses would go to the Tent of Meeting to meet with the LORD God, the people would come to the door of their tents and stand until Moses passed by. Exodus 33:7-8 When Moses entered the Tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the […]
Moses and Aaron, his brother, were on different pages in their walk with the LORD. Moses came down the Mount of Sinai, after spending 40 days and 40 nights in the LORD God’s presence. Aaron spent the same amount of time with the people at the foot of the mountain. Moses heard a noise, not […]
Moses was at the top of Mount Sinai and the LORD God told him to get down the mountain. Why? Because Moses’ people, not God’s people, were corrupting themselves. The LORD God knew what the people were doing, worshiping and carrying on before a gold calf that Aaron made. Exodus 32:7 The LORD God told […]
Aaron, Moses’ brother, was at the foot of Mount Sinai. He was left in charge of about two million people. Aaron, Moses may not be coming back, it’s been forty days and forty nights. The people were getting impatient; they needed a leader. Make us a god we can follow, we don’t know what has […]
When the LORD God finished speaking to Moses after 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai – God gave Moses back two tablets of stone, with the ten commandments written by the finger of God. He told Moses the specific man who would be given the skill and ability to make beautiful furniture and […]
The furnishings in the temple were for worship of God. The priests were given clothing, instructions, and the furnishings for the worship of God. Consider the laver, made of bronze. The priests were to wash their hands and feet from the water in the laver before they served the LORD. Exodus 30:19 The oil used […]