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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, August 21, 2021
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Fulfillment of the Covenant Bible Verse:Exodus 40:33-38 (ESV) "And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys." Message:
Thus ends Exodus. It is a happy ending: the Covenant has been reaffirmed and God is with the Hebrews, His presence guiding them directly. The pillar of cloud and light which had gone before them when they left Egypt now resides in the magnificent tabernacle they have built.
Even if life gives you a thousand reasons to quit . . .
It took them sixty days to travel from Egypt to Mount Sinai, and they stayed at Sinai for a total of about two years. (We do not know how long it took to build the Tabernacle.) The forty years in the wilderness did not occur at Sinai, but to the east, in the Wilderness of Paran. After an unsuccessful attempt to invade Canaan from the south, they will travel north up the right bank of the Jordan and eventually, led by Joshua, invade Canaan from the east.
Exodus Map - Hammond Exodus Map 2
Reading Exodus closely has been quite a journey for us, as well. We hope it has meant as much to all of you as it has to us, but it was a bit exhausting: do not look forward to reading Leviticus cover-to-cover on Daily Prayer any time soon!
Of the three remaining books of the Pentateuch, Leviticus is the most tedious to read. It consists entirely of an exhaustive collection of laws and rituals for the guidance of daily life.
Much of Deuteronomy, similarly, consists of discussion of laws, although it is more oriented towards how the Hebrews will conduct themselves once they have entered Canaan. It also recapitulates much of Exodus. But Deuteronomy appears to end the Hebrew wilderness saga, for it ends as the Hebrews are about to enter Canaan. Moses dies without entering the Promised Land, and Joshua is named as his successor.
Numbers is an odd duck, as it is outside the time flow of the four-book epic. The history of God and man, from the beginning of time until the Hebrews enter Canaan, is completed at the end of Deuteronomy. Numbers begins at Mt. Sinai with a census of the Hebrews — hence its name. A census, as we discussed previously, was a preparation for war, and Numbers concerns itself much more with matters of conquest and land division than the other books of the Pentateuch. It also gives more detail about the forty-year journey to Canaan, with many anecdotes not found elsewhere.
There are interesting matters in all three books, especially for the serious Bible scholar, but if you want to read one or more of them, be forewarned: they are heavy sledding. Numbers is probably the most readable, but even it contains thousands of words about legal minutiae; it is actually longer than Exodus.
[Note: We have omitted Exodus 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, and most of 40. These chapters are long and detailed descriptions of the actual construction of the Tabernacle. They are substantially identical to Chapters 25-31. If you have committed to reading Exodus cover-to-cover, use the links given or read them in your own Bible.]
Meditation : Prayer : God of mercy, swift to help: as my lips pour forth your praise, fill my heart with the peace you give to those who wait for your salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord.....Amen |
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