Day 6

God begins Exodus 32, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain.” Moses had been up on Mount Sinai with the Lord for forty days (Exodus 24:18), receiving all of the details on how to build the Tabernacle, its articles, the outer court, and the Holy of Holies. Forty days may have seemed like a long time to the ...

God knew the hearts of the Israelites long before He chose them to be His people, His nation, and, of course, God knew their hearts were obstinate (stubborn, headstrong, self-willed). Nonetheless, God still chose them to be His people to proclaim Him to all other nations. We read in Exodus 32:7–15 that God was ready to wipe out the Israelites...

God had given Moses the two tablets on which God had written all of His commandments. Though we know we have God’s Holy Word in written form today through the Bible, it’s hard to imagine having something that God's own hand wrote on. As Moses and Joshua approached the camp, they heard singing. When Moses saw the golden calf and the people sin...

God used Moses to confront Aaron since Aaron allowed the people to act upon their sin of idolatry. Also, don’t miss Aaron’s lame excuse as Aaron answers Moses in Exodus 32:24—“I said to them, ’Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off. ’So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf,”—as if the calf just appeared...

Moses called the people to repent and dedicate themselves fully to God. Then, the next day, Moses went back up to Mount Sinai to pray and ask the Lord to forgive the people’s sin. As Moses is talking to God in Exodus 32:31–32, Moses says this: “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves. 32 Bu...

In Exodus 33, God told Moses to go and lead the people into the Promised Land and that He would send an angel with them but that He was not going. God said in Exodus 33:5, For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, p...

In Exodus 35, Moses returned to Mount Sinai and spent another forty days and nights with our Lord. God told Moses he must carve out two new tablets and bring them with him. God planned to give Moses all of the commands He had given on the first two tablets. In Exodus 34:1, God told Moses, “I will write on the tablets the words that were on th...