Welcome to day 6 of Bible Food; the Word of God is excellent, let's see what it is to eat today!
Today's reading starts with
the children of Israel murmuring against Moses and Aaron, but really against the Lord and the Lord rained down manna down from for the people to eat. The manna tasted like coriander seed and wafers that were made with honey. I guess it was good.
They were in the wilderness in Sin and Rephidim, the people got thirsty and charged Moses for trying to kill them. And the Lord directed Moses in what to do. But with all this complaining the Lord sent Amalek to battle Israel, and Moses had to hold his hand up for Israel to win. And the Lord helps Israel.
Moses then meets with Jethro, his father-in-law, and Jethro teaches Moses how to judge the people by showing him how to have a chain of comm
and. Otherwise Moses was going to wear himself out judging the house of Israel. Then they left Rephidim and into Sinai and Moses meets with the Lord; and the Lord tells Moses to tell the people if they keep the Lord's charge they shall be a peculiar people to the Lord and a Kingdom of Priest. That means the children of Israel are to be the priest to the other nations in the world if they listen to the Lord.
The Lord then tells Moses to prepare for the Lord to visit them in 3 days, that he will come down on Mount Sinai. On the third day there were strong thunders and lightnings, and the mount was smoking like a furnace and with earthquakes, and it was extremely loud and the children of Israel were scared out
of their skin. The Lord was actually visiting them; this is the only encounter in which the God of the world appeared before an entire nation.
Then the Lord spoke giving them the ten commandment:
1) No other gods before God
2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth
3) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
6) Thou shalt not kill.
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8) Thou shalt not steal.
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour
The God of the Heaven and Earth showed up just to deliver these Ten Commandments, amazing, and He did so in a dramatic fashion to scare the people. And they were scared telling Moses to speak with God and they will listen to Moses.
After this Moses was given judgments the people are to follow. I'm sure these judgments are based on things the people were doing and what other nations were doing and did; like what your sentence is in kidnapping.
The eye for an eye statues are here; but they were here for people to stop doing violence. If a man sleeps with a woman, he shall surely make her his wife
, unless the father of the maid refuses, things like this were the judgments of the Lord.
The Lord talk about helping and not taking advantage of the poor, in chapter 23, and the LORD talks about keeping a feast 3 times a years (the Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of In gathering). The Lord then tells them an Angel will go in before them into the land of Canaan and will drive the people out with hornets. All the children of Israel had to do was not serve these people's gods.
Then in Exodus 24, the Lord visits Moses and 74 elders in the mount and they saw the God of Israel, God had feet, and a body, and hands. God did this with them because the people made a covenant with the people with
blood. WOW, 74 men saw the Lord in clearness!
Moses was then in the mountain with the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights, this is where the NBA playoffs get it from. The Lord tells Moses a lot of things, one is the directions on how to build the Tent of the Lord and the Ark of the Covenant, which represents the presence of the Lord! God is very precise in the design of the Temple Tent of the Meeting.
Lastly, the tribe of Levi were to be the priest unto the Lord to the other tribes of Israel and Aaron and his sons are to take the charge of the Lord's work in the congregation. The clothing for the priest is the last subject today. They were for Aaron to minister, the dress is like the Catholic Bishop of Rome wears minus the 12 tribes of Israel in his chest. We learned that the Lord goes in the real style people try to do today. Thanks for joining today for day six; see you tomorrow!
DDaniels
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