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Exodus 40

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One year after God drew them out of slavery, he is encamped in them and they are ready for a journey to the Promised Land.

They don’t get to enter it for 40 years. It reminds me of Paul’s time of preparation. It reminds me of ours.

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Exodus 35:20-36:7

My church is studying through Ephesians and spiritual gifts came up. Today’s passage shows God giving people gifts through the Holy Spirit, to build up the body, as they were back then. Their talents were not ‘just’ talents–they were “filled…with the Spirit of God” who “filled them with skill” to work together to construct the Tabernacle and everything in it.

Exodus 31:12-35:3

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32:14–does God change his mind? Study notes: “See note on Jer 18:7-10; see also 2 Sam 24:16; Ps 106:45; Amos 7:1-6; James 5:16”. Will come back to this.

Exodus 23:20-24:18

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So, when God says in v. 30 “I will drive them out before you little by little” — doesn’t that mean he never really meant ‘total annihilation’–that those were just battle words? http://ichthus77.blogspot.com/2008/01/conquest-of-canaan.html

Genesis 39-45, Job 31-37

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The repetition of rituals help us remember what is important. They remembered Joseph’s bones (will take them to Shechem…remember?).

I can relate to Moses being the representative of the people to God, who are too afraid of Him. And I can relate to their wanting to go back to what they are used to, rather than trusting God to sustain them. Like Job, they are ignorant of what is going on behind the scenes.

Exodus 10-12, Psalm 136

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The ninth plague insulted Ra/Re (the sun god).

Jesus is the Passover Lamb. Makes more sense for the New Year to be in the Spring (Easter, resurrection)…rather than in the “dead” of winter.

See the last day’s post for topic of free will with reference to the hardening of pharaoh’s heart.

Exodus 7-9, Psalm 114

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God counts to 3 (like I do with my children), 3 times, with these plagues.

The first plague insulted Hapi (the Nile god), the second insulted Heqt, the fifth insulted Apis, Mnevis, Hathor, Khnum (animal-headed deities). God is making a statement: I am the God here.

The subject of free will comes up in reference to the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, but it was in accordance with Pharaoh’s real will. His changes of heart were never for positive reasons, and he always went back on his word…back to his real will. God just …affirmed that.

Exodus 4-6, Psalm 106

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Psalm 106 is a wonderful psalm about forgiveness.

I can relate to Moses’ apprehension to be God’s mouthpiece, and the people’s ignoring Moses, even after the signs, once their labors increased.

Exodus 1-3, Psalm 105

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It is 400 years after the prophesy to Abraham (Genesis 15:14) and the Israelites are living in Egypt in Goshen, where they settled after Joseph brought his family down from Canaan. But the pharaoh is not the pharaoh Joseph knew, and this one tries to reduce their number through infanticide (which Moses escapes–God thwarting pharaoh’s goals from the beginning) and has enslaved them for his building projects. Moses begins defending his people, but in such a way that pharaoh seeks to kill him, and he flees to Midian (gets it’s name from one of Abraham’s sons). And again, like others before him, we see him meeting his lady at a well.

It is interesting that the ground is made holy by God’s presence…wherever God is, there it is holy ground. And we are indwelt.

The same “I AM” God is claiming to be…Jesus claims to be later on down the road of this narrative.

The ‘plunder’ according to my notes is in accordance with “the principle of providing gifts to a released slave” which Israel later lives by (Deut 15:12-15).