Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of the daily bible podcast. Yes, indeed. Thank you so much for coming back We love you so much for being here Otherwise, this would be really weird that we just talk in an office for 30 minutes at a time talking about the bible Just you and I yeah sending it out into the ether and having no one listen to it. That's true We'll be a lot of people listen, please But maybe invite somebody else to listen with you invite your tens and tens of People to listen and have them invite tens and tens of people. And eventually over the course of 25 years or so, we might reach about 50 people. Right? Maybe this could be a good thing. Hey, did you get your free cup of coffee today? You know what my plan is, yes, I fully intend to take advantage of my free cup of coffee at Starbucks because I've had the Starbucks membership thing for years now and I want to use it. I don't really use it much out here. I'm surprised by that. 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Pastor Rod's turning 40 on Wednesday. Everybody. Oof. Just to let everybody know. Yep, that's true. All of you listen as far as I know. That's true. There you go. So celebrate him because we love him and he's worthy of our, of our honor and praise. Yeah, He's a me nervous. He's above reproach. He's an Irreproachable Irreproachable above, above reproach, which is a qualification of our office. Of our, like our new office. No. Although it's a few days before we get there. I'm excited about that. I'm excited about that too. I can't wait to have some more space. I was just sitting in my office today and just, I hit the wall when I leaned back and I'm like, Oh, I can't wait for that not to happen anymore. I hope that I was thinking about these offices when we first walked in, they had those weird, like wooden desks, like stage desks in here and it was, They were made of cardboard. I think they were. Yeah, they broke very easily. Yeah I thought we could get by cuz I'm like, let's just embrace the mentality, you know, we're church planners church plan We're gonna do the hard thing. It's winners when we type our sermons. That's right And then I realized they weren't gonna work They were falling apart as you touch them and you try to move them out of the and you can't move them at all No, that would be a big problem for you. It was the worst thing ever. So I'm glad we went up with these He's very nice 300 I think my I was like, there's the 300. Yeah. I feel good about that. They're standing and, you know, they're still their budget. They're still budget friendly. Yep. Yep. For sure. Hey X is 33, 34, 35. All right. So we're, we're, we're leaving Sana here. As the ESV superscript what's above it's at a super sub. So yeah. Superscript title. Title, section, header, yeah, those are better than superscript. But this is a cool chapter in chapter 33, coming off of chapter 32, which is low point chapter 33. Just a cool chapter. So showing some of the, just the intimacy that Moses shared with God it says in this chapter that God used to speak to him face to face as a man speaks to his friend. That's incredible. In fact, we just talked about that yesterday at church that, that. There's that desire that we have to say, that would be cool. I wish that God would speak to me face to face as, as a man speaks with his friend. And as I said in the sermon yesterday, just to harken back to that, I think what that reveals to us is that when we have that desire, when we read this and say, man. That would be cool. I think it reveals a deficiency in our understanding of the nature of the spirit's work and the nature of scripture. I think Moses would look at us holding the Bible in our hands and say, man, how great would that be to have God's revealed word in written form and be able to just carry it with you wherever you go and you've got it there and you have the access to the mind of God in the pages of scripture and beyond that, you've got the spirit dwelling within you permanently as Christians to help you understand these things. Just. But my son Joshua was asking me on Saturday, he asked me the question. He said, when did Moses write all of these things? Insightful question. Good question to ask because we believe Moses wrote the first five books of the Pentateuch. And I don't think he sat down and wrote it all in one fell swoop. But I'm thinking that as he went in in these times to meet with God face to face, that these were some of the times that God was unpacking for him and revealing to him all that he had done. When you consider all of Joseph's life and, and, you know, from the very beginning, Adam and Eve creation, everything else like that. When did Moses learn all that? I think it's in these times, like we see in. Chapter 33 and other times where he's having these conversations with God, where I think God is revealing to him, that's going to be what he's going to use to produce the first five books there. Absolutely. And on top of that, he probably had some editorial help. Certainly he had help at the end of his five books when he records his death. Yeah, he didn't write that pretty sure about that. So even with him writing it and being the primary author behind it, we would still be able to say there's room for editorial help that doesn't compromise The the authorial intent of God. Hey, quick question here. It talks about Moses meeting God face to face and yet in verse 20 God says you can't see my face and live. So how do we put those two pieces together? Clearly moses is contradicting himself. The bible's not real christianity's not true. Let's just throw the whole thing out get rid of it Yeah, I had a note on that too. It's clearly it's metaphorical and I think I think sometimes we assume that we are far more advanced than people in the olden days, if I can put it that way, were the Israelites understood metaphor. They understood when he said, yeah, face to face that, that, that wasn't literally face to face. So when we read that and then we see verse 20, this is scripture helping us interpret scripture. And so that means, okay, this was just the, the closeness that Moses felt with God that he's stressing there, the intimacy that he felt with God that he's stressing there, not literally, I'm seeing God's face, especially John four, got a spirit, doesn't have a face, doesn't have a face. No. And so even if it were to be in the physical presence, in that sense, he wouldn't behold a physical face, which makes it interesting. Cause Moses says, Lord, I want to see your glory. And that's where we get in here. And then in chapter 34, where God. Answers that prayer and says I'm going to reveal myself to you, but I'm going to show you the backside of my glory What what does that mean because he doesn't have a backside because he's spirit the the eminence the presence that the the I think we see some of it in ezekiel whereas ezekiel's describing the throne and some of the colors and brilliance and everything like that, I think that's as close as we might be able to get as far as a parallel of of How he could have conceived of a person Physical emanation or physical presence of God. Yeah. I think there's probably the difference between mitigated and unmitigated displays of his glory. Moses is asking, show me your unmitigated, unfiltered, full throttle, eight K 16 K, whatever the number is, give me all of your glory that. That you have let me see that And god's like bro, you don't know what you're asking for step back. You couldn't handle it And so god says look I will give you not unmitigated display of my glory, but i'll give you a mitigated I'm gonna give you a taste of it a costco size sampler so that you understand some of it But you will never be able to see it at least this side of eternity Which I think this is one of the hopes of the christian life is that we will get to see his face to face We will get to experience his glory Unmitigated because we will be prepared by the spirit glorified such that we can receive it, enjoy it and respond to it appropriately. And I look forward to that day probably more than anything else. That's I'm excited to see what that is. If it would destroy us in our flesh and it would encourage us and enlighten us in our, I don't know, our renewed bodies, then that sounds pretty, pretty excited to me. Yeah. And I think a lot of it is, is. At least in my mind I often think about light when it comes to his glory and that's connected to the scriptures the concept of shekinah is the glory the the brilliance of light or even in eternity where John says I saw no temple In or I saw no there was no sun. That's what there's no sun because the The glory of God is there. And so the emanation of light coming from God himself is part of what is, is wrapped up in the glory of God, because it is a unique concept to think about. Okay. What is the glory of God look like? And I think blinding light is, is a part of that, you know, even Jesus, when he's transfigured on the Mount of Transfiguration, it says that his clothes became so white as, as no fuller, no bleacher, no launderer on earth could ever bleach them, just the brilliance of his purity displayed there. But it is going to be amazing to behold that in whatever capacity that we can behold that. It's exciting. Yeah. Chapter 34 also contains the covenant being renewed or reconfirmed. Yahweh brings Moses up on the mountain again and rewrites the law on two new tablets. Cause we didn't mention that, but Moses smashed the previous ones. In fact, God, God calls him out for that. He's like the tablets that you broke Moses, seriously, did you not see why I broke them? But yeah, this is the tablets that you broke. And so he replaces those he proclaims his promise to bring the people again into the land, to exchange their faithfulness to his laws and their devotion in their worship frame. So again, the, the mosaic covenant is a. A bilateral covenant. It's not unilateral the way the Abrahamic covenant was. The Mosaic covenant is you do this, I will do this. And so the land promise of the Abrahamic covenant is now, as far as temporarily, at least connected to contingencies. And I say temporarily because God is going to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant, no matter what the question is when, and so it's. Temporally contingent upon Israel's faithfulness in the Mosaic covenant. And so it's the Mosaic covenant, as we were talking about earlier is nestled within the promises of the Abrahamic covenant. And it's, it's the question becomes whether or not Israel is going to realize the blessings of the Abrahamic covenant through the obedience to the Mosaic covenant right now. Talk about easy Exodus 34 verses six and seven. The Lord passed before him and proclaim the Lord, the Lord of God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness. We love that part. Verse seven, keeping steadfast love for thousands. We also like that forgiving iniquity and transgression. And sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and to the fourth generation. How do we understand that in light of the fact that God says that he doesn't, he, he doesn't visit the sins of the fathers on the children. I think of chapters like, like that. Oh, man. Just losing my mind here. Ezekiel 18, I think it is where he says that he's not going to do that. So how do we put these two things together? Yeah, I think that the responsibility of the heads of the household, the responsibility of the leaders of the household, when sins can become generational sins, because in the family it's, it's witnessed, it's observed, it's seen, and it's passed on in that sense from one to another. It's a pattern, right? It's and what's, what's. Learned is not only what's taught, but also what's caught. And so as, as our kids see sin patterns in our life, how many times have we looked at our kids, especially as they grow older and we see something in them and we're like, Oh man. I got that for me. Yeah, they got that for me and I wish they hadn't. Yeah, I think that's what's on in in view Here is when we're rebellious man, the consequences are more than just our relationship with God But it's also the impact on on our families and the future and what they're seeing from us I mean, we're gonna get into the law and not too long and Deuteronomy 6 where he's gonna say Here's what you need to be doing You need to be teaching them and teaching your kids the commandments and the laws and everything else like that if you don't If you do, it's going to have positive impacts. If you don't, it's going to have negative impacts. And I think that's what's in view here. That's helpful. Chapter 35. Then we get into the materials for the construction of the tabernacle. And these are collected from the people. And again, this chapter emphasizes the free will nature of these offerings. Everyone whose heart moved them, everyone who desired to give did so. And so in chapter 35, we kind of get the inventory of what the Israelites brought to contribute to the construction. The building of the tabernacle itself, which we're going to get into in tomorrow's episode. Yeah. And there's going to be a lot of repetition here just to heads up again, when you read these things, it's meant to showcase Israel's doing the right thing. This is what God commanded them to do. This is what they built obeying the words of Moses, obeying the words of the Lord. So even though it's a bit repetitive, I think it'd be worth you at least marking your Bible Oh, God said this in Exodus chapter 27 and here they fulfill it in this particular chapter here. So be prepared for some repetition, but just know it's okay. This is what God intended for us to see and he wants to show Israel doing the right thing here. Yeah. In fact, I was thinking about that. I think yesterday, well, yesterday as we record this Friday morning, Dr. Mueller's episode of the briefing. There was a question from somebody who wrote and said, what do we do with some of the more as they turn them boring parts of the, the old Testament law, the repetitive parts. And Mueller's point was similar. He said, you know, this is God's, he's doing this on purpose. He wants us to pay attention to his detail. He's not like the other nations, the other nations, you know, people sat there and said, well, let's figure out how we want to worship God. The gods that we're creating of our own, of our own mind. God saying, I'm not going to let you sit back and think about how you want to worship me. I'm going to tell you how you're going to worship me. And so that's part of the prescriptions here in the laws and the descriptions and God saying, this is the tabernacle I want to be worshiped in. And this is how I want it to look. And so this is what it's going to be because I'm a holy God and you will love me and you will serve me that way. I'm into that. All right, let's pray. And then we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks for another another episode of this podcast, being able to do that and do this for our church. We're grateful for that. We are thankful that we get to worship you with a little bit more freedom in, in a different context than they did because we're on the backside of the cross because we know Christ is our savior. And so we are grateful Lord, certainly for that future that we are anticipating and praying for when we will be in your presence and see your, your full glory and whatever that is going to be like for us. What an amazing reality that is even revelation 21. one, that the first time ever that it will be said that God, the dwelling place of God is with man permanently will be there on the new earth. And so we are longing for that day and praying for that day. In the meantime, help us to be found faithful as I often pray. We ask this in Jesus name, amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast. See you then. Bye.

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