Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of the daily Bible podcast. Your phone's going off. I got a notification. Yep. It buzzed on me. It is the notification that it is time to start the podcast. That's something like that. Anyways, you asked a question at the end of our podcast yesterday. Why don't you reframe that question in case we had some listeners that were not able to tune in yesterday. I sure hope they did, but to rephrase it for everybody, here's what we said. We're looking at the new covenant not new covenant as in the New Testament. We're looking at a new covenant under Moses Mediation he's receiving the law and God is committing to do certain things for them and their job is to respond To him and doing certain things for him as it were. And so my question is how does the Mosaic Covenant fit with or How does the Mosaic Covenant accentuate or supplement the Abrahamic Covenant? So the Abrahamic Covenant we just read about in Genesis chapters 12 and then 15 We find that God makes a covenant with him that seems to be forever and always and yet now we have this new covenant under Moses, how do we put these two pieces together? I know someone's asking it I just thought I would ask it for them to you and see how you respond to that. It's very you do that it's my pleasure. I think about everybody who listens and I say what would they ask? Here we go Yeah. So Abrahamic covenant, a lot of times we'll talk about two phrases here that are important for us. Phrase number one is a conditional covenant and phrase number two is an unconditional covenant. The Abrahamic covenant was an unconditional covenant, meaning there was nothing. From Abraham's perspective or point of view that was required of him in order for God to fulfill his end of the covenant. If you remember that's, we talked about it. Abraham was put into a deep sleep and God cut the animals and the torch passed through the animals. That was indicative of the fact that was God in a unilateral way, binding himself to these promises of the Abrahamic covenant, including the land, the promise, the descendants the land of the descendants and the what am I forgetting? Land, seed, and blessing. Thank you. That's a better way to put it on. I don't know why I didn't say that. Yeah. Land, seed, and blessing. And the biggest of that is the one, the offspring through whom all the families of the earth would be blessed. And that we know Paul calls in Galatians three, the gospel, because it was pointing to Jesus. So what do we do then with the Mosaic law? Does the Mosaic law replace or abrogate the Abrahamic covenant? And the answer is no, the Mosaic covenant was not an unconditional covenant. So because the Abrahamic. Abrahamic covenant was unconditional. It is running concurrent or parallel to the Mosaic covenant. The Mosaic covenant was God's covenant with the people of Israel informing them during that dispensation, the dispensation of the giving of the law, the dispensation of the law. How they should connect with or relate to rather God during that period of time. And so this was a conditional covenant carrying blessings and cursings as we're going to see later on in the law for when Israel would obey, God said, this is what I'll do when you disobey. God said, this is what I'll do, but nowhere is the Abrahamic covenant called into question as far as if you disobey me, I'm going to renege on the Abrahamic covenant. I'm not going to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant. And that was. A different covenant, a different set of promises that God made to Abraham that were again, unconditional. God was going to fulfill those no matter what the mosaic law given to Israel. And Paul says in Galatians two, until the Christ should appear. In fact, he calls it a tutor. He calls it this presence that was meant to show people that they needed deliverance, that they needed salvation. And that was what the law was meant to do until Christ appeared. And when Christ came, the fulfillment of The law then in that sense for that purpose was set aside and it became a tool instead to show us that we need Crest, which is how Ray Comfort uses it and others when he goes out and does the man on the street interviews when he goes to the Old Testament law says, Hey, look at this. You're a line thieving, stealing adulterer, fornicator, so forth and so on as he as he does with the people that he talks with. So you said that the two covenants run in parallel. Is there any sense in which the Mosaic covenant sits inside of the Abrahamic covenant and is supported by that as a backdrop? Or are we thinking about it the right way? If we say that the Mosaic covenant fits inside of the Abrahamic? Or are they two separate things entirely? I mean, God's doing one. He's there's one story that guy's working on. He's not writing two storylines at the same time. And so if that's what you're implying or driving out there by being inside of I mean, I'm trying to get to the, There's multiple covenants in the Old Testament. We have the Abrahamic as the backdrop covenant, right? You have the mosaic, you have the Noahic, you have the Davidic. So how do these covenants, and I guess that's what I'm trying to get to. So how the covenants all fit together are they all glued together as it were through the Abrahamic covenants or do they function separately but concurrently? Right. It's all part of the unfolding of the Abrahamic covenant. So they're all offshoots of the Abrahamic covenant, right? Even though some of those are conditional, right? God's covenant to Abraham is the unconditional unilateral covenant that will carry us through all the way to the Christ. Correct. Yeah. That's simple. Why'd you just say that? I don't know, because I'm sure some of you guys are like, what are they saying with no way? David? I don't understand. Hopefully it's helpful. Hopefully some of those things can be a help to you and we'll work through some of them as we get to it. In fact, one of the questions I'm going to have related to this is when, God says to Moses, look, stand back. I'm going to destroy these guys. And we're going to start over with you. If God's covenant with Abraham is unconditional. What do we make of that? And we'll get to that when we get there. Yes, we will. Can't wait to get there. Hope you guys can't either. Yeah. Hey Exodus is 22, 23, 24. As I text for the today, which doesn't have that in it, by the way. So you're gonna have to wait even longer. 21 through 15, we get more laws about the nation here are laws about property, making restitution when one has caused harm to another's possessions, what to do when an animal hurts another animal. And this may be one of those situations where you're tempted to say, okay, how do I relate to this? Because I don't have oxen in my ox. Isn't going to go or another ox. And I'm going to not going to steal someone's beast. And it's not going to be found alive in my possession. What do I do with this? Remember you're dealing culturally with a very agrarian culture. And in other words, this was a culture of farming and shepherding. And This was very relevant to the people that these laws were given to, but there are principles that we can pull out and understand, even though we're not dealing with oxen and so forth and so on. Even if we could just take a look here, God assumes ownership. Yep, god assumes possessions that should tell you already we're on a we're on a different ground entirely from the communist approach We assume that god entrusts things to the stewardship of people and god would call that possession So he assumes that they Own the ox and that they're responsible for the ox. So possession assumes responsibility assumes culpability. If that possession goes awry, I think there's a lot of application there in today's modern vernacular. So we could look at your car. If your car has bald tires such that you can't stop and you hit another car. You're obviously obviously if you hit the car you're guilty already because you didn't stop in time, but you could look at your car and say I should have had new tires on that. That would have allowed me to stop appropriately. I think that's a very similar and applicable approach here. You are owner of the car and therefore you're responsible for the car's upkeep, including making sure that it does what it's supposed to do when it's on the road. Yeah. Great connection point there. Yeah. Versus 16 chapter 22, all the way into chapter 23, verse nine, we get laws regarding right treatment of others in society. That, Title here is in this can throw a curve ball because of the, it's the ESV is liberal. Yeah. Laws about social justice less. So today is it really a thing that is being bantered around and talked about, it got replaced by the idea of being woke. And now it seems that it's not really something that, that a lot of people are talking about too much, but this is not social justice. The way our culture was defining social justice recently, this is social justice in its truest sense of the term when it comes to society and the rights of people in society, the vulnerable, the weak, especially how does God want the Israelites to treat them? How does God want the Israelites to care for them? And God is concerned that people not be wicked and evil here. And he says in verse. Chapter 23 verse seven, and this kind of sums up a lot of the point here. He says, I will not acquit the wicked. I will not acquit the wicked. And that's what he's concerned about here. Those that are in positions of vulnerability or weakness, God wants Israel to take care of those people and not to extort them, not to to take advantage of their situations for the benefit of those that are stronger than them. And I would say those laws are good. We should, as a church, still. Embrace those laws today. We should care for those that are weaker, those that have needs that are evident in the church. We should take care of the vulnerable. And that's something that is good for us to do. Okay. So you said something that I want to follow up with. You said that the church should do these things today. To what degree should we apply these case laws to our own Experience today as new testament christians. Yeah, I think when they're specifically repeated within the new testament I think we have obviously we have solid ground there. So I'm thinking of in timothy and in james there's instructions given to the church on how to care for those that are in positions of neediness there Okay, so let me throw one at you then verse 9 and chapter 23. You shall not oppress a sojourner You know the heart of a sojourner for you were sojourners in the land of egypt I think people are going to use this and say look we have sojourners that are In our borders right now are used to be a porous borders. So isn't it oppressive of us to say, Hey, you don't belong here. Is this administration right in doing what they're doing? Because the Bible says you shouldn't impress them. You should take care of the sojourner because you used to be those people. Right? Yeah. And I would say we have laws in place in our nation that allow for people to come in as sojourners, as aliens, as strangers, as immigrants that are That is right and legal. We don't have a closed off border in the sense that we're saying as a nation, Hey, nobody's allowed to come into our country right now. We just have ways to care for the nation, to secure our nation, to make sure that we're not being foolish in the way we go about these things, to vet those that are coming in as any nation would. And I think Israel probably would do the same thing. They're not going to let, Philistine spy come in their midst and hang out in their midst with nefarious means towards hurting the nation there. They're going to Protect the people and protect what's going on there. So I think what's being thrown out there is, Hey, we need to take care of the sojourners and the illegal immigrants and the refugees. And a lot of people will say Jesus was a refugee and that whole argument. I think it's a false premise because they're saying we need to turn the other eye, turn a blind eye to the injustice being committed. This is a crime, right? In fact, one of our. Our press secretary was put on the spot, I think it was a week ago, maybe a week and a half ago. And somebody said of the, those that are in the country right now that are targets of being deported right now, how many of them have committed a crime? Would you say? And her response was brilliant. She said all of them have. Because all of them are here illegally. They've broken our laws when it comes to immigration. And so thus they're exposed to in subject to our laws regarding deportation of them. We have means for people to come into our country as those that are legally here. And I think in that sense, yeah, we as a church should welcome somebody who is here. That is, is of a different culture, a different background, a different nationality. We should look at this as a gospel opportunity, but also we need to understand that it's not. It's not feasible for a country to just have porous borders and still exist and still have law abiding citizens and still have an economy that's going to work. And we should be concerned about those things as well. Indeed. And there's also a difference between the United States and national Israel. Totally. See, this is where you start getting into the weeds and saying, okay, what do we apply? How do we apply it? One of the questions we have to ask is who is God talking to here? And is this for national Israel or is this something that we as Americans in 2025 should apply? Okay. Bye. And sometimes the answer is maybe there's principles that we should we should esteem and understand. And that's what I'm applying to my life here. I was, you read through this, you should be reading with the sense of saying, okay what is applicable and how do we apply it where you see the character of God on display and you should apply that. In fact, in verse nine, caring for the sojourner, not oppressing them. The heart of God is on display, loving your neighbor, not trying to be not trying to be Someone who's unnecessarily rigid or harsh or mean spirited or what have you. God cares about people and so should you, but that doesn't always mean a one to one translation from national Israel to the United States. Yeah. Yes, indeed. Versus 10 through 19. Then we move into a period focused on the Sabbath laws and also the institution of three annual feasts. And these are the big three that the Israelites, all of them were to observe and all of them were to to participate in all the males were required to be there later on when this came to Jerusalem. But these three feasts, you get number one, the feast of unleavened bread, that is the feast regarding Passover. These are the seven days eating unleavened bread. And then on the seventh day you have the Passover feast there. And then the second feast is the feast of the harvest. This is the wheat harvest. This is also associated in the new Testament with the day of Pentecost. This is the feast of Pentecost or the feast of weeks. And then the final feast is the feast of the ingathering. And that would have been similar to the feast of booths, the feast of tabernacles that we actually have looked at recently in the gospel of John. And so Jesus. Jesus God through Moses here is laying out these feasts of celebration and remembrance and thanksgiving to God for different things that God is going to be doing, including Passover, the harvest and the bringing in of the rest of the fruits and so forth in the feast of booth there. Verses 20 through 33. Then in chapter 23 God promises here to go before his people. And this is interesting. He says, I'm gonna send my angel before you. There are some that believe this is the angel of the Lord. It, it doesn't say in the ESV, the angel of the Lord, but it does imply that this is an angel that's going to go before them that's going to. Act on behalf of God that's going to even speak to them. And they say, pay careful attention to him, obey his voice, do not rebel against him. So it's possible PR. I don't know if you have any thoughts on whether or not this is the angel of the Lord, second person of the Trinity here, if this is just an. Unnamed angel that we're not sure of in this context, but whatever it is It's an angel with authority of god behind him. He says my name is in him So we're gonna say that's about as much as we can say with confidence. Yeah. Yeah So the angel's gonna go before and they need to listen to him obey his instructions And if they do that again, here's part of the conditional elements of this Then he's going to drive out the people from before the israelites to bring them into the promised land So there's the promise that god would again fight for israel's name god fights That he would do that he would go before them and drive the people out of the promised land Chapter 24, then God shows up again here and it's to Moses and Aaron and now the elders of Israel all together. So Back to the question from yesterday if in exodus 24, he's showing up to Moses and Aaron and the elders Then that would imply that the elders are already there. Yes seem so so There was elders back when they were in bondage at Egypt So there were elders already that were identified. It just seems like what happens after Jethro is that Moses says, okay I'm going to make sure that we have a structure in place that allow people to have their needs met and their questions answered before They all come to me. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And then in chapter 24 here God calls Moses up to the mountain And he is going to give him here that the two tablets, these are the 10 commandments, as we often think of them as the tablets that Charlton Heston is holding as he is up on the mountain there. So these are the first tablets we're going to see that there's going to be more, and there's going to be a reason for that as we'll find out as the the events of the exodus continue to unfold here, but first two tablets given to Moses here in chapter 24, what's up with this meal that they have versus nine through. 9 11, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, 70 of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel, there was under his feet, as it were, a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness, and he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel. They beheld God, and ate and drank. That stood out to me as being I've seen this before but pretty remarkable. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah They're seeing god. They're seeing this vision. They're like, what's for dinner? I'm hungry guys bring You guys got who's got the brisket? Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, but it's remarkable because god displays himself in some mitigated way Obviously not the full revelation of his glory Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to live but he shows himself in some way that they see something about him and they are Great And he didn't lay his hand on them. He didn't judge them for that because they, as sinners saw him, he allowed them to partake in that heavenly meal, which is pretty remarkable again, to say the least. Yeah. And it's a reminder too, that meals were an act of celebration at that time. And I think we've lost some of that today. I think we look at more of just something to sustain our bodies as you have to do. You have to eat three meals a day, but here, I mean, Meals were an act of celebration that these feasts, like we talked about earlier in this episode, these were opportunities to gather together. And the feast was, it was just that it was a feast involved eating and drinking. There was joy and there was celebration about that to celebrate something about God. And so it seems like it, it's here, this celebration of the event. This is significant what's happening here. And so there, there are a lot, and we have some. Of this that's carry over like birthdays speaking of which somebody's got a birthday coming up in the room here. It's not me That's right mark, but he's not actually in the room. Okay? Somebody else in the room who may be on this podcast not me again Not me, but somebody else on this podcast has a birthday coming up a significant one turning 40 or something like that for decades of Life, I don't know marks not that old. I'm just well somebody else's is about to be anyways We have birthdays. And so what do you do on a birthday? What are you going to do? What, you have a favorite meal that your wife is going to prepare for. You're going to go out to eat. So we understand it a little bit. I think that the ancient Israelite culture just celebrated things better than we do today. Absolutely. Yeah. Speaking of that, Moses ends this chapter by fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. Should anybody do this? No. Why not? Because this is a supernatural enablement of this where God is sustaining Moses during this time. You should not go on a Moses fasting, fasting plan. That would not go well. Yeah. Yeah. All right, on that note, let's let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode God, thanks for your law that you've given to us. Thanks for glimpses into things that maybe we never noticed before the people stopping and eating in your presence and it reminded me even as pastor I was talking about that of the feast that all of us in the church will be a part of the marriage supper of the lamb and what that will be like where we will be gathered together and feasting eating in the presence of Jesus our savior and we We can't but Imagine and think about what that day will be like, but we have no clue just how amazing that will be to be there. And we long for that day. But in the meantime, as I often say, help us to be faithful right now with what you've called us to do as we await the return of our bride groom, as we await the return of Christ. And so we pray this in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast. Bye everybody. Bye.

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