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Exodus 20-40

Notes Outline
CHAPTER 19 - INITIAL COVENANT CONFIRMATION
CHAPTER 20-23 - LAW OF THE COVENANT
CHAPTER 24 - COVENANT CONFIRMED
CHAPTER 25-31 - TABERNACLE INSTRUCTIONS
CHAPTER 32 - GOLDEN CALF
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35-40

CHAPTER 19 - INITIAL COVENANT CONFIRMATION

CHAPTER 20-23 - LAW OF THE COVENANT

 

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CHAPTER 24 - COVENANT CONFIRMED

CHAPTER 25-31 - TABERNACLE INSTRUCTIONS

CHAPTER 32 - GOLDEN CALF

    1. Calf constructed
      1. He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” Exodus 32:4–5 (NAS)
    2. God plans to destroy Israel but Moses intercedes
      1. Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.” Exodus 32:10 (NAS)
      2. Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people. “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ” So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people. Exodus 32:12–14 (NAS)
      3. notice what Moses does in his intercession. 
        1. God relents, does this mean God changed his mind?
        2. Moses comes down, gets angry, breaks the tables, destroys calf
        3. Moses instructs the tribe of Levi to kill those that acted rebellious.

CHAPTER 33

    1. God tells Moses to take them into the land of promise, but he is not going with them
    2. Moses goes into the tent and asks the Lord to still go with them
      1. Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?” Exodus 33:16 (NAS)
    3. What makes Israel distinct?
      1. Moses asks to know what Yahweh is like 
      2. Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.” Exodus 33:13 (NAS)
      3. Moses has watched the way Yahweh has related to the nation in mercy and needs to know the ways of this particular Elohim that he is following.

CHAPTER 34

    1. Moses goes back up the mountain 
    2. God tells Moses his name (his character)
      1. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord. Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” Exodus 34:5–7 (NAS)
      2. This becomes the most quoted portion of scripture in other parts of scripture 
      3. Moses immediately intercedes based on the name of the Lord
        1. God renews the covenant 
        2. Moses rewrites the Law (on mountain 40 days 40 nights)
        3. Moses comes down with shining face

CHAPTER 35-40

    1. Constructing the tabernacle and priestly garments 
    2. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out; but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up. For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel. Exodus 40:34–38 (NAS)
    3. Tabernacle is a mini Eden, where the presence of God resides. 
      1. Sacred space 
      2. Common vs. holy
      3. Humans were created to be able to enter sacred space. Now great measures must be taken for them to do so.