Good Morning. And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” (Exodus 33:18) Moses understood that it was the Presence of the Holy One who distinguishes His people from all the other nations. When the people gave into the sin of the Golden Calf and God removed His Presence...

Good Morning. Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. (Exodus 33:13) Imagine being told that you are going to lead...

Good Morning. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. (Exodus 33:11) One of the reasons that Judaism places so much stock in the first five books of the Bible -- the Torah -- is because of this statement in the Scripture. Prophets were...

Good Morning. Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. (Exodus 33:7) After...

Good Morning. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ And I will send My Angel...

Good Morning. Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. (Exodus 32:34) After such a horrendous upheaval among God's people -- the rebellion, the aftermath of their sin and the drama of Moses'...

Good Morning. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” (Exodus...

Good Morning. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” (Exodus...

Good Morning. And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’...

Good Morning. And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’...

Good Morning. Then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. (Exodus 32:26) In the previous devotion, we addressed the need for boundaries and the role...

Good Morning. And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”...Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies). (Exodus 32:21, 25) Notice the...