Tues.’s Devo - The Glory of God

Read Ex. 24:1-18 God called the leaders of Israel to come close to the mountain, but told them that only Moses could come near to God. Moses spoke before all the people and gave them all the laws and judgments of God and they agreed to follow them. Moses wrote them all down and built an altar to the Lord where he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to the Lord. He erected 12 pillars to stand for each of the tribes Moses took half of the blood of the slain oxen and put them on the basons and the altar then he took the book that he had written God’s words in and read it again and once again the people said they would obey it. Then he sprinkled the people with the rest of the blood to seal the covenant between God and them. (He probably sprinkled the 12 pillars which represented all the people.) Then Moses took Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu and the 70 elders up on the mountain and they got to see God from afar. He was standing on a pavement of sapphire that was clear because of its pureness. A few select other people got to see God and live. This time they weren’t scared to death… maybe it was because of the peace offering they had offered first. Then God called Moses up to the mountain to receive more tablets of stone where God had written laws and commandments. Joshua got to go half way up with him to wait for 6 days until God called him up to his presence. Notice the three places. The people were in the outer court (the furthest out), Joshua was in the inner court, and Moses was in the Holy of Holies where he stayed 40 days and 40 nights. Many people come to the outer courts and receive forgiveness of sins and receive salvation. Fewer come closer and offer up praise and worship before God and spend time to dine with him. Even fewer enter into the Holy of Holies and have an encounter with him where they see his manifested glory. Lord, we want to be the Moseses of our generation that draw near and see your glory.