Read: Exodus 34:1-35:9: Matthew 27:15-31; Psalm 33:12-22; Proverbs 9:1-6
Moses went back up the mountain to get the law the second time. This time God passed before him proclaiming his own name and what it meant. His name was Adonai and it means that God is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in grace and truth showing grace to the thousandth generation and forging sins, but causing negative effects of the parent’s offenses to their third and fourth generation. God made a covenant with them to be their God and they were not to make a covenant with any of the other nations. Instead, they were to demolish their altars, smash their idols and cut down their sacred poles. They were not to join them in their worship or intermarry with them because if they did, they would end up worshipping their gods.
There were three times a year the men were to meet together to worship the Lord. The first was during the time of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then the time of the Feast of Pentecost, and last the Feast of Tabernacles. These were times of harvest of the wheat, the barley and the fruit. They represented set times when God would visit his people as they offered their first fruits to him.
God also instructed them about the Sabbath which was the seventh day of the week. They were to completely rest to honor God because he rested on this day. In 2 Peter 3:8 it says that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. He was explaining that our natural week represents the total of time man will have on the earth. The last day represents the last millennium where Jesus will reign as King and we will live in rest. Every law that God gave them was to paint a picture of His spiritual concepts he wanted the people to act out in a picture for the future generations.
The last thing we read today was that God asked Moses to take up a collection of all the spoils of Egypt and donate them to make the things for the tabernacle.
In Matthew, Jesus is given a mock trial before the Roman governor. He tried to free Jesus by offering the worse criminal in his prison, thinking they would choose Jesus over Barabbas. Barabbas means Bar Abba (Son of father). Jesus was the Son of God, his Father, Barabbas was a son of Satan. They chose Barabbas and wanted Jesus crucified. The governor could find no fault in Jesus and washed his hands of the blood of Jesus. The Jews’ reply was, “let his blood be on us and on our children!” We just read about this in the Old Testament. The sins of the fathers are passed down to the children unless the curse is broken with the blood of Jesus.
Lord, help us to not live under the curse of our earthly fathers, but live under the blessings of a loving father who is merciful and gracious.
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