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At this point in this series of blogs about God’s promise to bring our Savior into the world, we have completed a brief overview of the Ten Commandments, given to the covenant people through God’s chosen leader, Moses. The Israelites have heartily agreed to God’s plan to be a “holy” nation, His selected people to bring a blessing to the whole world. What happens next? Beginning with  Exodus 21 and extending through chapter 31, God gives His people instructions in three areas. Chapters 21-23 are a kind of “fleshing out” […]

The Ten Commandments were given to the Israelites to instruct them how to live holy lives under God’s rule. As we’ve learned earlier, God chose Israel to be His special nation, chosen above all the nations to inherit and advance the promise God made to Abraham to bless all nations through him. At this point in this marvelous story, God has made a covenant with Israel, chosen Moses to lead them, and has given them the Ten Commandments. We have considered the first four commandments about how God is to […]

Today, we resume our investigation into God’s preparation of the Israelites to participate in the promise God made to bless all nations through Abraham and his offspring. Through His miraculous power, God worked through Moses to free them from slavery, deliver them by parting the sea, and bring them to Mount Sinai, where He made a covenant with them. The covenant, to which the Israelites agreed, stated that God would choose them as a special nation, favored above all others, and that they would live under His authority as a […]

Today, we continue the story of how God prepared the Israelites to be a blessing to all nations, a promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12. will  After several generations of slavery in Egypt, God used Moses to free them and passed the privilege and responsibility of the promise to them. https://www.cosdavis.com/preparing-for-the-promise/  will catch you up or remind you of where we left off in last week’s blog. Through the marvelous stories we have been covering from the Garden of Eden to the present, we have learned much about who God […]

In last week’s blog, we learned about the role the nation of Israel was to play in God’s promise to bless the world through Abraham’s posterity. https://www.cosdavis.com/the-promise-and-gods-plan-for-israel//provides details of God’s plan for Israel’s unique relationship to Him and their task of blessing pagan nations by becoming a “holy”  nation and a “kingdom of priests”. Two months after being freed from slavery, Moses and the Israelites arrived at Sinai. Through Moses, God revealed His plans to the people, and their response was, “All the Lord has spoken, we will do!” Exodus […]

We were reminded in last week’s post that God doesn’t forget the details related to the promises He makes. https://www.cosdavis.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5646&action=edit&classic-editor&classic-editor__forget. We have followed the promise God made about His plan to bring the Messiah into the world through hundreds of years, beginning in the Garden of Eden, progressing through Abraham’s family, the captivity in Egypt, and the eventual exodus through the leadership of Moses. I am astounded as I review some of the details and circumstances through which God worked to bring about the story we will examine today. I wonder […]

If you have been following this series of blogs on God’s Promises, you may have noticed that I occasionally remind us that the particular story we are currently studying must be viewed in the larger context of what God is doing. Each story is a small piece of the much larger story. Additionally, we are to “read between the lines” of what is happening, to consider what is being told about God, the Author of the story. Each story we have considered, including the one today, is related to God’s […]

Today, we resume our search for important life-lessons from Exodus, chapters 13 and 14, where Moses and the Israelites were caught between the forces of Pharaoh and the sea. https://www.cosdavis.com/gods-promised-victory/ provides a review of two ways God works with His people to ensure victory in tough circumstances: He provides protection and guidance, and He enables us to overcome fear by trusting Him. What more can we learn from how Moses and the Israelites responded to their dilemma? What exactly was their dilemma? Imagine what they were facing: the sea in front […]