Day 35

V From the Exodus to the Crossing into Canaan - 1462-1422 B.C. ~ cont.

(1462 - 982 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1)

B. Time spent at Sinai (sometimes called Horeb) ~ cont.
f. Various laws given ~ cont.

(4) Laws involving others - Exodus 22:16-31; 23:1-9
(5)  Land and the Sabbath - Exodus 23:10-13
(6) Three national feasts - Exodus 23:14-19
2. God's covenant with Israel
a. Future conquest - Exodus 23:20-33
b. Altar built - Exodus 24:3-8
3. Moses goes to mount (Trip 5) - Exodus 24:1-2, 9-15
a. After 7 days instruction begins - Exodus 24:16-18
b. Tabernacle items
Materials - Exodus 25:1-9
Ark - Exodus 25:10-22
Table of shewbread - Exodus 25:23-30; Leviticus 24:5-9

{pages 151-156}

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.  (Exodus 24:8)

Literally?  Sprinkled blood on the people?

Gill - and sprinkled it on the people; not on the whole body of the people, who could not be brought nigh enough, and were too numerous to be all sprinkled with it; though the apostle so expresses it, a part being put for the whole, Heb_9:19 either this was sprinkled on the young men that offered the sacrifices in the name of all the people; or on the seventy elders, as the heads of them, so Aben Ezra; or upon the twelve pillars, which answered to the twelve tribes, and represented them as the altar did the Lord.

Nadab and Abihu - sons of Aaron and Elisheba.

Nadab - H5070 - From H5068; liberal; Nadab, the name of four Israelites.

• H5068 - A primitive root; to impel; hence to volunteer (as a soldier), to present spontaneously.

Abihu - H30 - From H1 and H1931; father (that is worshipper) of Him (that is God); Abihu, a son of Aaron.

Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.  (Exodus 24:9-10)

Father, knowing all, prepared Nadab and Abihu for the service of the tabernacle.  Designating what they would wear, eat, who they could marry, etc.  He laid out their future, all the while knowing that they would be destroyed for offering strange fire.  Some are vessels of honor and others of dishonor, all are in HIS hand.

2Ti 2:20  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

O' Lord, let the thoughts of our minds and the meditations of our hearts be solely on knowing You more intimately, day by day.  Let the manifestation of who we are be an accurate representation of You and Your glory.

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.  (Exodus 24:18)

Fasting...nourished on the Word of God only.  Our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus had a similar experience:

Mat 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.

forty = trials, probation and testings.  For a list of numbers and their biblical meanings, try this site.

I made a notation that Moses only substance in 40 days was the Word of the Lord.  Fasting is not something I have studied out sufficiently.  A web search using the word 'fasting' brought up 1 wikipedia article, 2 for weight loss and one on fasting and prayer.

Biblical fasting brought up several articles - I have not yet browsed these, but will save them for later:  Biblical Fasting and a Study on Biblical Fasting.  Both look interesting and worth the time and effort to 'sift' through.

May Father richly bless those who desire to know Him more intimately by spending time in HIS word.