King James Daily Bible Study: Have You Forgotten?

King James Daily Bible Study: Have You Forgotten?
Date: Tuesday January 25, 2011
Chapters: Exodus 23-25
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Details of Today's Reading: The completion of the judicial laws, feasts to the Lord, God's promises of Canaan, God command Moses to write down His Wordsm Moses is called up to the mount, the glory of the Lord appears, offerings, and a dwelling place for God.

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No matter how good we try to be we all come short of the glory of God, of seeing the splendor and bliss of heaven. The Bible says, “Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.” - Psalm 106:3-5. Have you forgotten that you are saved? That you area part of His inheritance, a child of the living God through your faith and acceptance of His Son in your life?

God promised the Israelites that He would always be watching over them, bless them, and provide protection for them as long as they abide by His law. Though it may seem as though there were a lot of rules to follow, the purpose for all the rules was to cover all the basis. It's kind of like when a set of rules is enforced because one person had to do something no one else would do so, everyone else has to get the lecture too. Three times a year the Israelites were commanded by God to prepare a feast to Him, these feasts were in remembrance of all that God had done for them.

“Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field...And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” - Exodus 23:14-16,25.

The Passover was a reminder of their salvation when the death angel passed over them in Egypt and saved all who applied the blood of a lamb upon their doorpost. The Feast of the Harvest was to give thanks to the first harvest of the year and bless the rest of the year, and the Feast of Ingathering (Tabernacles) was to give thanks for a fruitful year of harvesting. Today, we too have feasts in remembrance of what God has done for us. We should all be reminded of the birth of Christ for without Christ there is no salvation. Every nation has some kind of celebration of a great harvest, such as Thanksgiving day, and every spring we are reminded of our Savior as Jesus became the lamb that would give His life and resurrect three days later to save all who apply His blood upon their souls.“For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.” - I Timothy 4:4,5.

God instructed Moses to write down all that He told him in a book, it was to be read to all, after he wrote down God's Word he built an altar and offered offerings to God. God used forty men, beginning with Moses to write down the words He told them to write. “The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” - Psalm 68:11.

“And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 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 24:4-8.

There is nothing more precious than blood, it is what sustains life, without it we would die, it is the most precious thing to God. The entire Book is about life giving blood. The blood of animals was temporarily offered to sustain life, but it was not something that lasted. Jesus Christ came to offer Himself as a mere animal in order to sustain life for eternity. Just one sprinkle of that blood is all we need to sustain our lives. “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?..And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission... So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” - Hebrews 9:14,22,28. Praise God!

God sent Moses up on the mount to retrieve the tablets of stone, as the people stood afar they saw something amazing and scary. “And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them...And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 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 24:12,15-18.

Did you ever look directly into the sun? It is so bright and amazing that it just hurts your eyes and blinds you. Did you ever notice a thunder storm? It is so amazing and scary, first you hear the loud crash of thunder, then the bolt of lightening appears. Now, imagine that as God. That is the glory of the Lord. The word glory means great beauty, magnificence, and splendor, the bliss and splendor of heaven. The glory of the Lord is so beautiful, so amazing, yet a little scary, but to see His glory is to know that our great and mighty God is never far and always watching over us. You no longer come short of the glory of God because you have the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ upon your soul. “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” - Hebrews 13:20,21. Praise God!

God instructed Moses to build a place for Him to dwell. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering...And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.” - Exodus 25:1,2,8,9.

Today, God does not dwell upon any building, He dwells in every person who has accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” - I Corinthians 3:16,17. Now, if you are living in sin you can be sure that God has turned His back on you. He does not want to see you sin in the body that He dwells in and you can be sure that you will be convicted until you repent.

Jesus Christ Revealed: Today Jesus is revealed through the ark, the tabernacle. “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” - Hebrews 9:11,12.

Thanks and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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