Category: January
January 31 – Yahweh (Jehovah) is a Jealous GOD
Reading Ex. 32:1-34:16, 27-35 Devotional As Moses was on Mt. Sinai listening to GOD the children of Israel grew impatient. They asked Aaron to make an idol for them to bow down to, which Aaron did, creating a calf of gold. The people then said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out…
January 30 – Animal Sacrifices
Reading Ex. 29:1-31:11, 18 Devotional As part of the covenant with Israel, GOD told Moses to have the priests offer numerous animals as sacrifices unto Him. In order for the children of Israel to have a covenant relationship with GOD they had to continuously kill animals and offer them as sacrifices before GOD. This was…
January 28 – When GOD Shows Himself
Reading Ex. 19:1-20:26; 23:20-33; 24:1-18 Devotional These chapters are among my favorite in the whole Bible, and as such it is impossible for me to choose a single lesson from the text. So let’s consider two. GOD Offers a Relationship Most Bible students are very familiar with the Ten Commandments which are found in Exodus…
January 27 – How Quickly We Forget
Reading Ex. 15:22-18:27 Devotional Forty-five days after the children of Israel left Egypt they came to the Wilderness of Sin. The people began to complain to Moses because they were hungry. They even accused Moses of bringing them into the wilderness just so they could die there! What a terrible attitude to have. It hadn’t…
January 26 – GOD’s Deliverance; Man’s Response
Reading Ex. 13:17-15:21 Devotional On the night that GOD killed the firstborn of the Egyptians, Pharaoh immediately sent the children of Israel out of the land, just as GOD told Moses it would happen. But GOD had one more miracle to show Pharaoh. Shortly after the Hebrews began their journey out of Egypt, Pharaoh’s heart…
January 25 – The Importance of Memorials
Reading Ex. 12:1-13:16 Devotional GOD told Moses that He would bring one final plague upon Egypt and then Pharaoh would drive the children of Israel out of the land. GOD was going to kill the firstborn of every Egyptian. GOD gave Moses specific instructions for what the Hebrews must do to avoid this plague coming…
January 24 – For This Purpose
Reading Ex. 9:1-11:10 Devotional Thus far, GOD had sent six plagues upon the Egyptians and each time Pharaoh had asked Moses to stop the plague and he would allow the children of Israel to leave. Six times Pharaoh then hardened his heart and changed his mind. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in…
January 23 – The Danger of Pride
Reading Ex. 5:1-8:32 Devotional GOD sent Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh with the message to let the Hebrews go three days’ journey in the wilderness to sacrifice to Him. GOD knew that Pharaoh would refuse, and He began unleashing His plagues upon the Egyptians one after another until Pharaoh changed his mind. Generations earlier, when…
January 22 – So GOD Heard
Reading Ex. 1:1-4:31 Ex. 6:14-27 Devotional After Joseph died a new king came to power in Egypt who had not known Joseph. The Hebrews prospered and they multiplied and grew mighty in the land. The new Pharaoh feared that the Hebrews were becoming more powerful than the Egyptians, so he decided to make slaves of…