Category: Exodus

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 17:1-7

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 17:1-7

    Moses strikes the rock and Horeb, and water springs forth. This could be miraculous, or as has been normative for God with Israel, He could have revealed the location of a hidden spring that was covered by a rock. There is a split rock in Horeb today, and many people want to claim that it…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 16:22-36

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 16:22-36

    God kept the manna from appearing on the sabbath day. Even though they had enough, some Israelites go out to gather more on the sabbath day despite God’s instruction for them to rest. Before the Law is even given, the people refuse to keep God’s instructions. God has given the people the sabbath and provided…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 16:1-21

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 16:1-21

    Manna, a light film of secreted honeydew left when insects consumed the sap from the Rimth Shrub in the Desert of Sinai—still collected and used as an ingredient in the modern day. The Israelites did not know about the naturally occurring food. Like we see in God’s command about purifying bitter water (Genesis 15:22-27), here…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 15:22-27

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 15:22-27

    The people of Israel can’t find drinkable water. Instead of asking God to provide, they grumbled against Moses. Had they already forgotten the power and goodness of God? God provides for them by making the bitter water sweet. Different types of log will remove metallic contaminations from water, like an acacia sapwood and date palms.…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 15:1-21

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 15:1-21

    Moses and all of Israel sing a new song about what Yahweh has done. There are no gods like Yahweh, who actually acts and does wonders. All other gods are silent as if they do not exist. The fame of Yahweh goes out to the nations because of what He has done in Egypt. Yahweh…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 14:13-31

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 14:13-31

    Israel, who displayed such unbelief before crossing the sea, believed in God and Moses after they were delivered from Egypt. I think this is true for nearly everyone, even people who are religious prior to actually being delivered from their sin. Human nature is such that we don’t believe until after we are delivered. I…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 14:1-12

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 14:1-12

    The Egyptians regret letting Israel leave. Their labor force was gone and they faced a possible period of economic recession. Pharaoh mounts his chariots-six hundred select military chariots and all his transport chariots-in order to retrieve his slaves. The people of Israel worry they will die in the wilderness as they see Egypt overtaking them.…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 13:17-22

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 13:17-22

    God leads Israel a certain way because He does not want them to encounter war and get scared. Yet, Israel marches in battle array. Such is prideful human nature, by which we always believe we are ready for more than we are. Further, in our flesh we are always ready for a fight even if…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 13:1-16

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 13:1-16

    God not only institutes the annual observance of Passover as a reminder of His work in Egypt but also commands Israel to sacrifice the firstborn from every womb as a reminder to Israel throughout her generations that Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt. It was a serious matter and it is not…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 12:42-51

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 12:42-51

    God instructs Israel to observe the Passover. Non-Israelites are to abstain from observing Passover unless they become circumcised (i.e. legal citizens of Israel). Why? God has set national Israel apart as His own national people. There is a certain inherent danger in Judiazing or Hebrew Roots movements which cause Gentiles to break some laws by…