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Bible Readings for March 25th Exodus 36 | John 15 | Proverbs 12 | Ephesians 5 Exodus 36 is written to describe the work of constructing the tabernacle, but this passage is also rich with insights about church leadership and ministry in the context of the new covenant church of Jesus Christ. First, the text makes it clear that not only do Bezalel an…

Bible Readings for March 24th Exodus 35 | John 14 | Proverbs 11 | Ephesians 4 Throughout Exodus, we have seen Yahweh drawing clear boundaries that separate his holiness from everything that is common: to a high degree from the wider world, but also from different groups of Israelites in varying degrees. Only the priests are set apart for holy minis…

Bible Readings for March 23rd Exodus 34 | John 13 | Proverbs 10 | Ephesians 3 At the very end of Exodus 33, Moses had gone for broke. In the face of Yahweh’s threat to abandon Israel by withdrawing his own personal presence from their midst, Moses pleaded for Yahweh to go up to the Promised Land with them, and Yahweh had granted Moses’s request (Ex…

Bible Readings for March 22nd Exodus 33 | John 12 | Proverbs 9 | Ephesians 2 In Exodus 32 we saw the first part of the wrath of God against Israel’s monstrous idolatry, when they fashioned for themselves a golden calf to worship and then dared to call that golden calf Yahweh. In response, Yahweh sent the Levites through the camp to kill their fello…

Bible Readings for March 21st Exodus 32 | John 11 | Proverbs 8 | Ephesians 1 Exodus 32 includes one of the most famous—and most tragic—stories from the history of Israel, the scene where God’s people make for themselves a golden calf to worship while Moses is receiving the law from Yahweh on top of Mount Sinai. To understand the full significance o…

Bible Readings for March 20th Exodus 31 | John 10 | Proverbs 7 | Galatians 6 In Exodus 31, we find some of the clearest teaching in all the Bible about the purpose and importance of the Sabbath. In recent history, the fourth commandment to keep the Sabbath holy has been largely forgotten among Christians. A lot of this is not willful disobedience b…

Bible Readings for March 19th Exodus 30 | John 9 | Proverbs 6 | Galatians 5 Much of Exodus 30 is focused on an important aspect of tabernacle worship: the altar of incense (Ex. 30:1–10) and the recipe for the incense that would be burned on the altar (Ex. 30:34–38). After teaching the law and offering sacrifices, burning incense was the most import…

Bible Readings for March 18th Exodus 29 | John 8 | Proverbs 5 | Galatians 4 In Exodus 29, we read about three distinct processes to prepare priests to be set apart for ministry, each with a unique and important theological value. The priests were to be washed with water (Ex. 29:4), anointed with oil (Ex. 29:7), and sprinkled with the blood of a sac…

Bible Readings for March 17th Exodus 28 | John 7 | Proverbs 4 | Galatians 3 The garments described in Exodus 28 are holy garments (Ex. 28:2) for a holy priesthood, even down to the plate that they wore on their turbans with the inscription “Holy to the LORD” (Ex. 28:36). The purpose of these garments was “for glory and for beauty” (Ex. 28:2, 40)—th…

Bible Readings for March 16th Exodus 27 | John 6 | Proverbs 3 | Galatians 2 Despite the fact that normal Israelites were not allowed into the holy places, the tabernacle was nevertheless supposed to be the place where Yahweh dwelt in the midst of all his people. So in Exodus 27, Yahweh made a provision for his people to approach his tabernacle in a…

Bible Readings for March 15th Exodus 26 | John 5 | Proverbs 2 | Galatians 1 In Exodus 26, Yahweh describes the two different places in the tabernacle where his holiness would dwell most fully on earth: the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Those two places would be separated only by a veil made out of blue, purple, and scarlet fabrics, with figur…

Bible Readings for March 14th Exodus 25 | John 4 | Proverbs 1 | 2 Corinthians 13 For modern readers, the detailed instructions that Yahweh gives for the construction of the tabernacle can become a bit tedious—something like reading a complex instruction manual without any pictures. This is our problem, though, and not the text’s. If we pay careful …

Bible Readings for March 13th Exodus 24 | John 3 | Job 42 | 2 Corinthians 12 Exodus 24 is a covenant renewal worship ceremony. Because we also meet weekly on the Lord’s Day to renew the one new covenant that Jesus himself inaugurated through his life, death, resurrection, and ascension—and not to inaugurate new covenants each week—Exodus 24 is uniq…

Bible Readings for March 12th Exodus 23 | John 2 | Job 41 | 2 Corinthians 11 At its core, the law functions on the principle “Do this and live.” So when God gives the law to Israel, he promises them that they will receive either blessings or curses—blessings if they obey all that God instructs them to do in his law and curses if they fail to obey w…

Bible Readings for March 11th Exodus 22 | John 1 | Job 40 | 2 Corinthians 10 Exodus 22:31 might be the most interesting verse in the whole chapter: “You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.” It is sometimes difficult to imagine why Yahweh places such a…

Bible Readings for March 10th Exodus 21 | Luke 24 | Job 39 | 2 Corinthians 9 Our society may not have a more intellectually lazy cliché than “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” The phrase itself is clever, vividly portraying one eye put out after another in an unending, bloodthirsty, universal quest. But is unrestrained vengeance real…

Bible Readings for March 9th Exodus 20 | Luke 23 | Job 38 | 2 Corinthians 8 When a lawyer asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment, Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18, explaining that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and that the second greatest comma…

Bible Readings for March 8th Exodus 19 | Luke 22 | Job 37 | 2 Corinthians 7 Exodus 19 is a pivotal chapter in the Bible. At this point, Yahweh tells his people to stop at Mount Sinai, where he will meet with them and take them to himself as his people through covenant and by giving them his law, beginning with the Ten Commandments in the next chapt…

Bible Readings for March 7th Exodus 18 | Luke 21 | Job 36 | 2 Corinthians 6 We know almost nothing of Jethro’s faith until we come to Exodus 18, when Moses tells Jethro all that Yahweh had done to redeem Israel from Egypt (Ex. 18:8). We read that, in response to the news, Jethro rejoiced at what Yahweh had done for Israel (Ex. 18:9–10), and then he…

Bible Readings for March 6th Exodus 17 | Luke 20 | Job 35 | 2 Corinthians 5 A terrible pattern is emerging as Israel follows Yahweh through the wilderness toward Mount Sinai. It goes like this: Yahweh accomplishes some great act of redemption for his people, but whenever a crisis emerges, Israel acts as though Yahweh has never done anything other t…

Bible Readings for March 5th Exodus 16 | Luke 19 | Job 34 | 2 Corinthians 4 Obviously, providing for the basic needs of Israel in the wilderness would be no small task, yet the entire Exodus would be for nothing if God’s people did not survive long enough to enter into their inheritance. So, God provided water for his people to drink in Exodus 15, …

Bible Readings for March 4th Exodus 15 | Luke 18 | Job 33 | 2 Corinthians 3 The song of Moses in Exodus 15 provides one of the richest overall descriptions of who Yahweh is for his people that we find in the entire Bible—and as such, Exodus 15 is an instructive chapter on what our own worship should sound like. To begin, Moses sings that Yahweh is …

Bible Readings for March 3rd Exodus 14 | Luke 17 | Job 32 | 2 Corinthians 2 Although we might have thought Israel was finished forever with Egypt, neither Yahweh nor the Egyptians are done fighting over the possession of Israel. Yahweh again hardens Pharaoh’s heart (Ex. 14:4) so that Pharaoh and his servants wonder how they could have been so fooli…

Bible Readings for March 2nd Exodus 13 | Luke 16 | Job 31 | 2 Corinthians 1 It is important to recognize that Yahweh liberates Israel not to give them total freedom but so that Israel could be Yahweh’s people and so that Yahweh could be Israel’s God. In other words, Yahweh redeemed Israel. The word redeem means to purchase something back for onesel…

Bible Readings for March 1st Exodus 12 | Luke 15 | Job 30 | 1 Corinthians 16 By the time Pharaoh lets Israel go out of Egypt, his country has come to great ruin. As a result of Yahweh’s terrible plagues, fish from the Nile have died (Ex. 7:21); a legion of frogs has come, died, and stank (Ex. 8:14); the livestock has died (Ex. 9:4); all Egypt has b…