The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it

daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible book club where we read every word

of this great book and then study it together well last episode was

your brief respite from law school if you're tracking along with us and the laws in exodus and it was our golden

calf episode that terrible moment when moses comes down and finds that the Israelites have diverged from the plan and did not trust enough to know that he was up there getting all the great stuff from God.

They create an idol and they worship and they have a big party, an orgy actually.

And Aaron takes part in this whole

debacle. God then burns with anger and Moses intercedes on their behalf. Then Moses also burns

with anger and he throws the tablets, smashing them at the foot of the mountain. And the guiltiest Israelites

are then killed by the sword at the hands of the Levites, who curiously then become the priests,

but I'm still kind of sore about that one. And then the other ones, the other guilty parties are

killed by plague. So God has his day. And now we can move on. All right. The scene we are left

with after the last chapter is not pretty. It was a

huge breakup scene. The Israelites have cheated on God and he has threatened to leave them. Moses has to

mediate, but how? The tabernacle was to be the place where they atone for their sin and meet with God, but that plan

has fallen to pieces. Yeah. And let me just say one more thing in my comparison about last

episode or my recap of last episode. One Bible bendered that I had was Moses as the image or

metaphor for Jesus.

So him interceding on our behalf for God, to God, on our behalf.

And the same thing that Jesus does today intercedes on our behalf to God.

And you can really see here that Moses is burdened by what's going on.

As I know Jesus is too.

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