Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption.

And we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish

and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey, hey, we are so glad you're joining us for a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

My name is Katie and today we're studying Exodus 31 through 33 together.

In these chapters, we meet Moses again on Mount Sinai, where he spent 40 days and 40 nights

with God, receiving instructions for building the tabernacle or God's dwelling place among

his people.

In chapter 31, God finalizes his instructions to Moses. God will fill Hebrew artisans

with his spirit so that they can craft pieces of the tabernacle.

Isn't that cool? God himself will help build his own dwelling place.

God instructs Moses to ensure the Israelites obey the Sabbath, resting every seventh day

just as God rested after creating the universe. He even says that anyone who works on the Sabbath

must be put to death. Why? It's because God created the Sabbath as a symbol of his people

yielding to his law and trusting in his provision. God wraps up his instructions and inscribes

two tablets with the Tim commandments with his very own finger. That's right.

Moses received two tablets of stone that were written on from the very finger of God.

Can you imagine seeing God's handwriting? Meanwhile, chaos is happening at down at Israel's camp.

They had not seen Moses in 40 days and become terrified that their leader would not return.

God's people begged Aaron to make them another God to worship. They needed something to believe in,

so Aaron gathered gold and created an idol in the shape of a calf. Aaron showed the calf to

the people and said, here are your gods and they worshipped. God told Moses what was happening

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