Why Moses Couldn’t Enter the Tabernacle – Exodus E10

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In the second movement of Exodus, Moses walks straight into God’s fiery presence on Mount Sinai without fear. But by the end of the scroll, he can’t enter God’s presence. What changed? Right after confirming their covenant with Yahweh, Israel turns around and commits idolatry by making and worshiping a golden calf. It’s a choice that ruptures their relationship with Yahweh and even their connection to Moses. In this episode, join Jon and Tim as they explore the final portion of the third movement of Exodus.

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0:00.0	In the scroll of Exodus, Israel is led by Moses.
0:10.4	It's Moses who acts as God on behalf of Israel to confront Pharaoh.
0:16.5	It's Moses' raised staff that's put narrative parallel as God's raised arm that brings
0:22.1	them through the waters and defeats their enemies.
0:24.7	It's Moses who can ascend the sacred mountain and sit with God in the cosmic temple and receive
0:29.8	the covenant and the tabernacle blueprints.
0:32.6	And so it's surprising that at the end of the scroll of Exodus, after the tabernacle
0:39.0	is built, for some reason Moses can't go in.
0:44.8	Why?
0:45.8	What happened?
0:47.8	The answer to that question is what we look at today.
0:50.9	It's right at the heart of the third movement of Exodus, the story of Israel making a golden
0:56.6	calf.
0:57.6	Golden calf did something that ruptured the relationship between God and His people,
1:03.4	such that even Moses who could and did ascend into the glory cloud, now that the glory cloud
1:09.7	dwells in the middle of these people, there's unresolved problems.
1:14.0	Israel gets scared.
1:15.2	They get impatient while Moses is on the mountain and they take gold, the gold that Egypt gave
1:20.0	them when they left, and they use it to break the first two commandments.
1:24.4	Don't worship any other gods and don't make idle images.
1:27.6	They're taking the plunder of Egypt that was the sign of Yahweh's defeat of the gods
1:31.8	of Egypt and now they're going to recast it into a new God.
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