SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/15/2015
11:41 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Israel’s
Exodus from Egypt
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
20:9-10
Message of the
verses: “9 "But I acted for the sake of My name,
that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they
lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the
land of Egypt. 10 "So I took them
out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.”
In the other SD that I did this morning on the book of
Revelation I mentioned some things that happened in chapter 33 of the book of
Exodus and I noted that what happened in chapter 33 certainly related to the
things that happened earlier when Moses was on the mountain receiving the Ten
Commandments as the children of Israel grew impatient and had Aaron make a
golden cow for them to worship. When
Moses came down many people would lose their lives, so God had every right to
destroy Israel, but as we have noticed in many passages it is all about the
name of the Lord. Moses even reminded
God of this when God told him that He was going to destroy them and make a
nation from him.
Dr. Wiersbe writes:
“God often worked on Israel’s behalf, not because they deserved it, but
for the glory of His own name (vv. 14, 22, 44; see Isa. 48:9; 66:5), just as He
has saved His church today ‘to the praise of His glory’ (Eph. 1:6, 12,
14). The account of the Exodus did go
before the Jews as they marched toward the Promised Land (Josh. 2:10), and it
did bring glory to God’s name.”
"For
we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when
you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who
were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed (Josh.
2:10).” This was Rahab the harlot
speaking this to the two spies that were staying with her and it does show that
the Lord received glory because many nations heard about what happened to Egypt
when God destroyed not only the nation, but the idols they worshiped. We still know about this even today.
1/15/2015 11:59 AM
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