The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 24:4,
"Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said."
The first "book" mentioned in the Bible comes three verses after the verse quoted above, "Then he [Moses] took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people." Verse 7.
Moses is known as the great lawgiver. God met with Moses and gave him his expectations for his people that he intended to enter into covenant with - the Law of God. Moses, in turn, delivered this law to the nation of Israel and to all mankind. Not only did Moses provide God's law verbally, "... Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws..." verse 3, he also wrote it down. Having written it down, he then read what he had written down to the Israelites.
Moses wrote the first five books of our Bibles, referred to as the Pentateuch. Psalm 90 is attributed to Moses as well as the book of Job (per the Babylonian Talmud and many others). The wonderful thing to me about Moses is he was the first to begin writing the Scriptures.
Scripture-writers, prophets, were very unique people who were given a unique task from God. God desired to communicate to mankind, not only through the verbal communication the prophets provided, but also in written format. We have in our Bibles the very words of God.
Peter's observation of this process is fascinating, "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21. The production of Scripture provides us with God's very words cast in the language, regional dialect and usage of language by the various prophets God chose to use. The book of Hebrews (?) sounds nothing like the book of Romans (Paul). The gospel and letters of John sound nothing like Luke and Acts (Luke). Yet all have a common author, God himself. Moses is the man God chose to begin this process.
Over forty human authors were used to produce the Scriptures over a period fourteen-hundred plus years - and Moses stands as the man God chose to be the first as we read in Exodus 24. Through all these writings, we have been given from God the means to be taught by God, to be rebuked by God, corrected by God and trained by God for righteousness to be fully equipped for him and his use, 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Through these writings we find the strength for endurance and encouragement that leads to the great hope we have, "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." Romans 15:4.
"Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said."
The first "book" mentioned in the Bible comes three verses after the verse quoted above, "Then he [Moses] took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people." Verse 7.
Moses is known as the great lawgiver. God met with Moses and gave him his expectations for his people that he intended to enter into covenant with - the Law of God. Moses, in turn, delivered this law to the nation of Israel and to all mankind. Not only did Moses provide God's law verbally, "... Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws..." verse 3, he also wrote it down. Having written it down, he then read what he had written down to the Israelites.
Moses wrote the first five books of our Bibles, referred to as the Pentateuch. Psalm 90 is attributed to Moses as well as the book of Job (per the Babylonian Talmud and many others). The wonderful thing to me about Moses is he was the first to begin writing the Scriptures.
Scripture-writers, prophets, were very unique people who were given a unique task from God. God desired to communicate to mankind, not only through the verbal communication the prophets provided, but also in written format. We have in our Bibles the very words of God.
Peter's observation of this process is fascinating, "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21. The production of Scripture provides us with God's very words cast in the language, regional dialect and usage of language by the various prophets God chose to use. The book of Hebrews (?) sounds nothing like the book of Romans (Paul). The gospel and letters of John sound nothing like Luke and Acts (Luke). Yet all have a common author, God himself. Moses is the man God chose to begin this process.
Over forty human authors were used to produce the Scriptures over a period fourteen-hundred plus years - and Moses stands as the man God chose to be the first as we read in Exodus 24. Through all these writings, we have been given from God the means to be taught by God, to be rebuked by God, corrected by God and trained by God for righteousness to be fully equipped for him and his use, 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Through these writings we find the strength for endurance and encouragement that leads to the great hope we have, "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." Romans 15:4.
Exodus 24 contains the beginning of something that just cannot be overlooked!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know. A blog with all my posts can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
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