Tuesday 5-Feb-19 Exodus 33-34; Psalm 16; Matthew 27

Exodus 33: Who was Moses’ assistant?What did Moses ask God to do?

Exodus 34: What did God tell Moses to tell the people not to do?

Matthew 27: What happened to Judas and why? What message did Pilate’s wife send to her husband? What happened at the sixth hour? What happened when Jesus gave up His spirit?

Journal Prompt: Why do you think the celebration of the feasts (Exodus 34) so important to God?

Answers:

Exodus 33:  Moses’ assistant was Joshua – he never left Moses’ side.  Moses asked the Lord to go with him and the people because the Lord had said he would not accompany them because they were a ‘stiff-necked people’.  He also asked the Lord to show him His ways.

Exodus 34: God covenanted to do great acts and to drive out the enemies from the lands they were given.  The Israelites were not to: not make a covenant with the inhabitatnts of hte land, You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Observe the Sabbath., the feast of Weeks and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. Three times in the year all males appear before the Lord God.

ot offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

 Matthew 27: Judas hanged himself after betraying Jesus: “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” Pilate’s wife told him not to touch Jesus because she had had a dream. At the sixth hour (around noon) there was darkness all over hte land for three hours.  When Jesus gave up His spirit, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised