Having fled Berea by sea to escape the mob from Thessalonica, Paul now waits in Athens for his companions to join him by land, and “…his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols” (Acts 17:16 NKJV). Reaching out first to those in the synagogue, Paul attracts the attention of pagan philosophers, “And they took…
In Exodus 34, Moses again ascends Mt. Sinai with new tablets of stone, and God Himself writes on them “the words that were on the first tablets which you broke” (Exodus 34:1). God then renews the covenant with the Jewish people, proclaiming, “I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth… For it is an awesome thing that I will do with…
In today’s passage, we overhear another conversation between God and Moses as Moses intercedes on behalf of the people after their idolatrous worship of the Golden Calf. What does it mean when Moses pleads with God, “Yet now, if You will forgive their sin — but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written” (Exodus 32:32)? …
In today’s study, we witness God’s wrath as He tells Moses, still atop Mt. Sinai, of His intent to wipe out the idolatrous Israelites in the camp below who are now worshipping a golden calf of their own making. Pastor Kevin explains how this conversation between God and Moses, in which God appears to “relent” of this intent, is not an example of…