Exodus 33:12-16 “Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ Now therefore,...

John 8:23-24 “And He was saying to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.’” (Emphasis added.)...

Psalm 55:5-7 “Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. I said, ‘Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away AND BE AT REST. Behold, I would wander far away, I would lodge IN THE WILDERNESS.’” (Emphasis added.) Scripture makes no effort to...

Genesis 28:10-17 “Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran. He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place. He had a dream,...

Exodus 32:7-10 “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down at once, for your people (those who occupy your side of the Infinite Chasm of Transcendence), whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have (once again) corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from...

In this segment let’s ponder a profoundly mysterious reality that sooner or later, we will all have to face and deal with. The depth of it makes it hard to put into words. I’m referring to the ‘Infinite Chasm of Transcendence’ we discussed in previous segments. We use...

Exodus 20:18-21 “All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. Then they said to Moses, ‘Speak to us yourself and we will listen;...

In our last segment we quoted Exodus 24:3-13. It related what took place at Sinai when God’s Word joined Himself to Israel in their bi-lateral Covenant. To understand more of what is contained in that text, let’s go through it again, in sections, and I will add...

Exodus 24:3-13 “Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, ‘All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!’ Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he...

Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”  Allow me to paraphrase the text above, in hopes of helping...

Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”  There are several basic Torah revelations and issues...

Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”  Our indwelling Lord is here to abide within His New Covenant disciples…to live, work and manifest His Resurrection Presence from within them. So what is the risen Lord here to do as He works from...

Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”  We’ve seen that the true, ultimate intent of the Ten Commandments is to make us aware of our true state in God’s eyes so we can realize our desperate need for God to redeem and be to us what we...

Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”  Throughout all of Scripture, God is revealing His living Word. Everything God does or says comes to us through His Word. And the Word became flesh to reveal His Father in terms we could...

Exodus 20:15 “You shall not steal.”  The Tanach tells us that the Covenant relationship God established with His chosen people at Sinai failed from the start. Despite God’s awesome forbearance, patience and mercy, Israel continued to revert to her idolatrous, Sin-full...