The Early Hebrews’ Sin Addiction
Exodus Chapters 3240
God has done so much for the Hebrews in so many miraculous ways, but just like people in today’s world, the Hebrews turned away from God because they couldn’t get past their addiction to sin.
God has worked all of these power miracles and just as soon as they thought God wasn’t watching, they were gonna make some golden idols.
This makes a major turning point with the relationship between
God and man.
In Genesis 3, we see where the Fall marked a turning point and now we see when people are firmly confronted with the goodness of God, they still seek sin.
The rest of the Old Testament will be shadowed by the sin the Hebrews did when they built the golden bull.
The rest of Exodus is about the construction of the Tabernacle, the priestly robes and the consecration of the Tabernacle.
Many people assume that in the Book of Exodus we find out that the people wandered for 40 years in the desert. But in truth, Exodus only covers about a oneyear time frame. It’s not until we get to the
Book of Numbers that we get the rest of the story. But the Book of Exodus ends with a continuation of the covenant that God made with Abraham and later with Moses. God said God will always be their God and they will always be God’s people. Even when they do bad, God’s love is still with them. In Exodus 40: 34- 38 we read, “34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on each stage of their journey; 37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up.
38 For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud[ f] by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.”