Exodus 24-25

Don't you love how Moses waited for 6 days one the mountain for God to speak? And then, the first thing he says is, check out 25:1, "...take an offering for Me." We must never lose our sensitivity to money being controversial, not because it has a Biblical sensitivity but because of abuses by spiritual leaders throughout history, today, and most certainly throughout unwritten history. But if we are not careful, we will let the abuses of others displace the primacy of the message of stewardship that every person seeking the depth of eternal life needs to hear hear.

I find it intriguing that while Moses was on the mountain, concurrently in chapter 32, Satan is tempting the people to squander the very resources that were supposed to be used to build the temple. Never forget too that all those riches were given to the people by the Egyptians through God orchestrating favorable circumstances for His new nation. The Israelites, 430 years in the making, a nation that needed a treasury...they enriched the Egyptians and now all that wealth was where it rightfully belonged, in the hands of the Israelites (Exodus 12:35-36). And in Exodus 32, Satan is trying to deceive them into its waste!

Pastor Fred