Recent Commentaries

In today’s passage, Moses asks two more questions and makes a statement: (3) What if the people reject me (again) (v. 1). Moses’s last attempt at organized resistance hadn’t gone so well (Exo. 2:11-15). This time he would have the Lord on his side, but what if they people didn’t believe that? The Lord responded to his …

After 40 years of training in the courts of Pharaoh, Moses now is near the end of another 40 years of his life as a shepherd. Leading his father-in-law Jethro’s flock, in search of grasslands, Moses approached Mount Horeb in the desert of Sinai (v. 1). One day as he was out in the desert he saw …

The wilderness of Sin was the perfect place for God to test and shape the character of His people. One month after their departure from Egypt Israel lacked sufficient food, but instead of trusting the Lord they complained (vv. 1-2).

Moses’s parents kept him hidden for three months, but eventually they could hide him no longer. They had to get creative. They placed Moses in a waterproof basket among the reeds by the bank of the Nile River (vv. 1-3). His older sister, Miriam, kept watch from a distance (v. 4) until …

Satan certainly filled King Pharaoh’s heart with a very cruel plan of destroying the children of Israel. One day he called the Hebrew midwives, whose work it was to take care of the new-born babies and their mothers (v. 15). Pharaoh instructed them to kill all the Hebrew baby boys as soon …

Exodus records Israel’s birth as a nation. During their time in Egypt, one Hebrew family of seventy persons rapidly multiplies. This small group of people develops into an infant nation numbering between two and three million who God protects, feeds and nurtures. The key figure in the book …

In today’s passage we find the teaching of discipline by our heavenly Father. There are at least three ways God could deal with us when we sin …

Moses was the mediator (go-between) of the Old Covenant in the giving of the law (Gal. 3;19-20). The mediator of the New Covenant is Jesus Christ, and He is the only mediator (I Tim. 2:50. Jesus Christ is God’s superior Priest. He ministers on the basis of a better covenant (Chap. 8), in a better …

This chapter continues to speak of Jesus, who would suffer for the sins of the whole world (v. 1). In this passage we see the personal Messiah who alone can atone for sin and yet His message is rejected. His strength is shown by humility, suffering and mercy. There was nothing beautiful or …

Isaiah’s prediction of deliverance for the people of Israel begins with a statement that shows the supremacy of the Lord over the false gods being recognized in the nations (vv. 1-2). Bel (also called Marduk) was the chief Babylonian god and Nebo was his son, the god of writing and …