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Read the Bible: Exodus 32

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Even while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Law, 40 days was all it took for the people to demand that Aaron make gods for them to worship. The worship the golden calf, sacrificed to it, then may have gotten drunk and naked. There was definitely dancing. In this chapter Moses demonstrates why he is a type of Christ, as he stands between sinful people deserving judgment and a holy but angry God ready to judge them.

Exodus 32

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together before Aaron, and said to him “Get up, make us gods which shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 

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Bible Study: Hebrews 3

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Read Hebrews 3.

Moses is perhaps the most significant type of of Christ in the Old Testament. There are many examples of types of Christ given, such as the high priest, the sacrificial lamb, the branch that was thrown in the bitter water at Mara. Moses had a great many things in common with Christ; he led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt, gave them God’s Law, and led them through the wilderness to the Promised Land. Some teachers go as far as to point out that Moses was taken out of the water by Pharaoh’s daughter and Jesus was taken up from the waters of baptism by John the Baptist. That might be a stretch… but those things did happen. Jesus frees the Christian believer from slavery to sin, teaches us God’s Law (kept it perfectly so we don’t have to actually), and leads us through this present wilderness we are in toward the promised land of God’s Kingdom.

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