Day 50: God’s Resolving Alienation and Offering Guardrails

Today we read Exodus 35-36, Leviticus 25, and Psalm 82. In this part of the story, Exodus 35 to 40 is about God resolving alienation. The people are all participating, fulfilling, and implementing the plan, not innovating or picking their own adventure. There is a redeeming sort of action going on with redirection of creative energy from golden calf to creating the Tabernacle. Where the people broke the commands in the last story and broke the command in the Garden of Eden which led to the breaking of our dwelling with God, here in Exodus, we are reading yet again, how God is making a way for us to restore our relationship. What a gracious God, it’s truly unbelievable.

Resources:

Dr. Carmen Imes, Exodus Class - Exodus 1-40, (14 hours) Bible Project. https://bibleproject.com/classroom/overview/exodus-overview/ 

Dr. Scott Rae (2014). Thoughts on the Old Testament and Economics. Biola, the Good Book Blog. https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2014/thoughts-on-the-old-testament-and-economics 

Dr. Sandra Richter and Dr. Scott Rae (August, 2020). Sexual Violence Against Women and the OT Law, Think Biblically Podcast, Biola. https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2020/sexual-violence-against-women 

Credits:

Podcast music by Stockaudios from Pixabay. Speaker, Dr. Rachel Bodell. Podcast Sound Engineer, Alan Darling. Podcast Artwork, Will Gerard.