Day 22: September 26, 2025 – Exodus 39-40 and I Peter 1-5

I did not realize until we finished Exodus that the scene where the Israelites are not allowed to enter the promised land and be led by Moses into the promises land happens in another book of the Bible. I have been waiting and waiting to get to the scene where Moses strikes the rock and God tells Moses definitively that they will not enter until they wander for 40 years to come upon us. It never did because that scene is actually in Deuteronomy 32. So we finish Exodus with the expectation and the continued command by God that the people and Moses with their newly designed tabernacle, are making their way into the promised land. The story continues and one of the most dramatic parts of this story doesn’t take place until another book of the Bible. Exodus is more about the flight from Egypt than it is about the entry into the promised land.

I Peter provides us with some insight into what it was like to be a Christian in the first century after Jesus had died and the church was trying to establish itself. There is a lot of discussion about discipline which is key because when you are an outsider and an outcast you are not going to get very far if you allow things to sluff off or don’t take things very seriously. There is discussion about persecution and how God is present in all of that as well. There is discussion of how we have been chosen not through sacrifice of animals but rather through the sacrifice and the blood of Jesus. There is much to gain from this small book of the Bible.