01.29.2016 Old Testament: Exo 19.14–15

To read the Bible in a year, read Exodus 19–21 on January 29, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

The Lord led Israel out of Egypt and brought them to His mountain. Once there, He had Moses come up to the mountain, and the Lord explained to Moses that He would come down on the mountain in the sight of all Israel, and that they needed to prepare for it,

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives” (Exodus 19.14–15). 

They would see and hear things that no one else on Earth had experienced, and they had to prepare their hearts for it, for meeting the Lord is no insignificant matter. Likewise, when you prepare to meet the Lord in worship on the first day of the week, prepare your heart, for in the Spirit you enter into the presence of the Lord.