Will We Trust God’s Wisdom or Our Own?
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What is the significance of the literary structure in Exodus 19-24?
Hello, welcome to the Hyperlink episode for the Ten Commandments. As we wrap up a series, we like to go digging back through our podcast archives and find clips where we discussed similar ideas from different perspectives. In the Ten Commandments series, we looked at the theme of trusting in God's wisdom, which leads to life, instead of building a life on our own terms, which usually leads to a lot of pain. Today, we're going to listen to three clips that explore that theme. We'll first look at how the literary structure of the stories around the Ten Commandments highlights humanity's severe reluctance to wait on God's commands. In the second clip, we'll look at the golden calf story and how it relates to the Ten Commandments.
Lastly, we'll grab a clip from our Paradigm series in which we talk about how all of the Bible— The laws, the poems, the letters are wisdom for us. That's today on the show. I'm your host, Michelle Jones. Thanks for joining us.
How does humanity's reluctance to wait on God's commands manifest in the Bible?
Here we go.
Let's start with a clip from the Exodus Scroll podcast series. In that series, we spend 12 episodes working through the literary structure of Exodus. Israel is rescued from Egypt on the night of Passover. They travel through the wilderness for three months, and then they end up at the foot of Mount Sinai. This clip is what happens when they arrive at Sinai. Israel is given the 10 words, that is, the 10 commandments, and then given 42 more commands. In this conversation, Tim takes us through the literary structure of Exodus 19 through 24, how it's set up as a chiasm, or what John will end up visualizing as a double cheeseburger. This clip comes from our episode titled, Testing at Mount Sinai. Here's John and Tim.
So this is Exodus 19 through 24. It begins with the words, and in the third month after the sons of Israel left Egypt. So it's been three months in the third month. So they've been traveling through the wilderness since the night of Passover, which was the first month. The liberation from Egypt and Passover. Marks a new year. Marked. Yeah. It's as if the calendar got restarted with Passover. Yeah.
What lessons can we learn from the golden calf story in Exodus 32?
It's a recreation. Even time gets recreated for Israel. So we're now three months in and they arrive at the foot of a mountain, Mount Sinai, which is the very mountain Moses met God at the burning bush, you know, many years, many years ago. So that's how the section starts. And the exciting, jam-packed action story that began, you know, with Exodus just grinds to a halt right here. We're going to stay parked at this mountain for the rest of Exodus, all of Leviticus, and the first 10 chapters of Numbers. And all of that material is going to transpire in what takes up one calendar year. So it's the center of the Torah that spans three scrolls, and it's just dedicated to one year. So I think the book of Genesis kicks off in the first 11 chapters by sequencing forward like hundreds and thousands of years.
In 11 chapters.
Yeah.
And now we're going to spend a lot of material on. It's an important year. That's right. Yeah. So that's how this section begins.
How do the Ten Commandments relate to modern-day challenges?
In 19 to 24, here's how the section works. There's a story where God shows up on Mount Sinai and invites the people to make a covenant. And he invites Israel to become his kingdom of priests. And the people say, yes, sign us up. We want to do it. God comes down in cloud and fire. That's chapter 19. God starts speaking. And here the narrative stops, and it's a long speech of God. And lo and behold, we have the Ten Commandments. The Ten Words. The Ten Words. They're the terms of the covenant relationship between God and Israel. So they're not just random moral commands dropped out of the sky. They're covenant terms for the Israelites.
But they're the first of what's going to be many.
What insights do the clips from the BibleProject series provide?
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 613. In this section, there's going to be 42 more after this. So you get the 10 words that summarize kind of the essence, as it were, of the covenant, starting with don't make any idols. Then in a short paragraph at the center of this whole section, you get a what? four verse paragraph, chapter 20, verse 18 to 21.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of the literary structure in Exodus 19-24?
0:05–1:08
2
How does humanity's reluctance to wait on God's commands manifest in the Bible?
1:08–2:38
3
What lessons can we learn from the golden calf story in Exodus 32?
2:38–3:41
4
How do the Ten Commandments relate to modern-day challenges?
3:41–4:20
5
What insights do the clips from the BibleProject series provide?
4:20–5:24
6
How are the Bible's narratives and laws considered wisdom literature?
5:24–5:47
7
What is the role of wisdom in interpreting the Bible's teachings?
5:47–6:15
8
How can we apply the lessons from this episode to our lives today?
6:15–46:49