Sidenote: The reason for such vague and short and "eh" words on each of these books, is because I wasn't challenging the study of the Bible when I read these. I was challenging myself to read the whole Bible in a year because I knew it would be discipline to keep at it daily. I do, however, plan to pick up a book and study what it is saying. Those will be longer reads and more notes.

So here is my review from my "Read the Bible in a Year" challenge. Usually just snippets of thoughts and random things I liked about the book itself. Nothing in-depth.

So here is my review on Exodus.

Exodus means to leave, basically. With that being said, this book is all about the freeing of the Jews from slavery. The Egyptians enslaved them because they were scared they were all going to kill them since they had a lot more people than them.

Oh okay.

The story of Moses happens in this book; if you don’t know this story, you can watch on of my favorite childhood movies called Prince of Egypt and you’ll get the idea of what happened.

OR YOU COULD READ THIS BOOK THAT IS AN IDEA WORTH HAVING.

Moses was the worst. He couldn’t do anything himself. I don’t understand why he was so scared of everything and had to have his brother do all the confrontational things.

Even though he couldn’t do anything on his own, God still picked him to be His mouth to his chosen people. Isn’t that amazing? What do you think God could use you for?

The Plagues are LITERALLY THE SO SCARY. Just read chapters 07-12 and you’ll see that God isn’t all rainbows and daisies. He is literally an angry God while being a peaceful God. How is that possible? Well, He’s God so…

What I find questionable is that God loves all of his creation; so, why did he continue to harden the heart of Pharaoh? He created him. Did He condemn him hell just to show people He can do really cool things (because wow yes He can)?

It makes you wonder if He ended up saving the Pharaoh or if he just is collateral damage.

ANYWAY.

Then there’s the whole golden calve thing that the Israelites really just screwed over. Like “Oh we just saw God do all these cool things and save us from slavery, but let’s worship a god we saw Aaron make with all of our jewelry.”

Cool guys.

Then again, is that showing us how easily we stray from the path? I mean we can say that they are stupid all we want, but I bet we have some similar situations that we don’t even know about. We can worship different types of things and it not be a statue of a cow.

A lot of this book is about the strictness of the rules they have to follow. How they have to make things to the inch of what God wanted with specific material or it doesn’t count.

Imagine if we had to do all the churches in the world like they talk about in Exodus.

That would be SUPER crazy.

I’m glad we have the freedom we do.

I love the story of Moses, even if Moses kind of annoys me sometimes.
And Aaron. Joshua is my rock.