The test must have brought inevitable ruin. This is true, no doubt; but unless it goes farther than this, it is a declarative sanction of God's punishing in case of failure to meet His demands. The next day, the fiftieth day would begin the Passover, which was the first fruits of the winter, wheat harvest, as they began to harvest it there in Israel in the first part of June. His greatness and goodness illustrate and set off each other. WebExodus 34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. _v._2) _with him there, and_ The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . The former in its scriptural usage is not merely, I apprehend, that we are born of God, but goes beyond new birth. But inasmuch as Christ differed from Moses, as grace differs from law; as that which suits God the Father known in heaven, though manifesting Himself upon earth, differs from a process of mere dealing with the first man according to righteous claim; so it is with the Christian man: while faithful to Christ, as he knows Him, he will never do anything which the law could possibly condemn. The Divine name was proclaimed absolutely. Afterwards He proclaims the greatness of His mercy and truth, and on these two supports the confidence of the pious is based, whilst they embrace the mercy offered to them, and securely repose on the faithfulness and certainty of the promises. But the same Moses returns to Jehovah with the confession "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. There the names were all found together on his heart. Longsuffering, not good by spasm or effort, but patient and unwearied. How I thank God for it more and more, especially as I see people who-my heart goes out to them, they've never had a chance to know what a real loving home is all about, a real godly home is all about. of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Oh how glorious it is that we can come to Jesus Christ and receive that beautiful work of His Holy Spirit and He can absolutely cleanse, and clear. It is the peculiar property and glory of the word of God that it communicates not merely a truth here and there, but the truth; and this in the person of Christ. God's promises are intended, not to supersede, but to direct and encourage, prayer. Next (versesExodus 26:15-30; Exodus 26:15-30) follows the account of the acacia boards with their tenons and bolts, the sockets of silver and the rings of gold. We must remember that they are but shadows, and not the very image of the thing. The biblical Exodus is central in Judaism. Moses, painfully aware of the Israelites weakness, appealed to the grace of God, asking that he would still dwell among them and own them as his people in spite of their stubbornness (34:1-9).God then renewed his covenant, promising Israel provision and protection. It is in vain to argue that the fruit of the teaching of Peter or of James had the same power with it as the fruit of Paul not very long after, or of John latest of all. His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1979 in Richmond, California. W. Burn. He prized you so highly that He sent His Son to die for your sins so that He could have you for His own. How God proclaimed his name (Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7): he did it in transitu--as he passed by him. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. First, God was dealing with Israel in their responsibility as witnesses of Jehovah, the one true self-existing God, the almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As divine life alone can have affections according to God, so a divine object alone can either act on those affections or minister to them. So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. Thousands have found mercy; but there are stores for thousands yet.(2.) (379) See C.s own translation. So Christ entered by His own blood entered in once for all into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption that we might have a common place with Him by blood and in the Spirit's power. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. The nature also of His goodness and clemency is specified, viz., that He is not only placable, and ready, and disposed, to pardon, but that He patiently waits for those who have sinned, and invites them to repentance by His long-suffering. were in the first tables, which you broke. In fact we could not have the full image till Christ appeared and died on the cross and went to heaven. CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the The reference is to the fine linen and blue, etc., with the various coverings of goats' hair and badger skins. For they who despised Moses' law were put to death in the mouth of two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he could be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and who hath counted the blood of His covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace? What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? The grace of God applies the blood of Christ in a totally different way; and this is what is referred to in1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:2. lest I consume thee in the way." It has ever been the pious mind which has through the eyes beheld the chain of revelation and the long series of Divine manifestations gradually unwind themselves. Thus he shows his hatred to sin, and displeasure against it; yet he keepeth not his anger for ever, but visits to the third and fourth generation only, while he keepeth his mercy for thousands. Thus 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 corresponds with the ark rather than the brazen altar. One inscription was in the shoulder-pieces. He could not look upon the face of God; but when the Lord had passed by then he could behold and delight in the shaded vision of Jehovahs back parts. THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. He not only does good, but by his promise he raises our expectation of it, and even binds himself to show mercy. Private and Safe When He says they were washed, He is referring to the water of the word used by the Spirit of God to deal with man. For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God"( Hebrews 10:27-29 , Hebrews 10:31 ). Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." He besought the Lord again to re-establish His covenant acknowledging the sinfulness of the Israelites with whom he humbly identified. As long as this was the case only, man could not come to God. came into the camp. He had made himself known to Moses in the glory of his self-existence and self-sufficiency when he proclaimed that name, I am that I am; now he makes himself known in the glory of his grace, and goodness, and all-sufficiency to us. But God, who showed how He would continually remember those He loved, and who could not have a high priest without having their names in honour and love before Him that blessed God has given us much more. Revelation of Gods Grace. Hence, as duty is ever measured by responsibility, that of the Christian is according to the place in which grace has put him. It is not merely as having the word that reveals heaven; but we know it from Him who comes from heaven and is above all, and testifies what He has seen and heard; we know it through the Holy Ghost who has come down from it, and hence should know it better than the earth, and the things of the world which ensnare the flesh. when from Thy pavilionThou lookest forth at morning; flying wideThose curtain-clouds of purple and vermilion.Dispensing life and light on every side., Divine Glory! In this opinion there is no absurdity; let us be at liberty, then, to take it as applying either to Moses or to God Himself, i.e., either that God Himself proclaimed in a loud voice His power, and righteousness, and goodness, or that Moses himself professed his piety before God. By the physical law of heredity. And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Abisamach, of the tribe of Dan. They could not exist. It was necessary, therefore, that the people should know something definite about the Being to whom they were thus intimately related and whom they professed to serve. Well, this is God's name for ever, and this is his memorial unto all generations. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. The descent of God, which is here recorded, indicates no change of place, as if God, who fills heaven and earth, and whose immensity is universally diffused, altered His position, but it has reference to the perceptions of men, because under the appearance of the cloud God testified that He met Moses. And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. The attributes of God mentioned in this passage are usually cited as follows: (6) forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin (a summary of all wickedness). You shall speak all that I command you. the Lord, ch. WebExodus 34:1-4 The second promulgation of the moral law, by the renewal of the two tables may teach us I. Intimacy with what is unseen and heavenly is quite as much the portion of a Christian and even more characteristically so than the knowledge of what passes around us now. All the previous It is true He was born King of the Jews, and He never can cease to be really so; but it is not so that we know Him. There isn't a God of the Old Testament, and a different God of the New. In divine things there is nothing like simplicity; by it we enjoy a wisdom far higher than our own and real power to strengthen and guide the heart. And the Lord passed by [Now the Jehovah Witnesses think the name is Jehovah but other evidence seems to point to Yahweh, "The Lord passed by".] 5. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. So they are going to destroy themselves. of your cattle, ox, sheep, all of the first born male. THAT ALL COVENANT WITH GOD MUST REST ON THE BASIS OF THE MORAL LAW. Without life it is impossible for one to produce that which is according to God; and without a worthy object, nay without a divine object presented, there can be nothing to draw out divine affections. WebExodus 34:1 :: Darby Translation (DBY) Exodus 34:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken. Every Christian has a nature that is intrinsically divine, as we are told in 2 Peter 1:1-21. The Holy Ghost is the only power for rightly using, and applying, and enjoying the truth; and therefore He is called "the truth" no less than the Lord Jesus. He is the intrinsic power by which the truth is received into the heart, but Christ is the object. For the presence of God with his people Israel in the wilderness: "I pray thee, go among us, for thy presence is all in all to our safety and success." They lost sight of His promises to the fathers. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. It awaited the coming of a greater than Moses. Now that God is about to publish a second edition of the law he prefaces it with this proclamation; for it is God's grace or goodness that gives the law, especially the remedial law. The reason is that He would impress on His people that all His dealings, varied as they may be, are intended to keep before their minds that rest to which He was steadily working, and into which He means to bring His own in due time. But the difficulty is this, that man being a sinner is as far as possible from ability to meet God's law; for how indeed can there be any real stable bond between a bad man and a good law? usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a See on Exodus 33:19. Under this falls the Christian testimony now, as the result of the entrance of Christ into heavenly places; and under this will fall the future fruit-bearing portion and testimony of Israel in the day when Christ will appear in glory from the heavens. Unless Jesus Christ comes into their life, unless there comes that change through the power of the gospel, they follow the role model and it goes down from generation to generation to generation. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah. Exodus 34:6. Exodus 34:1. It may be ever so minute, but there is habitually a dealing of Christ between the touch that stays the issue and the word which declares with no less authority than love, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was The Divine justice is Inflexible. Thus solemnly did Jehovah mark His dwelling-place in the midst of His people redeemed from Egypt; and He deigned to guide their journeys through the desert also by the same sign; for when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; and if not taken up, they abode till it was. It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. "Exodus" is a Latin word derived from Greek Exodos, the name given to the book by those who translated it into Greek. The seventh year was to be enjoyed as the land's Sabbath, even as the seventh day by each Israelite, who must avoid naming false gods, but keep the due feasts thrice a year to the true God, not offering blood with leavened bread, nor letting the fat remain till the morning A prohibition occurs of a peculiar kind, and is repeated not only in a later part of this book, but also in Deuteronomy: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk." I. Against the fruits of the Spirit there is no law, as the apostle so emphatically says to the Galatians. We see this demonstrated all the time. He will mingle so much of the penal in his dealings as to evince that his clemency is not to be presumed upon.. You cannot do that to a child without marking the child, without damaging the child psychologically, putting psychic scars upon that child's mind that's gonna be with him the rest of his life.Thank God for the power of the blood of Jesus Christ; it's the only thing that I know that can straighten up the mess that people's minds are in because of some of the stupid things their parents did. We have reason gratefully to acknowledge God's goodness to us, not only in the real instances of it, but in the declarations he has made of it by his word; not only that he is, and will be, gracious to us, but that he is pleased to let us know it. (4.) (2.) He is crucified with Christ and nevertheless he lives, yet not himself but Christ in him. Exodus 34:5-7. That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly. prayer. Gods glory is His goodness. 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