But looking onward to the day of glory that is coming, when the Lord will be publicly manifested, and we manifested with Him, changed into His glorious likeness, it might have been thought that surely His service will cease then. 9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. You bet your life you would. He considers that distinct meanings to be attached to the materials, colours, etc., can have no solid foundation, and are " here out of place"! Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. He will not undertake to unfold His Father's words to men in the millennium. He would obey like Jesus, not under compulsion like a Jew, and is sprinkled with His blood in remission for his sins, instead of having the blood sprinkled on him as a menace of death in case of disobeying the law. (377) So the V. Stetit Moyses eum eo, invocans nomen Domini.. This is the peculiarity. The Divine justice is Inflexible. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation." But the fact that the shine was fading away from his face, was indicating the fact that the law that God was given was to fade away when God established the new covenant with man through Jesus Christ. He immediately grounded a prayer upon it (Exodus 34:9; Exodus 34:9); and a more earnest affectionate prayer it is, (1.) Hence, therefore, appears the extent of His goodness, since He blots out an infinite mass of iniquities. must be followed: the subject of the verbs is Moses (see Exo Moses is commanded to hew two tables of stone, similar to those which 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. This was the first full revelation, the last is like unto it. God is love, and they are enough for faith and hope and work Notice, 1. Is it not true that there is scarce anything in which we feel more the need of gracious care than in the holy things of God? We should remember that we are heavenly now (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) as truly as we ever shall be. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. Christianity teaches its value instead of neutralising it. (1) God is good, therefore repent and come to Him; but(2) just, and therefore cannot connive at sin.J. More manifestly we shall be heavenly at the coming of Christ, but not more really than at present. [It was a part of the practice for the land to increase fertility they thought.] We cannot expect the benefit of God's Revelation of Gods Grace. He will "by no means clear the guilty"; and despite some efforts to distort the meaning of that promise by reading it, "He will not even completely destroy the guilty," no such rendition is honest. Children become the innocent victims because their parents aren't able to soften their hearts before God and each other enough to make the marriage work. came into the camp. The Son of the Father, He brings us into the knowledge of the true God as the Son knew Him in heaven, as the Son still of course knew Him on earth. The goats' hair would seem to speak of Christ in His prophetic separateness; the rams' skins dyed red point to His absolute consecration to God; as the power which kept out all evil would appear to be meant by the badgers' or tachach skins, which covered the tent above. Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. 7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,b. They see actually two Gods, the God of the Old Testament, the God of the New.But in the Old Testament you will find very much concerning the character of God as far as His graciousness, as far as His mercy. 24/7 Support We wont leave you out to dry. But Moses took his stand in the gate and said, "Who is on Jehovah's side? But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all. That will by no means clear the guilty. This inspires us with the confidence that right is the order of the universe. GODS INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES 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. In addition, He is the eternal Creator, Healer, Savior, Judge, and the very pinnacle of wisdom, understanding, and The veil is rent; and we walk in the light as He is in the light. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.. prophets returned to these words again and again. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. (5.) 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The LORD, the So the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and in all the people among whom thou [shalt, among whom thou] art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome [The word terrible is an old English word, should be translated "awesome"] thing that I will do with thee. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Connected with the subjoined revelation of His goodness, this teaches. THE COVENANT WORDS. Long-suffering; as also in Numbers 14:18, and Psalms 86:15. 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory Thou wilt spare, and bear with them, for thou art God, and not man," Hosea 11:9. _ 1. The sanctification here in question then applies from the start of an effectual inward work even before a soul knows pardon and peace, but there is also room for the practical power of the Holy Ghost in subsequent work in heart and conscience severing us more and more by the truth to the Lord. I grant you that, looking at the Pentecostal saints, in them we see the most powerful united testimony that ever was borne in this world; but it was borne in what was comparatively not the severest trial in earthly things chiefly, the superiority of those who had been newly created in Christ to the wretched selfishness of human nature. Ready to exchange Bitcoin for another asset? Men look at their fallen brothers through their sin; but God looks at man through the idealised [sic] life, with a love that imputes to him every virtue for Christs sake." He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. They stood in their own strength to obey the law of God, as ignorant of their impotence or of His holy majesty. We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. Christ is essentially apart from sin and sinners; we by grace are set apart. At the opening of this book, wh Exodus 34:5 LORD H3068 descended H3381 (H8799) cloud H6051 stood H3320 STOOD WITH HIM THE Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. And there the solemn compact into which Israel had passed is renewed. on high), that they also might be sanctified by the truth." This vital separation to God, and not practical holiness, is what is here called sanctification of the Spirit the most fundamental meaning of it indeed anywhere. A few words will suffice here before passing on. 1. (H8691) proclaimed H7121 (H8799) name Exodus 34:5 , EXODUS 34:29 WebIn this chapter Moses has orders to hew two tables of stone, that God might write on them the ten commands, and bring them up with him to the mount, Ex 34:1-4 where the Lord He takes and pitches the tabernacle, it is said, "without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation." (2.) It has saving joy for countless yet. 448-49. You know, a nation who was really committed unto God. That is the bearing of it all. Because what he is doing is psychologically destroying that daughter of his.There are so many of the young girls who come in with tremendous problems of adjusting to life because of the stupidity of their dads. For, (1.) We have the position of sons, a relationship which the Lord Jesus had in all its perfection, and in an infinitely higher sense, in which no creature can share it along with Him. CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses He felt that such evil must at all cost be rooted out, and banished from amongst them. It was from evening to morning" and of course uninterruptedly for that time. Was there not comfort for any heart which confides in God, that He should take such a seat as this, and give it such a name, in relationship with a guilty people on the earth? It is a great mistake to suppose that the proclamation of divine goodness in this scene is the gospel. God now was performing what he had promised Moses, the day before, that his glory should pass by, Exodus 33:22; Exodus 33:22. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? He gave a sample of it before He went up on high. We have a nature which answers morally to God whom we imitate as well as obey in light and love, in holy and righteous ways, in mercy, truthfulness, and humility. WebExodus 34:1-4 The second promulgation of the moral law, by the renewal of the two tables may teach us I. The Lord told him that no man could see His face and live. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Hence we find, for instance, the righteousness of God in Romans. This does not take them out of their condition of flesh and blood and all that pertains to it. "Thou shalt make thee no molten images.". 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. "Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thine." And I love dogs, but the dog has rabies. There the names were all found together on his heart. The last of these types is the holy perfume. Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] He will mingle so much of the penal in his dealings as to evince that his clemency is not to be presumed upon.. As far as this figure is concerned, then, our place is represented by Moses when he takes off the vail and is face to face with the glory of God Himself. The Divine name was proclaimed relatively. and the childrens children, to the third and the fourth generation.. This Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. It's just plain sick. The rabies are gonna kill the dog. When the veil was rent (namely, by Christ dying as a man), man could go into the presence of God, at least the believer. 24:18). Not an inference from the phenomena of nature. As we enjoy the vanishing glory of the sun, so did Moses exult in the vision of the Divine glory. But if I look at the passage where it is said, "He made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him," it is evident that we are brought into the very presence of God. The reference is to the fine linen and blue, etc., with the various coverings of goats' hair and badger skins. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. As Law says, this heart is mercy. Law-Lights! preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out Psalms 113:6, Lord, what is man, that he should be thus visited? It is an inexcusable error, however, to suppose that God will finally accommodate to human wickedness. 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. Revelation of Gods Grace. Let us not forget it. "He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." lest I consume thee in the way." And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. This is the way to lose all but a minimum of truth. WebExodus 34:5-8. As being a position, it may have so far a more external sound, but it is a real deliverance, which grace now confers on us in Christ Jesus, not merely the communication of a life which hates sin, but the putting one according to the new place of Christ Himself before God. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. WebExodus 34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. We may know and ought to judge what is passing in the world, though it be through an imperfect medium; but we know heaven and heavenly things from God. The reason is manifest. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. 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. THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GODS *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM VERSES 1-9 MOSES ALLOWED TO SEE GODS GLORY. Still Christ does bring us into His own relationship as far as it is possible for the creature to possess it. Scholars have identified three literary traditions in Exodus, designated by the letters J, E, and P. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. 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. Thus did this visible demonstration of Gods glory avail to awaken faith in the commandments. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION Along with them there is the greatest possible care for the maintenance of one true God an immense principle. But it was presented here for the most part in a way that betrayed the condition of man not in positive precepts but in negative ones a most humbling proof of man's estate. There is no doubt that it is the goodness and mercy of God; but it is to a people still under the government of the law. Deuteronomy 10:4_. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. "Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed.. Now this is exactly what grace does in Christ. marg. The Of them He came, and He deigned to have the memorial of them on this table before God. edit., vol. WebSo the LORD said to Moses: See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them If you only knew the high value God placed upon you, you'd be amazed, if you knew how highly God prized you. WebExodus 34:7. That is, we are children as having God's own nature. made to him. All I can do is just bow my head and worship in wonder and in awe, that God should love me, and care for me, and place value in me so much that He would give His Son for my redemption. THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD. But here we must take care. The Divine goodness. Grace covers through the expiation of Christ, as it flows in virtue of God's work and in maintaining God's order. This is greatly confirmed by what follows. "Lord, do not only pardon it to them, but to their children, and let our covenant-relation to thee be entailed upon our posterity, as an inheritance." invoked Him in worship. Sinai." concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His And when their child is born, it is born with an addiction to drugs. So three times a year they were to appear before God, the God of Israel. This was impossible yet. Slow to anger, Bears long, even when the wrongs of His saints call for His vengeance (Luke 18:7). [This is a feast of Passover.] So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. The Lord God is Exo 33:18-19 _The Lord descended_ By some sensible token of his presence, and 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? But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. As we read it, we must expound it that he will by no means connive at the guilty, as if he took no notice of their sin. Sinai. What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? That as His goodness is based upon His power man must not presume.(2.) What for instance would be the meaning of our being practically sanctified to obedience as well as to have the blood of Jesus sprinkled upon us? Exodus 34:5 is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. He would cause the world to be amazed at the greatness of his power as he drove out nation after nation to give his people the land he had promised them (10-11). 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. The former chapter tells us of the majesty of the divine revelation as it was made to Moses on the mount of God. Let us notice that, whatever was the visible pomp It will scarcely be affirmed that what we discern in the church, while limited to the circumcision, had the same depth and heavenly character stamped upon it, as what was found when the full grace of God broke all barriers and flowed freely among the Gentiles. God is not the discovery of the unaided intellect. "Justified" is not when the prodigal son returns to his father, but when the best robe is put upon him; then he is, according to1 Corinthians 6:1-20; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, not washed and sanctified alone but "justified." "And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. This section coheres This follows here. All changes now. May Christians believe and use for God the portion each has in Christ! Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work" (versesExodus 35:30-35; Exodus 35:30-35). But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 5. Perhaps this satisfied him, and he desired no more; as we read not that Thomas did thrust his hand into Christ's side, though Christ invited him to do it. Six days shalt thou work, but the seventh day shall be a day of rest: even in the harvest time and in the earing time thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [that is] the first of the wheat harvest ( Exodus 34:21-22 ). The Divine name was proclaimed personally. 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