And so on this occasion to the meek and wistful Moses preaching the Gospel, Jehovah expanded that one word of love into the name: The Lord God, merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin., The sun has lost his rage; his downward orbShoots nothing more but animating warmthAnd vital lustre; that, with various ray,Lights up the clouds, those beauteous robes of heaven., (1.) Let a man once steal, and he is never trusted again, even though he has made reparation for it. [1] Their current lineup consists of guitarists Gary Holt and Lee Altus, bassist Jack Gibson, drummer Tom Hunting, and lead vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza. The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and comfort on his special mission. The springs of mercy are always full, the streams of mercy always flowing; there is mercy enough in God, enough for all, enough for each, enough for ever. But sincerity will not serve in lieu of His word; and our own thoughts and desires can never be trusted as a standard of principle or of practice. The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and that pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had Now that God has a priesthood through the tribe of Levi, if you want to keep your first born son, then you had to redeem him from God. "Exodus" is a Latin word derived from Greek Exodos, the name given to the book by those who translated it into Greek. In answer to Moses who advances in his demands, yet withal no less suiting them to the divine glory than to the people's wants according to the light then vouchsafed, God makes a covenant different from what went before. 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 ). We are born of God, and not merely adopted as if we were strangers to Him. In the greater part of the ten commandments, in short, it was not "Thou shalt," but "Thou shalt not." Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." We need "the washing of regeneration" and generally the washing of water by the word. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that Then follows the ritual required in the act of consecrating Aaron and his sons. This is the peculiarity. The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey. It was the state in which the children of Israel were put here, and was a very great mercy for them in a certain sense. I believe that it happened because the Bible declares that it happened. Accordingly we may regard the law as a whole, consisting not only of moral claims but of national institutes, ordinances, statutes, and judgment) under which Israel were put. True, God is revealed there (Romans 1:20); but the key is wanted to decipher the hieroglyphics, and that key is the Scriptures which are given by inspiration of God.. In the beginning ofExodus 21:1-36; Exodus 21:1-36 we find the type of the servant. The atmosphere is sometimes terrible with thunder, and riven with lightningimpregnated with pestilence, and charged with destruction. As surely as God is, man's conscience bears witness to Him. It may be added here, as some have found an apparent inconsistency in comparing the passage with 1 Samuel 3:3, that the Hebrew means not "always" in the absolute sense, but continually or constantly. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. The new vision and commission. There cannot be a more striking illustration of the truth that Christ is the continual object of the Holy Ghost than that, even in these temporary ordinances, God cannot refrain from looking onward to His Son. Moses stressed the mercy of God in this exposition of Gods name, Yahweh (cf. Thus there are plainly two distinct senses of sanctification: one absolute, in which a man is severed once for all from the world to God; the other relative, as being practical and hence differing in measure in the after career of each Christian. There indeed is the truth. 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. 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. "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. 2. ". Not an inference from the phenomena of nature. For I will cast out the nations before thee, enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year. God "hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.". He descended in the cloud Probably Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a See on Exodus 33:19. Where the faultless picture of a servant but in Him? CHAPTER XXXIV. That the God with whom we have to do is a great God. 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! This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Here at least the people are at their work earnestly at work in dishonouring God striking at the very foundation of His truth and honour to their own shame and ruin. Now if gold represents God's righteousness which we approach within; and if brass or rather copper means, when thus symbolically viewed, His righteousness as applied to man outside in His immutable judgment, what is the force of silver in this connection? Can this God be unkind or unjust? And then they would take their babies and place them in the arms of Baal and allow them to be burned to death as they sacrificed unto this little idol. 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like (2.) First of all they promised obedience; but it was the obedience of the law. Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. In Exodus 31:1-18 we have all this closed with two facts the Spirit of God empowering man to make a tabernacle according to the pattern, and the Sabbath-day connected with the order of the tabernacle. He is the intrinsic power by which the truth is received into the heart, but Christ is the object. _v._2) _with him there, and_ 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exodus 33:18. Where will one find what man should be but in Christ? But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. That is, we are children as having God's own nature. This was the second proclamation. The utmost alacrity in answer to the call for material, useful and ornamental, common or costly, is shown by all. THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never Thus did this visible demonstration of Gods glory avail to awaken faith in the commandments. 8. God, the cloud removed from the door of the Tent of Meeting, 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. In Nehemiah 9:17, and elsewhere, slow to anger. Heb., 5 long of nostrils, or anger. "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." The holiness of God is as a consuming fire to the guilty conscience; but within this light inaccessiblewithin this refulgent atmosphere of truth and sanctity, is a glory more intimate and essential still, the inmost perfection and divinest beauty of the Godhead. pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. This always abides; for the law is lawful if a man use it lawfully. That is so absolutely sick I can't even think of it. There's a difference between seeing and observing, and God isn't saying, "see the things I command you, but observe", that is see and live in harmony with it. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. When Christ went into the presence of God, what a mighty effect did not the Spirit produce! Not a soul that has been since brought to the knowledge of God but what at least ought to have profited in point of fact, must have profited by this grave lesson. were in the first tables, which you broke. The Divine justice is Inflexible. The cloudy pillar, which had stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting ( Exodus 33:10 ), was withdrawn while Moses ascended Sinai, and probably disappeared from men's sight. Advantage must not be taken of the weak or subject; violence cannot go unpunished, any more than dishonour where we owe reverence; responsibility for what is allowed, were it but a mischievous brute; restitution must be made, and this double, fourfold, or even fivefold, according to the wrong; neither a witch nor an offender unnaturally could live; neither stranger nor widow nor orphan must be vexed or afflicted; neither poor must be burdened, nor judges reviled; but God is to be honoured with the first of the fruits, and of the sons, as well as of the cattle. No such carnal thought entered as if God had need of bread from man. "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." I have no problem with a God who is able to work miracles. Here we find God declaring Himself to Moses as merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping the mercy for thousands, and forgiving the iniquities and transgressions. These verses, as Stock says, show that the revelation of God was not merely to the outward sight, but chiefly to the heart and mind of Moses. But, again, Aaron with the golden plate (engraved "Holiness to Jehovah") always on his forehead, bears the iniquity of Israel's holy things that they may be accepted; an important consideration, especially when we know the seriousness and the facility of iniquity therein. But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all. His holy submission to the will of God, made known in this declaration, subscribing to his justice as well as mercy, and putting himself and his people Israel under the government and direction of such a God as Jehovah had now proclaimed himself to be. Now, in all these things it is the display of what God is to man; God Himself in His own sole majesty in the ark, God Himself associated with man, with Israel, in the show-bread, God Himself with this light of the sanctuary or the power of the Spirit of God. Now we must always bear in mind that, though in the Christian walking aright the righteousness of the law will surely be fulfilled, never has Christianity either a legal principle or a legal character: not a legal principle because it flows from the known grace of God to the soul; not a legal character because it is consistency with Christ risen from the dead, not merely with the Ten Command meets. Although a revelation of the Divine Being was necessary, yet one so full and gracious was surely the result of the beneficent condescension of God. Exodus 34. This proclamation is of valuei. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. Many words are here heaped up, to acquaint us with, and convince us of, God's goodness, and to show how much his goodness is both his glory and his delight, yet without any tautology. 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? Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. Thus, whatever sin on our part may call for, we have here the whole scene of creation, all things in heaven and all things on earth, claimed in the power of the Spirit in virtue of Christ's person and title, just as He was in fact anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power apart from blood-shedding. WebExodus 34:79. Comp. 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. And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Abisamach, of the tribe of Dan. We know Him better than even His earthly people will know Him by and by. First of all, the name of Jehovah is uttered twice by way of emphasis, in order that Moses might be rendered more attentive. Their conduct proved that His grace had not at all entered into their hearts. 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. But these are not the only things. False report and testimony are forbidden, were a multitude to lead the way; as on the other hand there must be no partiality to the poor man's cause, nor a refusal to help an enemy, nor falsehood, nor bribery, nor oppression. (5.) 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. 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 Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). All of the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Let us then bow to God instead of forcing our own meaning on scripture. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; The Divine goodness. He will mingle so much of the penal in his dealings as to evince that his clemency is not to be presumed upon.. This is greatly confirmed by what follows. You can enter into a totally new, beautiful life in Christ, and only He can erase the psychic scars that so damaged some of you from your childhood and the things that you experienced in childhood. The childs primer on geography is a very different thing from that which the child has in mature school-days. "And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the Ten commandments.". All this was plain, but in the tabernacle we have more than this. WebJohn Gill's Exposition of the Bible /. He is long-suffering, that is, he is slow to anger, and delays the execution of his justice; he waits to be gracious, and lengthens out the offers of his mercy. You know, a nation who was really committed unto God. Hence, therefore, appears the extent of His goodness, since He blots out an infinite mass of iniquities. Exodus 34:1. This is the way to lose all but a minimum of truth. His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. 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. They had been wholly insensible to His ways of grace in leading them out of Egypt to Sinai. They are only a faint and partial adumbration of the infinite reality, and could not possibly be more. They that are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. Exodus 1 New International Version The Israelites Oppressed 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all. And when Aaron and all of the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to come near him. Law is essentially incapable of helping, because being only a claim on God's part, and a definition of His demands, it can only condemn him whose condition makes due obedience impossible. 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