He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. So the veil still over their eyes, not being able to behold the truth of Jesus Christ. Exodus hides the complex details while assets are exchanged in seconds. Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). And, (3.) People who seem to think that the God of the New Testament is all love and forgiveness, and the abrogating of the capital punishment and all of this, had better read the book of Revelation, and they'll find out that He is also a God of judgment, and a God of wrath that shall come and be visited. (vs.1-28) They prepare the way for types which, instead of displaying God in Christ to man, set forth rather man drawing near by the appointed channel to God. Here it seems to be not so much what we have by Christ, but that fragrance in Christ Himself of which God alone is the adequate judge, and which rises up before Him in all its perfection. And it seems well to remark it, because it is of considerable practical and also doctrinal importance, contrasting as it does the place of the Christian with that of the Jew. "And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him." People only read in it what they want to read, but in reality He is revealed in both Testaments as gracious, and loving and kind, and merciful, and forgiving and in both Testaments as a God of judgment and wrath, by no means clearing the guilty; that is, without there being repentance. This was the transfiguration of Moses. It would not be suitable to such a position that there should be undue familiarity. Now we know what these mean. That he is a good God. He sometimes will do it, especially for the punishment of idolaters. He who has wrought expiation for our sins is our life, and at the same time He is the object whom God has revealed to our faith. No doubt the time was not yet come for God to reveal Himself as He is. Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. The conditions are the same as before. 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. pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was 5.And the Lord descended in the cloud It is by no means to be doubted but that the cloud received Moses into it in the sight of the people, so that, after having been separated from the common life of men for forty days, he should again come forth like a new man. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. WebPeter Pett's Commentary on the Bible. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." Had there been any true understanding of their own state in the sight of God they had confessed that, however righteous the obligation to render obedience to the law, they being unrighteous could only be proved guilty under such a proof. the objects of such countless favours, and of such signal honour on God's part. Everywhere, therefore, in the Psalms, where mention is made of Gods goodness, His truth is connected with it as its inseparable companion. He that hath an ear, let him hear, and know, and believe. In Israel's case it was not so. He loved sin so well that God had to interdict it. After that, he besought a month; then a year. promises unless we make conscie Exodus 34:1. Woes and wonders were their sublimest ideal of God.(3.) It is not thus that the believer, even if a Jew and therefore under law, was withdrawn from its condemning power. And the vessels of the sanctuary described after the priesthood are those which preserve the same common character of presenting the service due to God approached in His sanctuary. marg. "And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by thy name." Jehovah directs the attention of Moses to the camp, saying, "I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents. For the bare possession of a new nature or place would not enable us to do the will of God. The more we see of God's goodness the more ashamed we should be of our own sins, and the more earnest for an interest in it. He will not undertake to unfold His Father's words to men in the millennium. Thus he who rejected every overture for his own advancement at the expense of the people now arms the Levites against their brethren. 1. He ordered that there should be the Urim and the Thummim connected with the high priest's breastplate; that is the means of divine guidance for the people. Now this mingling of grace with the law is the kind of system which Christians have accepted as Christianity. How were they worshiping their gods?If you go into the Museum of Natural History in Jerusalem, and you go downstairs, in one area you will find diggings from the archeologists of the pre-Israel culture from the Canaanite period. Very often it is not so little a while, as many of us know to our cost. 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? (2.) For the first time the face of Moses shines after communications with God. In Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46 is given the prescribed ceremonial in consecrating the priesthood. This denotes, [1.] THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. The coat of fine linen embroidered means personal righteousness in ways, set off with every beauty of grace. Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. God would guard His people from an outrage in comeliness, were it even about a dumb or dead animal; as Satan triumphs in all that is abnormal and unnatural in the superstitions which usurp the place of the truth, and are bound up with idolatry. So he would veil his face when he would go out and talk with the children of Israel, because he would have this shining on his face. Pagan artists depicted Jupiter with thunder in his right hand, and an eagle at his feet. Yet the Bible declares, Paul the apostle prayed for the Ephesians that they might know what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints. 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. When God the Father shall have accomplished His present purpose here below, then will be caught up to meet the Lord those among whom the Spirit is thus making known God; and after that the ordinary dealings of God will resume their course through this world. So if their dads were guilty of doing a stupid thing, they'll usually follow that because that's the role model that they had. Exodus 34:1. 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. The Christian position is altogether different: we are elect as children "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit," meaning by this the separating power of the Holy Ghost from the very first moment of our conversion. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. a. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. It would make us feel what ought to be done, but gives not of itself the power to do it. Both unite in Christ and His atoning death. Connected with the subjoined revelation of His goodness, this teaches. 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. 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. Yet what perhaps, well it's not even any worse, but fathers that abuse their own sons. In verses 11-16 is introduced the ransom money of the people, rich and poor alike, as an offering to Jehovah, their atonement money for the service of the sanctuary (for this is the great point here), the link of all with the priests who actually entered on their behalf. Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was Even in glory we shall know Him thus. Jehovah loves to surrender to Moses, as of old to Jacob with far feebler forces. Then (Exodus 20:1-26) are uttered those wonderful ten commandments which are the great centre of divine communications through Moses the fundamental expression of God's law. exodus 34:5 the lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the lord. It is of great interest to observe that the silver paid in by the children of Israel, a bekah or half shekel each, was applied to the production of the silver sockets of the veil, and the hooks of the columns. We must take care that we receive the sense which God intends, otherwise we may err seriously, to His dishonour and to our own hurt and that of others. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's God "hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.". Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. Scripture is positive that the veil is His flesh, but then it is as manifesting the Lord as man here below. That the God with whom we have to do is a great God. In the brazen altar it is the same side of truth, but there is this characteristic difference. 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. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. They're not to make any covenant because, verse fifteen. In the candlestick another truth comes before us. The Old Testament proves, and indeed the New Testament also, how utterly Israel failed, and what the consequences have been alike in the justice and in the grace of God. But it is generally and chiefly a means of health, filled with beautiful sounds, fragrant with sweetest odours, the pathway of sunbeams, the source of sparkling dew, the parent of harvests and fountain of earthly life. You've passed by me, declared Your name, now Lord go ahead and pass among the people, pardon their sin; and take us for Your inheritance." Exodus 32:1-35 reveals a sad interruption after the wonderful communications of God to His servant. "[8] These, however, are not nearly so well defined as the six just listed. Stretches out His hand all the day long, and waits to be gracious. How forcibly does the history of Israel, and indeed of every individual life, bear witness to this! (Exodus 24:1-18) "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship ye afar off." Next, when the law was given, in the very centre of its requirements stands the Sabbath-day. All such doings, &c., must be referred to and compared with the glories that here compose Gods name. This is the God we worship, not the fiction of a disordered fancy or a diseased mind, but the Lord, the Lord God, &c.ii. But if I don't kill it, that mad dog can actually kill a lot of these beautiful, innocent little children. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." The new nature accordingly has right affections and gracious desires; but there is power in the Spirit through Christ Jesus. [Note: See J. Carl Laney, "Gods Self-Revelation in Exodus 34:6-8," Bibliotheca Sacra 158:629 (January-March 2001):36-51.]. Every Christian has a nature that is intrinsically divine, as we are told in 2 Peter 1:1-21. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. God was able to sustain him without food, without water. And the Holy Ghost completes this wonderful circle of divine intimacy. We ought to know heaven better than the earth. Encouraged by this revelation Moses requested again (cf. A man hitherto has been altogether indifferent to the word of God. (2.) No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. It is tragic indeed that really the real victims of divorce are the children. A few words will suffice here before passing on. No doubt all was advancing as regards the world; but that which was brought to us now was before the world, and altogether above the world in its own nature. 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. Thus 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 corresponds with the ark rather than the brazen altar. 5, p. 346. Even the goodness of God must be looked upon by us with a profound veneration and holy awe. The last of these types is the holy perfume. They that are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. Exodus provides an online help desk and 24/7 customer support to get your questions answered, fast. Exodus 33:15) that God would dwell in the midst of Israel and lead His people into the Promised Land (Exodus 34:9). Exodus 34:5 It is evident that law as such, first of all, has no object to present to man. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out At the end of the verse, to call in the name of the Lord, is equivalent to proclaiming His name, or promulgating what God would make known to His servant. Why should souls be driven from the truth by prejudice or clamour? That's how high God prizes you. On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and [not merely Jacob, but] Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. "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." THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. Nevertheless Moses persists in his plea with Jehovah, who does not fail to try him to the utmost by adopting the language of the people. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] WebExodus 34:5-7. No real believer ever takes the ground of pure law. Webadds, "Since, however, this phrase is explained very differently by others, both Exodus 34:7, and Jeremiah 25:29, as well as these words, may be thus rendered: Thou therefore thyself shalt be utterly cut off." His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. STOOD WITH HIM THE Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. He who cannot appreciate the blessedness of such a place, with the great high priest bearing up thus the names of God's people before God, must be very insensible to the highest favours. (1-3) Moses asks Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go to the wilderness to worship. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). The Lord God is Thousands have found mercy; but there are stores for thousands yet.(2.) The Christian loves to obey, and is already forgiven through faith of Jesus and His blood. lest I consume thee in the way." WebNo sooner had Moses got to the top of the mount than God gave him the meeting (Exodus 34:5; Exodus 34:5): The Lord descended, by some sensible token of his presence, and From the time that man fell, He presented grace as the only hope for a sinner. And what was the object of the priesthood? At the opening of this book, wh Exodus 34:5 LORD H3068 descended H3381 (H8799) cloud H6051 stood H3320 Therefore, they were to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread and maintain the practice of redeeming their firstborn (18-20; see 12:15-36; 13:1-16). That as His power supports His goodness man need not despond.2. Merciful, first because mans misery makes him first an object of pity (Judges 10:16; Isaiah 63:19). 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. 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. But man was insensible, and therefore, inasmuch as his heart was continually taking the place of self-righteousness, God's law put him thoroughly to the test. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. 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