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This is the authorised revelation of the character of God. No.In Corinthians we are told that the reason for the veil over his face is so that they would not see the shining go away, fading. We know His tender mercy in the smallest matters; but in that which so nearly concerns His honour, it is indeed a truly merciful provision that the Great High Priest bears the iniquity of holy things, where other wise defilement would be fatal. 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. The church comes under that now. The knowledge of Israel in the millennium will be genuine, for they shall be all taught of God. 1. 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! Aaron's sons were to have coats, priests' girdles, and bonnets for glory and for beauty. Countless and ceaseless as are the benefits which are imparted to us by the bright orb of day, the human eye cannot look upon his undimmed noonday face, without being blinded. 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. Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. 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? 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 latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. Their relationship with the parents was just so off the wall that their minds just block out years of their childhood and they can't even tell you about areas of their childhood because the psychic wounds are so great that they just-they've had to build a wall and they just blocked it out. REPRESENTATIVE (EXODUS 34:5). Thus, it means thousands of generations! Even then, being still unable, he declined the task, declaring that the more he thought of God, the less was he able to describe Him.(2.) In short therefore the children of Israel stood on the ground of man in the flesh; and man in the flesh, as he is a sinful being, can neither deny nor accomplish his obligation to do the will of God. It's just plain sick. (Exodus 21:1-36; Exodus 22:1-31; Exodus 23:1-33) These points do not call for particular remarks. "And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Moses intercedes for the people the fourth time (8-9) IV. clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose EXPOSITION regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 The measure of it for the Christian is based on the fact that he possesses life, and that he has Christ Himself, the object which shows him the position in which he stands, and consequently the character of the relationship that attaches to him. There is distance, even though they are called to this place of distinction. Some read it so as to express a mitigation of wrath, even when he does punish: When he empties, he will not make quite desolate; that is, "He does not proceed to the greatest extremity, till there be no remedy." Christ is essentially apart from sin and sinners; we by grace are set apart. Moses sees them so stiff-necked that, for his part, he has neither patience nor power enough to deal with them. Nobody doubts the good intentions of such as interpret it thus; but these are not enough with the word of God. 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. 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." THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Beware how you break Gods laws; you not only entail punishment on yourself, but your poisoned blood will flow in the veins of your degenerate offspring! Our only business is to learn what He is, what He says, and, more than that, to confide in Him; and when we do not know what He means, always to take the ground of faith against all adversaries. (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." 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. 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. WebExodus 34:5-8. Thou shalt not seethe kid in his mother's milk. The Divine name was proclaimed absolutely. WebExodus 34:1 Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets 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. Now the Lord Jesus will not be dealing then as Son, though then as evermore the Son of God. They are only a faint and partial adumbration of the infinite reality, and could not possibly be more. The brazen laver judged sin by the word of God, just as the brazen altar judged it sacrificially. God has revealed His mind, and to this, if wise, we must needs be subject. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. As surely as God is, man's conscience bears witness to Him. This is what is going on every day now in Christendom. 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like "I will 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the Exodus 34. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. Let it be remembered that this God has revealed His law, and was about to take the people into covenant relationship with Him. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that In June, fifty days after Passover, after seven weeks after Passover, then the next day began-seven weeks would be forty-nine days. WebExodus 34:79. 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). promises unless we make conscie Exodus 34:1. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. If you only knew the high value God placed upon you, you'd be amazed, if you knew how highly God prized you. "Yea," says Moses, "the rather go along with us; for the worse they are the more need they have of thy presence and grace to make them better." And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. "And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. Because it was hard to look at his shining face? Thus, though physically it is an impossibility, we are dealing with a God of miraculous power and God who can set aside certain laws of nature.Now I don't recommend that you try and go forty days and forty nights without water or food. It is false that the law is dead. For instance, in the earlier half of Exodus, where we have God's dealings in grace, the Sabbath-day is brought in, marked out by the bread God provided for His people, the manna the figure of Christ come down from heaven to be the food of the hungry on earth: then followed the Sabbath at once. But cloud by day and fire by night, the token of is presence was ever before all Israel (versesExodus 40:34-38; Exodus 40:34-38). This expression, indeed, frequently occurs with reference to prayers. The last of these types is the holy perfume. went in before Jehovah] viz. CALLED UPON _the name of_ JEHOVAH] i.e. (2 Corinthians 3:1-18) Hence we can understand the earthly, external, and temporal character of the legal economy. He keepeth mercy for thousands. Forgiveness is for the repentant. 1. The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey. And so one might go through every quality and every office, and find them only in perfection in our Lord Jesus. (1-4) II. He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it. The apostle uses this to show that, as the veiled Moses speaking to the people of Israel is the most apt possible figure of the actual state in which they were placed (that is, not law simply, but with gracious care for the people mingled with it), so the condition of the Christian is in marked contrast. Key Verses (Ex 6:6; Ex 19:56). But, argues Moses, for this very reason, we most of all want Jehovah's presence. It was now a question of a nation, and not of individuals merely, thus governed of one nation in the midst of many which were to behold in it the consequences of fidelity or the lack of it toward the law of Jehovah. Then the high priest alone was anointed; as we know Christ could be and was sealed of God the Father without blood, the Spirit thus attesting both the absolute purity of His person and the truth of His Sonship as man. 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. Encouraged by this revelation Moses requested again (cf. Their conduct proved that His grace had not at all entered into their hearts. God, the cloud removed from the door of the Tent of Meeting, Doubtless to a superficial glance it appears somewhat unaccountable, in the midst of describing the various parts of the sanctuary, to interrupt the course of it by dragging into the very midst of it the consecration of Aaron and his sons. This, one may be permitted to question. Very often it is not so little a while, as many of us know to our cost. They are one in the same God. 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. All the people then saw the thunderings and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, and stood afar off, asking that not God but Moses should speak with them. Had He dealt on the ground of pure law, how could it have been? "And the God of the Old Testament, is a God of wrath, and judgment, but I love the God of the New Testament who is forgiving, and gracious and kind." This relative proclamation may be viewed as revealing Gods goodness and Gods justice. Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it. The Lord God is In Nehemiah 9:17, and elsewhere, slow to anger. Heb., 5 long of nostrils, or anger. 2. Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. 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. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; God therefore makes much of the sign. [This is a feast of Passover.] He will not be put off. Now we do so know Him. In one of the cases you will see many of the little gods that were representing Baal. Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. But if they are allowed to make a covenant and live among the people, they will infect God's people with this same deadly corruption. A few words on this subject may not be amiss for any souls that have not adequately considered the matter, as there is hardly anything on which men are so much at fault as this question.
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