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8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. What a motive for parents! Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. 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. "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." Grace covers through the expiation of Christ, as it flows in virtue of God's work and in maintaining God's order. So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ As Law says, this heart is mercy. But is that the highest form of blessedness? Both unite in Christ and His atoning death. Thank God there's always a way out, there's always-God has provided a way out through the blood of Jesus Christ that can wash, and cleanse us. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. 5. 6 the lord passed before him and proclaimed, the lord, the lord, a god merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression (2.) "Well, we'll see if we have enough left for ourselves, and if we have enough we'll give it to God." 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. 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. (Exodus 27:1-21) Not less than the ark, the golden throne of God in the most holy place, it shows us God's righteousness; but with this difference between them that gold is the righteousness of God for drawing near where God is; brass is the righteousness of God for dealing with man's evil where man is. 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. The Divine name was proclaimed relatively. 5. The Divine name was proclaimed condescendingly. It would be a glorious thing that three times a year all the men in the nation would have to come and stand before God in this time of worship and so forth. Key Verses (Ex 6:6; Ex 19:56). neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto morning. This cloud was to strike an awe upon Moses, that the familiarity he was admitted to might not breed contempt. Certain. 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. He will not undertake to unfold His Father's words to men in the millennium. What follows, that God keeps mercy to a thousand generations, we have expounded in chapter 20; whilst, on the other hand, the punishments which He requires for mens sins are only extended to the third and fourth generation, because His clemency surpasses His judgment, as is said in Psalms 30:5, (379) There is only a moment in his anger, but life in his favor; and although this only relates properly to believers, yet it flows from a general principle. "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." on the first tables, which thou _AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND There lay the insuperable difficulty once; but now grace perfectly meets it, and meets it in a way which evinces alike the goodness and the wisdom of God. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ): Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah." You know, that would be such a glorious thing if you had a religious nation. I can go into the classrooms here at Maranatha Academy and sit and observe in one day, and at the end of the day I can tell you each child that comes from a broken home, just by watching the characteristics within the child. (377) So the V. Stetit Moyses eum eo, invocans nomen Domini.. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. Deuteronomy 10:4_. God is oftentimes faulted. "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." Yahweh Makes A Proclamation Concerning Himself To His People's Representative (Exodus 34:5). Was this nothing? 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. We cannot expect the benefit of God's That the God with whom we have to do is a great God. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that Now that's the part that I have, "Here God, You can have me for Your inheritance." They are quoted in Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; Joel 2:15; Jonah 4:2; and also Numbers 14:18. This is all the more striking too, because even after the redemption of the people from Egypt there are grievous faults, unbelief, complaints, and murmurs; nevertheless, not a blow, not a single answer on God's part save in tender mercy towards a poor and failing people. The man who met God was unaware of his glory till others told him of it; by contrast, the people who had easily fallen into sin were afraid when they met one who appeared to them as a shining messenger from God (29-35; cf. on high in the air over the mount, and on which the Lord now de And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and But if it isn't there, then it'll go on and it passes from generation to generation.You'll find that in your psychology and in your sociological studies that the-that a person gets his role for parenthood from his parents. For the Christian it is not so. (3.) They were sanctified from the nations by this fleshly separation to obey the law under its solemn and extreme penalty. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 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. Now that's asking God for an awful lot. It has saving joy for countless yet. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. The biblical Exodus is central in Judaism. *Dr. Fairbairn views Christ's whole undertaking as symbolized already in the furniture and services of the Most Holy Place, and therefore considers the things belonging to the Holy Place as directly referring only to the works and services of His people. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. What a place for us, and for us now! Thou shalt not seethe kid in his mother's milk. Sinai. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel. (vs.1-28) This is a branch of God's goodness which the wickedness of sinners gives occasion for; that of Israel had done so: they had tried his patience, and experienced it. Now your first born son, you had to redeem from God. So the LORD said to Moses: God showed amazing patience with His servant Moses. An unwillingness, a hardness of the heart, and an unwillingness to see that the marriage goes. (1.) 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. Now the Lord Jesus will not be dealing then as Son, though then as evermore the Son of God. The first and foundation of all the rest is this: God would disclose Himself in some of them to man, as far as this was possible then; secondly, founded on that and growing out of it, man would be taught to draw near to God. They had denied God, and attributed their deliverance merely to Moses: so Jehovah takes up these very words, and says, "Depart and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it." Everywhere, therefore, in the Psalms, where mention is made of Gods goodness, His truth is connected with it as its inseparable companion. WebExodus 34:7. Now three times in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel ( Exodus 34:22-23 ). PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ By and by we shall bear the image of the heavenly. We can see therefore the moral propriety and beauty of this distinction, which at once separates the shadows of the latter part of Exodus into two main sections. At the same time the righteousness of the law is fulfilled so much the more in those that "walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.". 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. The refusal of forgiveness is for the unrepentant. These very same words in Exodus 20:7 "are rendered `will not hold him guiltless,' and in Jeremiah 30:11, `will not leave unpunished.'"[7]. This was the transfiguration of Moses. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out (1-4) II. The church comes under that now. These things God had already promised, and given Moses assurances of, and yet he prays for them, not as doubting the sincerity of God's grants, but as one solicitous for the ratification of them. Apologetically. They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. 1. Exodus 34. Sinai." Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! 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. They are occupied with the provision of light where God manifested Himself, and in order to the due service of those who entered the sanctuary. Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. You bet your life you would. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). It is the condition of a slave; nevertheless even there God has Christ before Him. 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. Encouraged by this revelation Moses requested again (cf. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. He is abundant in goodness and truth. 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. Revelation of Gods Grace. 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. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the The judgment of One who could not bear sin was represented in the copper sockets of the boards which gave immutable stability; but grace in redemption was that on which all hung and shone in the chapiters and fillets also, the ornament of the work. In June, fifty days after Passover, after seven weeks after Passover, then the next day began-seven weeks would be forty-nine days. Woes and wonders were their sublimest ideal of God.(3.) How greatly blessed then is the Christian, and what the manner and measure of the worship and the walk which become those to whom grace has given such a knowledge of God! Hence, therefore, appears the extent of His goodness, since He blots out an infinite mass of iniquities. It is the putting the believer into an entirely new place before God, which is a different thought from his receiving a new nature. We cannot expect the benefit of God's And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth; keeping lovingkindness 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 the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. 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). fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: My soul, be ready in the Now we know what these mean. We have a figure to which the apostle refers (2 Corinthians 3:1-18), confirming what has just now been stated. 1 And the Lord said to Moses: "Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. Number one, why the veil over the face of Moses? 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. Had He not done so, we should not have had duly raised the solemn question of man's competence to take the ground of his own fidelity before God. 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. Perhaps he has not peace at once, but at any rate he is thoroughly arrested; he desires earnestly to know the gospel from the very first. WebPeter Pett's Commentary on the Bible. At the opening of this book, wh Exodus 34:5 LORD H3068 descended H3381 (H8799) cloud H6051 stood H3320 The Divine justice is Inflexible. "There is nothing more terrible than the way in which sin clings to a man and dogs his footsteps. This was the second proclamation. Jehovah loves to surrender to Moses, as of old to Jacob with far feebler forces. On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." 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. This bespeaks plentiful goodness, goodness abounding above our deserts, above our conception and expression. Where the faultless picture of a servant but in Him? It is God displaying Himself in Christ; but those who had this connection with Christ were Israel. Therefore whatever the work introduced meanwhile whether of grace, as the effectual working of God, or whether of law as proving the inefficiency of man He always holds out His rest, to which He would also direct the eyes of all who love Him. [It was a part of the practice for the land to increase fertility they thought.] It is no less a misfortune for the Christian, because what those in Christ are called to is neither law, nor the mingled system of law interspersed with the gracious care of those under it (who must have been consumed had law reigned alone), but pure grace in Christ without the law. (2.) After that, he besought a month; then a year. 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. Now this mingling of grace with the law is the kind of system which Christians have accepted as Christianity. Yet we know on the best authority that Moses loved the people as not another soul in the camp did. 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? Now observe. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. The blood threatened death on every one who transgressed. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. They that are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. They lost sight of His promises to the fathers. Christ is essentially apart from sin and sinners; we by grace are set apart. manifestation of his glory. In none of these types can one find the full truth of Christ and of His work. The coat of fine linen embroidered means personal righteousness in ways, set off with every beauty of grace. The word continent requires sentence after sentence of explanation to the child-mind; but when the child has become the youthful student, three words suffice to explain the same. He considers that distinct meanings to be attached to the materials, colours, etc., can have no solid foundation, and are " here out of place"! Grace binds us with Christ as Aaron with his sons. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). This is true indeed, but not so nmch an exposition as a plausible conceit. The Lord descended By some sensible token of his presence, and 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. Longsuffering, not good by spasm or effort, but patient and unwearied. God now was performing what he had promised Moses, the day before, that his glory should pass by, Exodus 33:22; Exodus 33:22. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus 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. 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. This is not the time to enter into details; but hear what Moses says to Jehovah now: "See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. We need "the washing of regeneration" and generally the washing of water by the word. Next came the table,* and upon it a defined supply of bread. Exo 33:18-19 _The Lord descended_ By some sensible token of his presence, and He is gracious. Can this God be unkind or unjust? But if there be two separate objects in these types first, God displaying Himself to man; and, secondly, man in consequence drawing near to God the way of all is clear. pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. The For the bare possession of a new nature or place would not enable us to do the will of God. It's just plain sick. But if I don't kill it, that mad dog can actually kill a lot of these beautiful, innocent little children. It is an inexcusable error, however, to suppose that God will finally accommodate to human wickedness. The Lord descended in the cloud. Does not He mean what He says? Is it not known that for a righteous man (which assuredly the believer is) law is not in force, but for lawless and insubordinate, the ungodly and sinful. This is the new division brought in and what might seem at first sight a notable irregularity, as has been observed before, is simply an effect of the perfect arrangement of God's mind. Aaron's sons were then clothed, and girded for priestly work. What man or institution has these qualities? It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. 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. The Divine name was proclaimed absolutely. To the sinner. The priesthood undeniably consisted of that class of persons who had the privilege and duty of going into the sanctuary on behalf of the people. It was no deduction of philosophy, no imposition of priestcraft, but the revelation of the Lord (Job 11:7; 1 Corinthians 1:21). 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. Thus, if the law be the power of sin, grace is of holiness. Mark the answer of Jehovah: "And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. God expounds eleven attributes: YHWH, El, the Merciful One, the Gracious One, the Longsuffering One, the Mighty One, the Kind and Loving One, the True One, the One who Preserves Kindness, the Forgiving One, and the Chastising One. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. THE TEXT OF EXODUS The glory of God, or at any rate the effect of seeing His goodness, was brought too near to them. The Divine name was proclaimed personally. Then follows the ritual required in the act of consecrating Aaron and his sons. "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." He belonged to God automatically. This looks more at evil; "sanctified" to the good which attracted the heart now. Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1979 in Richmond, California. 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. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). (1-3) Moses asks Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go to the wilderness to worship. Hence therefore, no sooner does God propose to them that they should obey His law as the condition of their blessing at His hands, than they at once accept the terms: "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine." This proclamation is of valuei. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD Moses desired to see the _glory_ of This is in connection with God's sanctuary and presence. 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. (2.) 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. It was the seat of Divine Majesty in Israel; and as all know (and most significant it is), the mercy-seat was pre-eminently that throne of God the mercy-seat which afterwards we see with blood sprinkled on it and before it the mercy-seat which concealed the law destructive to the pretensions of man, but maintained it in the place of highest honour, though hidden from human view. His angel is promised, not only to keep and lead Israel, but to bring them in, spite of the doomed Canaanites, who should be driven out: they should have no covenant with them or their gods. It may be looked at in its general and historical bearing, more abstractly as a moral test. Mercy extended to thousands of persons. The feast [Now God lays out the various feasts that they were to have, the three feasts, "the feast",] of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. What impression it made upon him: Moses made haste, and bowed his head,Exodus 34:8; Exodus 34:8. Exodus 25:22, Numbers 7:89. "Sanctified" in this sense is clearly before justification; and so the apostle puts it. 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. On Moses reaching the summit of CHAPTER XXXIV. God in his grace would renew the covenant, and to this end he called Moses back up the mountain. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. 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. It is not always immediate on conversion It may be, and, if you please, ought to be, soon; but still it is far from being always so; and in fact there is and perhaps must be always an interval more or less before comfort or peace is enjoyed. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, and in a very interesting way. 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. And be ready in the descended Exodus 19:18 Exodus 33:9 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 1 Kings *Dr. Fairbairn's "Typology" is here, as in general, poverty itself. 2. Revelation of Gods Grace. THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD. Hence we find, for instance, the righteousness of God in Romans. One inscription was in the shoulder-pieces. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. 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. and the childrens children, to the third and the fourth generation.. The blood of the bullock for a sin-offering was put on the horns of the altar; the blood of one ram for a burnt-offering was sprinkled round about upon the altar; and the blood of the other ram for consecration was put on Aaron's right ear, and that of his sons, on their right thumb and right great toe. 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 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. THE COVENANT WORDS. In him unveiled there we have our figure, not in Moses veiled, still less in Israel The Christian in his full place is nowhere set forth by the Jew. ", See the ground Moses took the unqualified promises of God's mercy, the grace assured to the fathers Impossible for Jehovah to set aside such a plea Nevertheless Moses comes down with the two tables in his hand, the work of God. closely with the last section of the preceding chapter, and must be The word means "exit," "departure" (see Lk 9:31; Heb 11:22 ). upon the children. He is the servant of His own choice for ever. 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