Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. Ver. Abundant; to Gods goodness there is no limit. 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. If we consider with any care Romans 3:1-31, it is the righteousness of God presented to man as a sinful being in this world. A gorgeous canopy of cloudsglowing in every tint of gold, scarlet, and purple over the evening sky, alone remains to bear witness to the passing suns magnificence. Deuteronomy 10:4_. "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." (2.) So God is ordering their extermination in order to keep His own people protected from their madness.If we were to hire you here as a lunchtime monitor for the school, and as you were out there watching these beautiful little children that we have here at our academy, and you were watching them playing out there in the yard, and skipping and chasing around and all, and there was to come upon the yard a dog foaming at the mouth, running around and snapping at the children, would you be justified in going over and grabbing that dog and killing it? That he is a just and holy God. The former in its scriptural usage is not merely, I apprehend, that we are born of God, but goes beyond new birth. The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that 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. Exodus provides an online help desk and 24/7 customer support to get your questions answered, fast. 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. 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. 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]. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. 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. For any father to make any kind of a sexual advance towards his daughter, something's got to be sick, sick, sick. came into the camp. Along with them there is the greatest possible care for the maintenance of one true God an immense principle. 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. This looks more at evil; "sanctified" to the good which attracted the heart now. No society can exist that is that corrupted. 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. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. Finally, when the work was finished and all duly set up, a cloud covered the appointed tent, and the glory of Jehovah filled the dwelling. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ): Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: My soul, be ready in the Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Of these the highest is the ark. Additional reminders concerned requirements for sacrifices and firstfruits (25-26; see 23:18-19).God then made a declaration that the covenant Israel had broken was now re-established. They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. "He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." They greatly err who in this sense quote "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin," and stop there. There, the sins of the parents being visited upon the children.Taking it from a sociological standpoint, and a psychological standpoint there are people today who are having a hard time making it in life because their parents were so totally messed up. However, the Jews find in this same passage what they are pleased to call "The Thirteen Attributes of God. From the time that man fell, He presented grace as the only hope for a sinner. (Exodus 26:1-37) Christ is set forth in various ways by the curtains Christ in His human purity and righteousness Christ in what was heavenly Christ in His glory whether Jewish or extending over Gentiles also, with His judicial title asserted. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. 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. This expression, indeed, frequently occurs with reference to prayers. He wanted to prove and manifest the heart of His servant. Hearken, says Law, to the melody of this sweet note. He is abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 25:22, Numbers 7:89. REPRESENTATIVE (EXODUS 34:5). 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.. Ver. But not so: it will take a new shape. 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. 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. Again, in these various figures or institutions of good things to come, the Sabbath re-appears. Unless Jesus Christ comes into their life, unless there comes that change through the power of the gospel, they follow the role model and it goes down from generation to generation to generation. Thus it will always be found in the long run. Then, after the priesthood has been fully brought before us, we have the various portions of their dress. But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all. 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. 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. It is in no way the glory which is the hope of the Christian. 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 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. If a Hebrew servant were bought, he was to serve for six years, in the seventh to go out free for nothing "If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was But practical sanctification there is, and amply insisted on elsewhere; but it is not the point here, and if we attempt to bring practical sanctification into this verse, we destroy the gospel of grace. When the people first swore their faithfulness to the covenant, they promised to keep all its requirements (see 24:3-8), but in practice they failed badly. (1-4) II. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that In the brazen altar it is the same side of truth, but there is this characteristic difference. This is another thing, and only a consequence when the due moment arrives. Scripture never sacrifices one truth to another. The savage who has never seen a rose, can only understand its nature when it is presented to him in full bloom; whereas he who knows what a rose is, realises its beauty and perfection when it is wrapped up in the bud. As surely as God is, man's conscience bears witness to Him. (1.) of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of "And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him." Before we can behold the vision of Eternal Love we must be willing to 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The Lord, the Lord, the His greatness and goodness illustrate and set off each other. Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. But we must not be driven into any error, even the least to avoid the greatest; and it is certainly an error to swamp in one all the ways of God with the soul. The biblical Exodus is central in Judaism. 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. 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. (H8691) proclaimed H7121 (H8799) name Exodus 34:5 , EXODUS 34:29 behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. God has revealed His mind, and to this, if wise, we must needs be subject. This accordingly was proposed. Not atonement. Gods glory is His goodness. Undoubtedly in itself it composed a worldly tabernacle; but this does not hinder these figures from typifying what was to be for the most part of a heavenly character. The nature also of His goodness and clemency is specified, viz., that He is not only placable, and ready, and disposed, to pardon, but that He patiently waits for those who have sinned, and invites them to repentance by His long-suffering. May Christians believe and use for God the portion each has in Christ! For this reason He is called slow (378) to anger, as if He would abstain from severity did not mans wickedness compel Him to execute punishment on his sins. It was necessary, therefore, that the people should know something definite about the Being to whom they were thus intimately related and whom they professed to serve. If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. Aaron's sons were to have coats, priests' girdles, and bonnets for glory and for beauty. There is hardly a subject on which men are so apt to make mistakes as the true nature and application of love. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. As divine life alone can have affections according to God, so a divine object alone can either act on those affections or minister to them. 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). manifestation of his glory. That is the bearing of it all. "Go in and utterly wipe them out." They promise obedience, but it is obedience of the law. The atmosphere is sometimes terrible with thunder, and riven with lightningimpregnated with pestilence, and charged with destruction. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). Thus he expressed, (1.) They that are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. He besought the Lord again to re-establish His covenant acknowledging the sinfulness of the Israelites with whom he humbly identified. He's only protecting the innocent children that He's bringing in to inherit the land, His children. Human sacrifice was commonly practiced, as well as all kinds of licentious practices.Now by the very nature of their worship they would soon destroy themselves. That would be absolutely glorious. All this was plain, but in the tabernacle we have more than this. All these, I have no doubt, have their own proper significance, as manifesting the character of Christ here below. Where will one find what man should be but in Christ? That is, we are children as having God's own nature. Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. You see the first born son used to always be the priest of the house, he belonged to God. 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. Apologetically. 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. They are made of iron; they are made of stone. WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. When Moses ceased to commune with 1. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Moses was near enough to God in the tabernacle, outside the camp, to get a better view of His grace than he ever enjoyed before. (6.) 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. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. The glory of God, or at any rate the effect of seeing His goodness, was brought too near to them. Very simple are the words and expressions; but how detailed. clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose EXPOSITION of your cattle, ox, sheep, all of the first born male. 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. He may justly do it, for all souls are his, and there is a malignity in sin that taints the blood. He descended in the cloud Probably 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. The prime idea in blood seems always to be the life given up, i.e., death, in acknowledgment of the guilt of the one concerned. "Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. 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