10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the "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." 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. He descended in the cloud, probably that pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had the day before met Moses at the door of the tabernacle. And Jehovah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that This is the authorised revelation of the character of God. The Lord descended in the cloud. God now was performing what he had promised Moses, the day before, that his glory should pass by, Exodus 33:22; Exodus 33:22. Very simple are the words and expressions; but how detailed. 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. 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. That is the bearing of it all. That he is a good God. The Divine goodness. They are only a faint and partial adumbration of the infinite reality, and could not possibly be more. They stood in their own strength to obey the law of God, as ignorant of their impotence or of His holy majesty. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION 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. It would make us feel what ought to be done, but gives not of itself the power to do it. That as His goodness is based upon His power man must not presume.(2.) Gracious, because unless Gods goodness was tree, spontaneous, and unconstrained, man could never enjoy it, as he has not the wherewith to purchase or deserve or draw it forth (2 Corinthians 8:9). Law-Lights! Ignorant of God as well as of themselves, they dared to take their stand on His law. 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. 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. The Jew had it after this outward sort, all being comparatively external in Israel. Of them He came, and He deigned to have the memorial of them on this table before God. "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." That is, we are children as having God's own nature. Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. 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. prayer. 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. This shows the essential difference between law and grace, which last means God giving in Christ all that man really needs for His own glory. The Son of the Father, He brings us into the knowledge of the true God as the Son knew Him in heaven, as the Son still of course knew Him on earth. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). But it remains always true that there is this difference. 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. But these are not the only things. CHAPTER XXXIV. A few words will suffice here before passing on. This warning was particularly appropriate in view of recent events in the worship of the golden idol. So I would be thoroughly justified in killing that dog so that it would not infect the innocent children and destroy them. You see the first born son used to always be the priest of the house, he belonged to God. This is true indeed, but not so nmch an exposition as a plausible conceit. As no sacrifice was absent here, so we enjoy all the value of Christ and His work. So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. No society can exist that is that corrupted. The understanding of this comes in the antithesis in the word "generation" at the end of Exodus 34:7. 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. Sinai. manifestation of his glory. 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 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. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. Jesus emphasized over and over, "unless you repent, you will likewise perish".People are troubled with the fact that it declares, "visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." God may treat them as the people of Moses, and say, "They are the people you have brought up: they are your people." and, as it would seem, disappeared. The guilty may be spared so that they may repent, but they will not be cleared. The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. 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. 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 last In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant For pardon of sin: "O pardon our iniquity and our sin, else we cannot expect thee to go among us." This proclamation is of valuei. 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. Scholars of all shades of belief have extolled and praised the revelation here concerning the nature, or attributes, of God Himself. WebWith this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8). And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. (3.) 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. So they are going to destroy themselves. If the Spirit of God here puts "sanctified" before "justified," our plain duty is to learn what is meant, not to wrest His word because of Popish misuse of it a misuse due largely to the common ignorance of the primary force of sanctification. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. Now there are all kinds of molten images in the land of Canaan. Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the simple application and outflow of His own grace. 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The LORD, the thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. By these words, therefore, His eternity and boundless power are expressed. And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. It may be looked at in its general and historical bearing, more abstractly as a moral test. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount. By and by we shall bear the image of the heavenly. before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, 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, upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ( Exodus 34:1-7 ). 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. 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