Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. (378) A.V. To the same effect is the next clause, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; for thus the greatness of His clemency is set forth, inasmuch as He not only pardons light offenses, but the very grossest sins; and again, remits not only sin in one case, but is propitious to sinners by whom He has been a hundred times offended. WebWilliam Nicoll Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 34:1-35. (1.) came into the camp. Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the simple application and outflow of His own grace. 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 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. Since Exodus continues the sacred story of the divine promise to Israel begun in Genesis, it must be seen as part of a larger literary unit that is variously understood to include the first four, five, or six books of the Bible. But is it a fact that the church at Jerusalem had the deepest enjoyment of God in apostolic times? Because it was hard to look at his shining face? "And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. No such carnal thought entered as if God had need of bread from man. Jehovah however stands to His own ways, and says to Moses, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. But God, who showed how He would continually remember those He loved, and who could not have a high priest without having their names in honour and love before Him that blessed God has given us much more. In none of these types can one find the full truth of Christ and of His work. 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. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? WebExodus 34:5-8. Let this God be our God for ever and ever. This section coheres REPRESENTATIVE (EXODUS 34:5). When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND Deuteronomy 10:4_. And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and There are all kinds of pressures that have been placed upon the home, and love has been made out to be something that it really isn't. There is no other means of knowing the mind of God; the power for understanding is the Spirit of God; and the object in whose light alone it can be understood is Christ. 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. So Moses requested that he might see the glory of Yaweh. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . His relationship was with them as they then were, redeemed from Egypt by His power and brought to Himself indeed, but only after an outward sort, neither born of God, nor justified. No one would really fault me for it because they know a rabid dog is gonna die anyhow.You've got the same thing, only it isn't a dog, it's people and they've got a deadly infection in their whole religious system. The church comes under that now. and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Ver. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory The Others have had the page of nature spread before them, and yet have been either atheists or idolaters. Sinai. After the call to the people to bring their offerings, we find the use to which they were to be applied First and foremost stands the centre of Levitical worship the ark. Private and Safe We have a nature which answers morally to God whom we imitate as well as obey in light and love, in holy and righteous ways, in mercy, truthfulness, and humility. There is hardly a subject on which men are so apt to make mistakes as the true nature and application of love. [2.] As far as this figure is concerned, then, our place is represented by Moses when he takes off the vail and is face to face with the glory of God Himself. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. lest I consume thee in the way." WebExodus 34:5-8. ". WebEnglish Standard Version. The knowledge of Israel in the millennium will be genuine, for they shall be all taught of God. WebExodus 34:1-4 The second promulgation of the moral law, by the renewal of the two tables may teach us I. His joy in this discovery which God had made of himself, and his thankfulness for it. It has saving joy for countless yet. Thou shalt make thee no molten images ( Exodus 34:15-17 ). Thus he expressed, (1.) They could not exist. It is certain therefore that all the common-places about the law as the rule of the Christian's life are practically a denial of what Christianity is. WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. Nay, mercys arms are very wide; mercys heart is very large; mercys mansions are very many. Now three times in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel ( Exodus 34:22-23 ). I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. WebExodus 34:7. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel. This, one may be permitted to question. "I will me What a solemn but yet gracious manifestation is here made of God. THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW O God, how beautiful the thought,How merciful the blessd decree,That grace can eer be found when sought,And naught shut out the soul from Thee!. 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. It is in vain for any person to pretend that it was better to have the Urim and Thummim, for which one had to seek the priest from time to time when wanted, than to be indwelt always by One who knows all the truth. "Justified" is not when the prodigal son returns to his father, but when the best robe is put upon him; then he is, according to1 Corinthians 6:1-20; 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, not washed and sanctified alone but "justified." They, with Aaron to help them, aimed a blow at the throne of God by making a golden calf. The same with the cloudy They stood in their own strength to obey the law of God, as ignorant of their impotence or of His holy majesty. "Thou shalt make thee no molten images.". 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. Then it was sort of a Thanksgiving. I grant you that, looking at the Pentecostal saints, in them we see the most powerful united testimony that ever was borne in this world; but it was borne in what was comparatively not the severest trial in earthly things chiefly, the superiority of those who had been newly created in Christ to the wretched selfishness of human nature. But is that the highest form of blessedness? If I may venture on such an expression without irreverence, it is the introducing us into the family circle of the heavens the Father made known in the Son by the Holy Ghost. If you only knew the high value God placed upon you, you'd be amazed, if you knew how highly God prized you. 5, p. 346. 5. All I can do is just bow my head and worship in wonder and in awe, that God should love me, and care for me, and place value in me so much that He would give His Son for my redemption. THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GODS *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM VERSES 1-9 MOSES ALLOWED TO SEE GODS GLORY. As Christ is the true and perfect image of God, so is He the expression of all that is good and holy in man. I. I believe that it happened because the Bible declares that it happened. And hence the Prophets seem to have quoted from this passage, (381) Clearing should ye be cleared? ( Jeremiah 25:29,) when they address the reprobate, to whom pardon is denied. 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 your inheritance ( Exodus 34:8-9 ). CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask, "Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory" (Exodus 33:18).We have seen how nobly this petition It was bold faith, working in unfeigned love of the people, and with a deep sense of what God is spite of all demerits; yet its highest petition is based on revealed grace, and is therefore the very reverse of human presumption. WebExodus 34:79. Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life. It is remarkable that on this occasion the tabernacle and all within it were anointed with oil. And Moses was not able to enter because the cloud dwelt thereon, and the glory filled the tabernacle. THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD. ", At once we find him reproaching Aaron, the most responsible man there, who makes a sorry excuse, not without sin. That wasn't the prophet Isaiah thundering out, that was the writer of the book of Hebrews declaring the judgment of God that shall come upon those who have rejected His grace, and His mercy, through Jesus Christ. But, argues Moses, for this very reason, we most of all want Jehovah's presence. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. He's only watching over them. Hence we see its character and the reason why it appears here. THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED Besides this their names were written on the breastplate. Exodus 34:1 He sternly warned his people against copying, or even tolerating, heathen religious practices in their new land. This relative proclamation may be viewed as revealing Gods goodness and Gods justice. 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. He keepeth mercy for thousands. Exodus 34:5-7. 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. prayer. Exodus 39:38-43) the sacrifice of the daily lambs which presented the continual acceptance of the people of God, with the renewed and most express assurance of His dwelling among them. You know, a nation who was really committed unto God. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). It may be added here, as some have found an apparent inconsistency in comparing the passage with 1 Samuel 3:3, that the Hebrew means not "always" in the absolute sense, but continually or constantly. Thus Moses, like a man of a truly public spirit, intercedes even for the children that should be born. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. Woes and wonders were their sublimest ideal of God.(3.) That is the bearing of it all. God had given this as a reason why he would not go along with them, Exodus 33:3; Exodus 33:3. But these are not the only things. You cannot do that to a child without marking the child, without damaging the child psychologically, putting psychic scars upon that child's mind that's gonna be with him the rest of his life.Thank God for the power of the blood of Jesus Christ; it's the only thing that I know that can straighten up the mess that people's minds are in because of some of the stupid things their parents did. The Jew had it after this outward sort, all being comparatively external in Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. He will by no means clear the guilty. He that hath an ear, let him hear, and know, and believe. marg. 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. Can't go more than nine days without water; we'll dehydrate and die. (6.) I have no problem with a God who is able to work miracles. Everything has its beautiful and perfect answer in the word of God; but then all is useless to the soul, except just so far as one sees and receives the Lord Jesus Christ. Gods glory is His goodness. As you see these little gods that are representations, or were representations to the people of Baal, you'll see that Baal's arms are always folded, and the hands in an upright position like this. He will "by no means clear the guilty"; and despite some efforts to distort the meaning of that promise by reading it, "He will not even completely destroy the guilty," no such rendition is honest. Here at least the people are at their work earnestly at work in dishonouring God striking at the very foundation of His truth and honour to their own shame and ruin. And, (3.) 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! In Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46 is given the prescribed ceremonial in consecrating the priesthood. See EXODUS 33:9 NUMBERS 11:17,25. Pagan artists depicted Jupiter with thunder in his right hand, and an eagle at his feet. They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. It is false that the law is dead. (2.) The Divine name was proclaimed relatively. Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1979 in Richmond, California. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. (1-3) Moses asks Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go to the wilderness to worship. First of all they promised obedience; but it was the obedience of the law. Now this mingling of grace with the law is the kind of system which Christians have accepted as Christianity. Let it be remembered that this God has revealed His law, and was about to take the people into covenant relationship with Him. manifestation of his glory. Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. The conditions are the same as before. The It is not merely as having the word that reveals heaven; but we know it from Him who comes from heaven and is above all, and testifies what He has seen and heard; we know it through the Holy Ghost who has come down from it, and hence should know it better than the earth, and the things of the world which ensnare the flesh. "Thousands "; "Lovingkindness for thousands " Thousands of what? WebExodus 34:5 And the Lord descended in the cloud The same with the cloudy pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was on high in the air over the It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. 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. 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. (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. 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? All changes now. On the name of The Lord see on Exodus 3:13. EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION He is merciful. The Divine name was proclaimed condescendingly. We cannot expect the benefit of God's The bells give their sound when the high priest goes in and when he comes out. 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. 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