The consequence of such a division is indeed lowering in the extreme. Exodus 34:1 Exodus 33:18. Such is the line which divides them. They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." Divorce has become such an easy thing. He is long-suffering, that is, he is slow to anger, and delays the execution of his justice; he waits to be gracious, and lengthens out the offers of his mercy. "Lord, do not only pardon it to them, but to their children, and let our covenant-relation to thee be entailed upon our posterity, as an inheritance." They that are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. He immediately grounded a prayer upon it (Exodus 34:9; Exodus 34:9); and a more earnest affectionate prayer it is, (1.) Exodus 34:1 What man or institution has these qualities? In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant That he is a just and holy God. Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a See on Exodus 33:19. In this opinion there is no absurdity; let us be at liberty, then, to take it as applying either to Moses or to God Himself, i.e., either that God Himself proclaimed in a loud voice His power, and righteousness, and goodness, or that Moses himself professed his piety before God. 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. 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. The Lord God is With this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. 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. 8. "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." 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them This relative proclamation may be viewed as revealing Gods goodness and Gods justice. Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 34:5-7 Commentary on Exodus 34:5-9 (Read Exodus 34:5-9) The Lord descended by some open token of his presence and manifestation of his glory in a cloud, and thence proclaimed his NAME; that is, the perfections and character which are denoted by the name JEHOVAH. Calvin Soc. The childs primer on geography is a very different thing from that which the child has in mature school-days. God is not the discovery of the unaided intellect. "As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." WebExodus 34:7. There's a difference between seeing and observing, and God isn't saying, "see the things I command you, but observe", that is see and live in harmony with it. It is the application of the full power of the work of the Lord Jesus. "I will This is the brightest jewel of His crownovertopping the heavens, outliving all times, outshining all perfections. As promised in Exodus 33:19. _and_ HE (Moses) TOOK HIS STAND (cf. 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. WebHis thoughts are with the nation of Israel and the reaching of the goal God had set for them: the conquest of Canaan. They are made of iron; they are made of stone. 448-49. 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. For the privileges of a peculiar people: "Take us for thy inheritance, which thou wilt have a particular eye to, and concern for, and delight in." For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, [Verse nineteen] All that openeth the matrix is mine; [So the first born of everything belongs to God.] The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. It is not God who thus deals with humanity, of which Israel was the chosen specimen, and the one remembered before Him; but in the seven candlesticks, or rather the candelabrum with its seven lights, we clearly see the type of Christ as the power and giver of the Holy Ghost in testimony for God. God does not stop here. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. You shall speak all that I command you. prayer. On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. Pardoning mercy is specified, because in this divine grace is most magnified, and because in this divine grace is most magnified, and because it is this which opens the door to all other gifts of his divine grace, and because of this he had lately given a very pregnant proof. _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ The people thereon mourn; and Moses has recourse to a remarkable act. You see the first born son used to always be the priest of the house, he belonged to God. If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. "Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. 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. "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." The refusal of forgiveness is for the unrepentant. Still Christ does bring us into His own relationship as far as it is possible for the creature to possess it. The bells give their sound when the high priest goes in and when he comes out. forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents. When the veil was rent (namely, by Christ dying as a man), man could go into the presence of God, at least the believer. The doors stand open. 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." 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. For what was presented there? manifestation of his glory. THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never The Lord descended in the cloud. 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 ). Both unite in Christ and His atoning death. Where will one find what man should be but in Christ? They promise obedience, but it is obedience of the law. WebWilliam Nicoll Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 34:1-35. 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. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. When God the Father shall have accomplished His present purpose here below, then will be caught up to meet the Lord those among whom the Spirit is thus making known God; and after that the ordinary dealings of God will resume their course through this world. That will by no means clear the guilty. This inspires us with the confidence that right is the order of the universe. when from Thy pavilionThou lookest forth at morning; flying wideThose curtain-clouds of purple and vermilion.Dispensing life and light on every side., Divine Glory! And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and Aaron's sons were then clothed, and girded for priestly work. 1. He describes the Christian in terms which at once recallExodus 24:1-18; Exodus 24:1-18. First, they were all washed in the water, Aaron and his sons. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. They were sanctified from the nations by this fleshly separation to obey the law under its solemn and extreme penalty. The Lord accordingly hearkens in grace, and undertakes for Israel against the Canaanites, warning them against a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and insisting on His own sole worship, His feasts, His firstlings and firstfruits; on His sabbaths, on the absence of leaven and unseemly ways, the fruit of Satan's wiles among the heathen. It can press duty to God and man on pain of death, but it has no object to reveal. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. IN THE CLOUD; in the cloudy pillar, which ordinarily stood up in the See EXODUS 33:9 NUMBERS 11:17,25. It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. This warning was particularly appropriate in view of recent events in the worship of the golden idol. (vs.1-28) He will by no means clear the guilty. 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 would not be suitable to such a position that there should be undue familiarity. For the first time the face of Moses shines after communications with God. All this was plain, but in the tabernacle we have more than this. As long as this was the case only, man could not come to God. 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. Is it not His grace shown in man, even in the man Christ Jesus? What for instance would be the meaning of our being practically sanctified to obedience as well as to have the blood of Jesus sprinkled upon us? Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. He had made himself known to Moses in the glory of his self-existence and self-sufficiency when he proclaimed that name, I am that I am; now he makes himself known in the glory of his grace, and goodness, and all-sufficiency to us. The The rest of the book of Exodus consists of the people's response, and the actual accomplishment of the directions that were given inExodus 25:1-40; Exodus 25:1-40; Exodus 26:1-37; Exodus 27:1-21; Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46; Exodus 30:1-38, and calls for no lengthened remarks in such a sketch as this. 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." It's a miracle that he could do it. So I would be thoroughly justified in killing that dog so that it would not infect the innocent children and destroy them. In one of the cases you will see many of the little gods that were representing Baal. Amongst astronomers, remarks Hamilton, it is a favourite speculation that the sun himself is something else than a mere ball of fire, and that inside of his burning atmosphere there may be a mighty globe with cool meadows, seas of glass, rivers of crystal, and every conceivable provision for a vast and rejoicing populationthe possible home of even the just made perfect. 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible, Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh, Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith. revelation that "God is love." "There is nothing more terrible than the way in which sin clings to a man and dogs his footsteps. But at any rate His goodness is caused to pass before him, which in Exodus 34:1-35 he sees. The Divine name was proclaimed absolutely. We may have absolute confidence in the word of God. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that As no sacrifice was absent here, so we enjoy all the value of Christ and His work. To the afflicted. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ): Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". 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. Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the simple application and outflow of His own grace. WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. Private and Safe 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. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. In these shadows* we may see two very different characters or classes, we may say, into which they are divisible. His mercy is grace, free grace; this teaches us to be not only pitiful, but courteous, 1 Peter 3:8. This is true, no doubt; but unless it goes farther than this, it is a declarative sanction of God's punishing in case of failure to meet His demands. 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. Exodus provides an online help desk and 24/7 customer support to get your questions answered, fast. The former chapter tells us of the majesty of the divine revelation as it was made to Moses on the mount of God. Let us notice that, whatever was the visible pomp 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. Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. th College Press Bible Study Textbook Series, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible, Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible, Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible, Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh, Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith. (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. On the list of blessings that God has given to me, I'll tell you that's the-near the top of the list that godly home that I had. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's It is the putting the believer into an entirely new place before God, which is a different thought from his receiving a new nature. 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