me What a solemn but yet gracious manifestation is here made of God. (vs.1-28) regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them 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. 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. clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose EXPOSITION He will not give up his love and desire for Israel. The Christian loves to obey, and is already forgiven through faith of Jesus and His blood. And, (3.) In the latter part of the chapter we have clearly the legal glory. This is the brightest jewel of His crownovertopping the heavens, outliving all times, outshining all perfections. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION Exodus 34:1. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ lest I consume thee in the way." The last chapter records, first, Jehovah's call to Moses to set up the dwelling of the appointed tent on the first day of the first month (i.e., in the second year, ver. 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. His relationship is that of a son, not merely of one adopted into that place with no more reality than he obtains in human things. 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. And Jehovah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." 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 He says that we are elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. They greatly err who in this sense quote "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin," and stop there. me What a solemn but yet gracious manifestation is here made of God. His making a cloud his pavilion intimated that, though he made known much of himself, yet there was much more concealed. thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. In his own heart, in his purposes and decrees, in his counsels and covenant, in his Son, with whom he keeps it for ever, and for all in him, ( Psalms 89:28 ) and they are Against the fruits of the Spirit there is no law, as the apostle so emphatically says to the Galatians. 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. WebSo the LORD said to Moses: See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. He hears it now; he receives Jesus as the gift of God's love with all simplicity. Intimacy with what is unseen and heavenly is quite as much the portion of a Christian and even more characteristically so than the knowledge of what passes around us now. 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. Hence we see its character and the reason why it appears here. He will mingle so much of the penal in his dealings as to evince that his clemency is not to be presumed upon.. Exodus 34:1. So Moses requested that he might see the glory of Yaweh. 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? But not so: it will take a new shape. 5, p. 346. Once more the Divine justice operates through natural laws, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, &c. How? WebExodus 34:5-8. "And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men." No doubt it was connected with the earth, and what was in itself anything but a condition suitable to the mind of God. dus ek-s-ds eg-z- 1 capitalized : the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table 2 : a mass departure : emigration Did 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. And I love dogs, but the dog has rabies. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life. And what sweet beauties did his eyes descryemblems of those invisible beauties which the soul in communion with God beholds, The vivid brilliant streaksOf crimson disappear, but oer the hillsA flush of orange hovers, softening upInto harmonious union with the blueThat comes a-sweeping down., (1.) 2. As Christ is the true and perfect image of God, so is He the expression of all that is good and holy in man. There indeed is the truth. Such an one may be very ignorant, no doubt; but at any rate his heart is made up to obey the Lord his desire is Godward. 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. Christ is essentially apart from sin and sinners; we by grace are set apart. 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. (1.) 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. This bespeaks plentiful goodness, goodness abounding above our deserts, above our conception and expression. Thou shalt not seethe kid in his mother's milk. proclaimed the name of the LORD. (4.) is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. The children have to suffer because of the sins of the parents.There are even worse cases of children suffering for the sins of the parent, for there are parents who are-mothers who are addicted to drugs. 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 He delivered up His own Son for you because He prizes you that much. Sinai." Advantage must not be taken of the weak or subject; violence cannot go unpunished, any more than dishonour where we owe reverence; responsibility for what is allowed, were it but a mischievous brute; restitution must be made, and this double, fourfold, or even fivefold, according to the wrong; neither a witch nor an offender unnaturally could live; neither stranger nor widow nor orphan must be vexed or afflicted; neither poor must be burdened, nor judges reviled; but God is to be honoured with the first of the fruits, and of the sons, as well as of the cattle. 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. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. It is a great mistake to suppose that the proclamation of divine goodness in this scene is the gospel. and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Christianity teaches its value instead of neutralising it. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. After that, he besought a month; then a year. He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. Their relationship with the parents was just so off the wall that their minds just block out years of their childhood and they can't even tell you about areas of their childhood because the psychic wounds are so great that they just-they've had to build a wall and they just blocked it out. 7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,b. 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. God therefore makes much of the sign. (1.) WebNo sooner had Moses got to the top of the mount than God gave him the meeting ( Exodus 34:5; Exodus 34:5 ): The Lord descended, by some sensible token of his presence, and manifestation of his glory. The New Tables of the Law for the People prone to a Hierarchy. God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. So if their dads were guilty of doing a stupid thing, they'll usually follow that because that's the role model that they had. Exodus 25:22, Numbers 7:89. It is true that God had taken every care to show His own mind about it. He who has wrought expiation for our sins is our life, and at the same time He is the object whom God has revealed to our faith. Revelation of Gods Grace. Ready to exchange Bitcoin for another asset? Thus, it is plain, nothing can be more complete. This does not take them out of their condition of flesh and blood and all that pertains to it. They were a people in the flesh. Scholars have identified three literary traditions in Exodus, designated by the letters J, E, and P. Had there been any true understanding of their own state in the sight of God they had confessed that, however righteous the obligation to render obedience to the law, they being unrighteous could only be proved guilty under such a proof. 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. (3.) revelation that "God is love." The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered More manifestly we shall be heavenly at the coming of Christ, but not more really than at present. And be ready in the descended Exodus 19:18 Exodus 33:9 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 1 Kings We have reason gratefully to acknowledge God's goodness to us, not only in the real instances of it, but in the declarations he has made of it by his word; not only that he is, and will be, gracious to us, but that he is pleased to let us know it. As we enjoy the vanishing glory of the sun, so did Moses exult in the vision of the Divine 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 Yet even then Jehovah, while warning against making gods of silver and gold, deigned to direct them to make to Him an altar of ground for burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: if of stone two prohibitions instruct His people. This cloud was to strike an awe upon Moses, that the familiarity he was admitted to might not breed contempt. In Nehemiah 9:17, and elsewhere, slow to anger. Heb., 5 long of nostrils, or anger. (1) God is good, therefore repent and come to Him; but(2) just, and therefore cannot connive at sin.J. The reason is manifest; for the proper knowledge of the Christian is such knowledge as the Son, speaking according to His own communion with His Father, communicates to us. the objects of such countless favours, and of such signal honour on God's part. He for giveth iniquity, transgression, and sin. What God is in and o Himself is thus defined: The Lord, the Lord God. The self-existent, self sufficient, all-powerful One. There isn't a God of the Old Testament, and a different God of the New. If it is contended that it was, how is it that only Jews and Christians have arrived at this knowledge of the Divine name? STOOD WITH HIM THE Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. Then Aaron is duly clothed; as in the priestly character Christ appears before God for us. If the true God deigns to give a law to man, it must be an unimpeachably wise and worthy law adapted to the condition of man, as far as a law possibly can be; and such is God's law holy, just, and good. Exodus provides an online help desk and 24/7 customer support to get your questions answered, fast. The first of the firstfruits of the land ( Exodus 34:24-26 ), Notice, "the first of the firstfruits" is what God demands from you, not the leftovers. There is no doubt that it is the goodness and mercy of God; but it is to a people still under the government of the law. 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. He immediately adds, "and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." And The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. Because if you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one calls to you, to eat of his sacrifice; And you take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Even so, in Exodus 34:6, we have the lengthened explanation of the Divine glory; while in 1 John 4 there is the same and substancethe essence of allin the three words, God is Love., (2.) The bread that was set on the golden table consisted of twelve loaves in evident correspondence with the twelve tribes of Israel, but this assuredly in connection with Christ, for He is ever the object of God's counsels. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out God doesn't just say to a person, "Well, that's all right, you're forgiven." Into that wondrous knowledge we are brought by the Son come down here below; and above all by the Holy Ghost, now that Christ is gone up on high For in point of fact, when God was only known as the one God, however true this may be, He could not really be known as He is. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. Not atonement. They, with Aaron to help them, aimed a blow at the throne of God by making a golden calf. Is it not true that there is scarce anything in which we feel more the need of gracious care than in the holy things of God? That will by no means clear the guilty. This inspires us with the confidence that right is the order of the universe. Jehovah loves to surrender to Moses, as of old to Jacob with far feebler forces. were in the first tables, which you broke. 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." His mercy is grace, free grace; this teaches us to be not only pitiful, but courteous, 1 Peter 3:8. The Israelites were elect as a nation according to the sovereign call of Jehovah the known God of their fathers. We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. This section coheres "I will Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. 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. Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. marg. This bespeaks both freeness and kindness; it intimates not only that he has a compassion to his creatures, but a complacency in them and in doing good to them, and this of his own good-will, and not for the sake of any thing in them. 5. What is He doing now? of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. Even the goodness of God must be looked upon by us with a profound veneration and holy awe. "Go in and utterly wipe them out." "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. IN THE CLOUD; in the cloudy pillar, which ordinarily stood up in the Jonah's Use of This Passage. When he gives to some, still he keeps for others, and is never exhausted; he has mercy enough for all the thousands of Israel, when they shall multiply as the sand. The very notion of a king and a kingdom puts the subjects at a greater distance. The people thereon mourn; and Moses has recourse to a remarkable act. The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. Had He dealt on the ground of pure law, how could it have been? Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. It is tragic indeed that really the real victims of divorce are the children. 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. This relative proclamation may be viewed as revealing Gods goodness and Gods justice. The reason is manifest. he had broken (Exodus 32:19), and bring them up Sinai to Jehovah. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. (2.) The habitual means whereby God gives proof that He is right, graciously enabling us to understand is by His word. In the beginning ofExodus 21:1-36; Exodus 21:1-36 we find the type of the servant. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. 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. He will reign as the great King King of kings and Lord of lords, but still as King. 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. Mercy extended to thousands of persons. Next, He proclaims His clemency and mercy; nor is He contented with a single word, but, after having called Himself merciful, He claims the praise of clemency, inasmuch as He has no more peculiar attribute than His goodness and gratuitous beneficence. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. 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. Jehovah however stands to His own ways, and says to Moses, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. "And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the Ten commandments.". You bet your life you would. This sacred glimpse of God's loving mercy lies behind the N.T. WebExodus 34:5 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament When Moses had restored the covenant bond through his intercession ( Exodus 33:14 ), he was Although a revelation of the Divine Being was necessary, yet one so full and gracious was surely the result of the beneficent condescension of God. The cloudy pillar, which had stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting ( Exodus 33:10 ), was withdrawn while Moses ascended Sinai, and probably disappeared from men's sight. After this follow the general institutions of the law, which mainly insist on retribution. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Deuteronomy 10:4_. Slow to anger, Bears long, even when the wrongs of His saints call for His vengeance (Luke 18:7). came into the camp. Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. When Christ went into the presence of God, what a mighty effect did not the Spirit produce! So the LORD said to Moses: God showed amazing patience with His servant Moses. the Lord, ch. The Lord descended By some sensible token of his presence, and He considers that distinct meanings to be attached to the materials, colours, etc., can have no solid foundation, and are " here out of place"! concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His 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. EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 But what I have stated is very suitable, that, lest impunity should beget audaciousness, after God has spoken of His mercy, He adds an exception, viz., that the iniquity is by no means pardoned, which is accompanied by obstinacy. Hearken, says Law, to the melody of this sweet note. STOOD WITH HIM THE Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. They take a mingled system; they mix up law and grace together. The words, therefore, may be properly paraphrased thus: Although God is pitiful and even ready to pardon, yet He does not therefore spare the despisers, but is a severe avenger of their impiety. Surely the scripture describes the days in which we live when it refers to "unnatural affections". WebOutline: I. Moses prepares two stone tablets to take up to Mt. He that hath an ear, let him hear, and know, and believe. Here it seems in substance the same thing as in 1 Peter 1:2. 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. God does not stop here. It is God displaying Himself in Christ; but those who had this connection with Christ were Israel. First, God was dealing with Israel in their responsibility as witnesses of Jehovah, the one true self-existing God, the almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is gracious. And Moses was not able to enter because the cloud dwelt thereon, and the glory filled the tabernacle. Is that the way in which Christ was most glorified? 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. It is not a merely legal way of escaping the dreadful doom that he sees is the just portion of those that despise God. Apologetically. In Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46 is given the prescribed ceremonial in consecrating the priesthood. Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. 1. We must remember that they are but shadows, and not the very image of the thing. 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 Afterwards He proclaims the greatness of His mercy and truth, and on these two supports the confidence of the pious is based, whilst they embrace the mercy offered to them, and securely repose on the faithfulness and certainty of the promises. The whole of the Old Testament pants and throbs with this Divine yearning, and it also shows us the finger of God writing in the heart of man the great preparation for the Gospel. with Moses. I do not mean man as man, but that there was no bar to man. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. (6.) upon the children. 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. Thou shalt make thee no molten images ( Exodus 34:15-17 ). Even then, being still unable, he declined the task, declaring that the more he thought of God, the less was he able to describe Him.(2.) on the first tables, which thou _AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND Why should souls be driven from the truth by prejudice or clamour? 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. For the presence of God with his people Israel in the wilderness: "I pray thee, go among us, for thy presence is all in all to our safety and success." But the fact that the shine was fading away from his face, was indicating the fact that the law that God was given was to fade away when God established the new covenant with man through Jesus Christ. He forgives offences of all sorts--iniquity, transgression, and sin, multiplies his pardons; and with him is plenteous redemption. Mercy entailed upon thousands of generations, even those upon whom the ends of the world have come; nay, the line of it is drawn parallel with that of eternity itself. It is evident that law as such, first of all, has no object to present to man. The consequence of such a division is indeed lowering in the extreme. This is the authorised revelation of the character of God. It has brought saving joy to countless multitudes. It has saving joy for countless yet. The pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. "Exodus" is a Latin word derived from Greek Exodos, the name given to the book by those who translated it into Greek. For our position the true image is Moses not when speaking to the people, but when he goes up into the presence of God. 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