"But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." It may be ever so minute, but there is habitually a dealing of Christ between the touch that stays the issue and the word which declares with no less authority than love, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." Some seem on the very verge of denying it altogether, in their one-sided zeal for the grace of God; others who stand stoutly and so far well for the responsibility of man misuse this truth so as apparently to swamp God's grace. It is false that the law is dead. And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and In the New Testament we have a God of judgment and wrath revealed to us. Poor people! For they who despised Moses' law were put to death in the mouth of two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he could be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and who hath counted the blood of His covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace? Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). The childs primer on geography is a very different thing from that which the child has in mature school-days. Now three times in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel ( Exodus 34:22-23 ). He for giveth iniquity, transgression, and sin. As the foolishness of God, says the apostle, is wiser than man, so (may we not say?) Exodus 34:1 He belonged to God automatically. IN THE CLOUD; in the cloudy pillar, which ordinarily stood up in the And what was the object of the priesthood? (1-4) II. The Lord descended By some sensible token of his presence, and The Holy Ghost is the only power for rightly using, and applying, and enjoying the truth; and therefore He is called "the truth" no less than the Lord Jesus. The consequence of such a division is indeed lowering in the extreme. It may be looked at in its general and historical bearing, more abstractly as a moral test. Thousands have found mercy; but there are stores for thousands yet.(2.) came into the camp. No doubt it was connected with the earth, and what was in itself anything but a condition suitable to the mind of God. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ. He had to put a veil on his face. Another reason also is because Gods mercy cannot be comprehended, except upon the testimony of His word, the certainty of which must needs be well assured lest our salvation should be wavering and insecure. But what immediately follows must necessarily be referred to God, when He passed by, to cry out and to dignify Himself with His true titles. Those who reason from Israel to us, without intending it, ignore the relationship of the Christian, and set aside the bearing of redemption on our walk: so serious is that error which to many seems a pious thought, and I am sure taken up by them with the desire of honouring God and His will. ". The understanding of this comes in the antithesis in the word "generation" at the end of Exodus 34:7. What follows, that God keeps mercy to a thousand generations, we have expounded in chapter 20; whilst, on the other hand, the punishments which He requires for mens sins are only extended to the third and fourth generation, because His clemency surpasses His judgment, as is said in Psalms 30:5, (379) There is only a moment in his anger, but life in his favor; and although this only relates properly to believers, yet it flows from a general principle. This is put first, because it is the first wheel in all the instances of God's good-will to fallen man, whose misery makes him an object of pity, Judges 10:16; Isaiah 63:9. the Lord, ch. 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. Moses had not asked for a renewal of the tables. THE FULFILMENT BY GOD OF HIS PROMISE TO MOSES. If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. We are children, members of the family of God. The ark, the golden table, the golden candlestick, the tabernacle with its curtains, the veil, the brazen altar, and the court, form the first division of the types, the common object of them all being the display of God in Christ to man. Some read it so as to express a mitigation of wrath, even when he does punish: When he empties, he will not make quite desolate; that is, "He does not proceed to the greatest extremity, till there be no remedy." 6 Then he passed in front of Moses, calling out, The Lord, the Lord, a compassionate and merciful God, patient, always faithful and ready to forgive. Very simple are the words and expressions; but how detailed. The reason is that He would impress on His people that all His dealings, varied as they may be, are intended to keep before their minds that rest to which He was steadily working, and into which He means to bring His own in due time. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. But we may refer toExodus 35:1-35; Exodus 35:1-35 as the witness to the zeal of the congregation for the construction and service of the sanctuary, opened by the law of the sabbath stated here for the last time in the book. 2. It was now a question of a nation, and not of individuals merely, thus governed of one nation in the midst of many which were to behold in it the consequences of fidelity or the lack of it toward the law of Jehovah. Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus EXODUS 34:1 J. 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. 3. Jehovah however stands to His own ways, and says to Moses, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. The name of the God of the Jews, who is also the God of the Christians, is The Lord God, merciful and gracious., Most glorious art Thou! that pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had But Moses had never had a full and wonderful view of the Mercy and Truth therein; therefore he here obtains a glimpse into the Divine treasury, with its boundless, inexhaustible stores of mercymercy ready to meet and satisfy the demands of justice.(2.) Pressense says, that whatever opinions men may hold as to the integrity of that primitive witness, all must own that it contains pages in which one beholds, as it were, the reflection of the lustre which caused Mosess face to shine when he held converse with God. But there is now an intimacy of acquaintance with the God and Father of the Lord Jesus which none on earth can ever know as a Christian ought to know it. WebEnglish Standard Version. In June, fifty days after Passover, after seven weeks after Passover, then the next day began-seven weeks would be forty-nine days. This is the authorised revelation of the character of God. 5. It is remarkable that on this occasion the tabernacle and all within it were anointed with oil. So the veil still over their eyes, not being able to behold the truth of Jesus Christ. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND CHAPTER XXXIV. WebExodus 34:7. Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. Everywhere, therefore, in the Psalms, where mention is made of Gods goodness, His truth is connected with it as its inseparable companion. 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. ", At once we find him reproaching Aaron, the most responsible man there, who makes a sorry excuse, not without sin. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. There is hardly a subject on which men are so apt to make mistakes as the true nature and application of love. 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. THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD. Thus, it means thousands of generations! It is the display of God in both cases the one in the presence of God where He manifests Himself; the other in dealing with man and his wants in this world. By the physical law of heredity. He would now obey, because he has the new nature through receiving the name of the Lord Jesus, and would enter into the grace of God that sprinkles the guilty with the blood of Jesus. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. They may prosper for the time, but a heavy retribution awaits them. When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. "The first of the firstfruits of thy land.". Thus he who rejected every overture for his own advancement at the expense of the people now arms the Levites against their brethren. Key Verses (Ex 6:6; Ex 19:56). Under this falls the Christian testimony now, as the result of the entrance of Christ into heavenly places; and under this will fall the future fruit-bearing portion and testimony of Israel in the day when Christ will appear in glory from the heavens. As the sun abounds in sparkling rays, the sea in drops, the sky in glittering orbs; so God is one vast treasure-house of mercy. Certain. Grace binds us with Christ as Aaron with his sons. 8. That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly. Even the force of the silver redemption-money he thinks disproved by the fact that the sockets of the door were made of brass. First, they were all washed in the water, Aaron and his sons. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin -; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.". There was no such effect when it was merely the ten commandments or the ordinances connected with the people and the land; but after the communications of heavenly shadows and the mercy of God which intermixed itself with the law, Moses' face shines, and the people of Israel could not bear it. I cannot understand it, don't ask me to explain it.Here is the place where I, as a devout Jew, though I am not a Jew, but as a devout Jew who's just comes to that place where he bows his head and says nothing, when I think of how God has placed such a high value on my life. As Law says, this heart is mercy. A few words on the law may be well here. No way. But sincerity will not serve in lieu of His word; and our own thoughts and desires can never be trusted as a standard of principle or of practice. As we read it, we must expound it that he will by no means connive at the guilty, as if he took no notice of their sin. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. This is prefixed before the display of his mercy, to teach us to think and to speak even of God's grace and goodness with great seriousness and a holy awe, and to encourage us to depend upon these mercies; they are not the mercies of a man, that is frail and feeble, false and fickle, but the mercies of the Lord, the Lord God; therefore sure mercies, and sovereign mercies, mercies that may be trusted, but not tempted. Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! But the difficulty is this, that man being a sinner is as far as possible from ability to meet God's law; for how indeed can there be any real stable bond between a bad man and a good law? Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. You bet your life you would. 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. More manifestly we shall be heavenly at the coming of Christ, but not more really than at present. They, with Aaron to help them, aimed a blow at the throne of God by making a golden calf. Of them He came, and He deigned to have the memorial of them on this table before God. It is a fountain that ever flows and is never exhausted (Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 3:21; Philippians 4:19). Law-Lights! Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. Take a case in illustration. 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. Slow to anger, Bears long, even when the wrongs of His saints call for His vengeance (Luke 18:7). But besides, when the high priest went into Jehovah's presence, there was the sounding of the bells between the pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet on the skirts of his garment. Much of what is boastfully called natural theology, and the revelation of God in the universe, are but facts read into nature from the Bible and by Bible men. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. WebExodus 34:1 :: Darby Translation (DBY) Exodus 34:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were upon the first tables, which thou hast broken. 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 ). 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. The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. Besides this their names were written on the breastplate. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. Accordingly they were severed by the ordinance of circumcision and other rites. The veil is rent; and we walk in the light as He is in the light. _I will write upon these tables. 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 ). "He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." 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. 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? Without it the guilty people never could have been spared, but must have perished root and branch, as it was in consequence of this change that a new generation of the people of Israel entered into the land at all. He is abundant in goodness and truth. His making a cloud his pavilion intimated that, though he made known much of himself, yet there was much more concealed. He was a sinner, and nothing else. Exo 33:18-19 _The Lord descended_ By some sensible token of his presence, and The next day, the fiftieth day would begin the Passover, which was the first fruits of the winter, wheat harvest, as they began to harvest it there in Israel in the first part of June. The descent of God, which is here recorded, indicates no change of place, as if God, who fills heaven and earth, and whose immensity is universally diffused, altered His position, but it has reference to the perceptions of men, because under the appearance of the cloud God testified that He met Moses. In short therefore the children of Israel stood on the ground of man in the flesh; and man in the flesh, as he is a sinful being, can neither deny nor accomplish his obligation to do the will of God. THE TEXT OF EXODUS Not an inference from the phenomena of nature. 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 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.) 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. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that 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. Simonides the philosopher, being requested to describe God, asked a week to think of it. Exodus 30:1-38; Exodus 30:1-38 resumes the account, for a reason already explained, of the various vessels of the sanctuary which had to follow the priesthood, and pursue the truth meant by it, namely, the means of access to God. WebOutline: I. Moses prepares two stone tablets to take up to Mt. Deuteronomy 10:4_. The result soon appears in their ruin; but Jehovah shows that He knew from the first, before any result appeared, their inability to stand before Him: "Lo," says He to Moses, "I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever." 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? Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. That as His goodness is based upon His power man must not presume.(2.) 1 And the Lord said to Moses: "Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The LORD, the God descends the mountain and describes Himself to Moses (5-7) III. They would place these in the fire and heat them until they became- until the iron became red hot. WebWilliam Nicoll Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 34:1-35. But, argues Moses, for this very reason, we most of all want Jehovah's presence. The new vision and commission. manifestation of his glory. Then Aaron is duly clothed; as in the priestly character Christ appears before God for us. It is not thus that the believer, even if a Jew and therefore under law, was withdrawn from its condemning power. With this goes also the action of the Spirit of God in dealing with us day by day according to such a beginning. The Lord descended in the cloud. Long-suffering; as also in Numbers 14:18, and Psalms 86:15. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His upon the children. That he is a good God. Very often it is not so little a while, as many of us know to our cost. *Dr. Fairbairn's "Typology" is here, as in general, poverty itself. And perhaps Jeremiah alluded to this passage, where (382) he mitigates the severity of the vengeance of which he had been speaking by this same expression, for there it can only be translated, With cutting off I will not cut thee off. If this be preferred, it will be the assignment of the reason why God pardons sins, viz., because He is unwilling to cut off men, which would be the case if He insisted on the utmost rigor of the Law. first Table. 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.) His humble reverence and adoration of God's glory, giving him the honour due to that name he had thus proclaimed. 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. WebExodus 34:79. 3. The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel. No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. It bespeaks promised goodness, goodness and truth put together, goodness engaged by promise, and his faithfulness pledged for the security of it. 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. The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and 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. 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. The apostle uses this to show that, as the veiled Moses speaking to the people of Israel is the most apt possible figure of the actual state in which they were placed (that is, not law simply, but with gracious care for the people mingled with it), so the condition of the Christian is in marked contrast. _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's The springs of mercy are always full, the streams of mercy always flowing; there is mercy enough in God, enough for all, enough for each, enough for ever. Accordingly we may regard the law as a whole, consisting not only of moral claims but of national institutes, ordinances, statutes, and judgment) under which Israel were put. 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." He describes the Christian in terms which at once recallExodus 24:1-18; Exodus 24:1-18. Then trust that what He is now doing is for your good.iii. (H8691) proclaimed H7121 (H8799) name Exodus 34:5 , EXODUS 34:29 We know Him better than even His earthly people will know Him by and by. The Lord told him that no man could see His face and live. usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like (6.) (3.) It is a great mistake to suppose that the proclamation of divine goodness in this scene is the gospel. Who does not know that this was to secure the people always being acceptable before God! WebJohn Gill's Exposition of the Bible /. (2.) At the end of the verse, to call in the name of the Lord, is equivalent to proclaiming His name, or promulgating what God would make known to His servant. They are one in the same God. That as His power supports His goodness man need not despond.2. 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. We know from our Lord Jesus its moral summary and essence the love of God, and the love of man. He that hath an ear, let him hear, and know, and believe. 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. For I will cast out the nations before thee, enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year. To the sinner. WebExodus 34:1 Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets Their conduct proved that His grace had not at all entered into their hearts. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; Then we have the veil and screen. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." This is not the time to enter into details; but hear what Moses says to Jehovah now: "See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. 5. 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. CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY Exodus Bitcoin & Crypto Wallet Manage and exchange 260+ cryptos and NFTs on your web browser, mobile, desktop, and hardware wallets Watch Video Get Exodus Now Buy Crypto directly with USD, EUR, and GBP On ramp to 25+ cryptocurrencies using your credit/debit card, bank account or Apple Pay within Exodus mobile Learn More About Fiat On-Ramp This was delivered for the Jewish nation and the world. 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. They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. Perhaps this satisfied him, and he desired no more; as we read not that Thomas did thrust his hand into Christ's side, though Christ invited him to do it. 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. 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. He keepeth mercy for thousands. "And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. Thus solemnly did Jehovah mark His dwelling-place in the midst of His people redeemed from Egypt; and He deigned to guide their journeys through the desert also by the same sign; for when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; and if not taken up, they abode till it was. What was the meaning of the blood? regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. Thus it is evident that, no matter what the subject may be, the Sabbath has always a place assigned to it. 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. Once more the Divine justice operates through natural laws, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, &c. How? Stretches out His hand all the day long, and waits to be gracious. How forcibly does the history of Israel, and indeed of every individual life, bear witness to this!
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