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. 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! usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND He's only protecting the innocent children that He's bringing in to inherit the land, His children. I get so tired of hearing them say, "Well, I just don't love them anymore." Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life. Calvin Soc. WebShemot - Exodus - Chapter 34. No doubt it was connected with the earth, and what was in itself anything but a condition suitable to the mind of God. on the first tables, which thou _AND THE LORD DESCENDED IN THE CLOUD, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, AND He keepeth mercy for thousands. They had been wholly insensible to His ways of grace in leading them out of Egypt to Sinai. But in this chapter, and indeed in the next still more, the people entreat that God's voice should not speak to them any more. The biblical Exodus is central in Judaism. That will by no means clear the guilty. This inspires us with the confidence that right is the order of the universe. What was the meaning of the blood? The Divine name was proclaimed personally. [2.] 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. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. air above the mount, but came down to the top of it when God spake For our position the true image is Moses not when speaking to the people, but when he goes up into the presence of God. were in the first tables, which you broke. 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. WebExodus 34:1-4 The second promulgation of the moral law, by the renewal of the two tables may teach us I. You bet your life you would. Now we are here told. He underwent death to the law by the body of Christ that he should belong to another Him that was raised from the dead in order that we should bear fruit to God. 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.) Now there are people who try to say that there is a God of the Old Testament, and a God of the New Testament. You can enter into a totally new, beautiful life in Christ, and only He can erase the psychic scars that so damaged some of you from your childhood and the things that you experienced in childhood. 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. clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. Exodus 34:5_ Now observe. Of these the highest is the ark. And so surely tremendous declarations of God's grace, God's mercy, God's forgiveness, God's goodness, God's truth. 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! His making a cloud his pavilion intimated that, though he made known much of himself, yet there was much more concealed. "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature and the old things are passed away, and every thing becomes new"( 1 Corinthians 5:13 ). _I will write upon these tables. 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.) If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. 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. So the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and in all the people among whom thou [shalt, among whom thou] art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome [The word terrible is an old English word, should be translated "awesome"] thing that I will do with thee. The Exodus is the central event of the Old Where the faultless picture of a servant but in Him? Simonides the philosopher, being requested to describe God, asked a week to think of it. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. 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. lest I consume thee in the way." THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. And the Holy Ghost completes this wonderful circle of divine intimacy. CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD Moses desired to see the _glory_ of "And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou has spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by thy name." 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. 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. He gave a sample of it before He went up on high. How blessed for us! And what was the object of the priesthood? Exodus /. They take a mingled system; they mix up law and grace together. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. It was necessary, therefore, that the people should know something definite about the Being to whom they were thus intimately related and whom they professed to serve. 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. "Thousands "; "Lovingkindness for thousands " Thousands of what? We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. lest I consume thee in the way." Does not He mean what He says? We have a figure to which the apostle refers (2 Corinthians 3:1-18), confirming what has just now been stated. Jonah's Use of This Passage. In these shadows* we may see two very different characters or classes, we may say, into which they are divisible. This was the second proclamation. As He will never cease to be God, He will never cease to be man. 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. Filled with joyful boldness, he turns the very fact of Israels stiff-neckedness into a plea for the presence and favour of God. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ): Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". Take a case in illustration. The refusal of forgiveness is for the unrepentant. 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. But then the fruits of the Spirit can never be attained by the law; nor are they even contemplated by a legal measure. Deuteronomy 10:4_. Is that the way in which Christ was most glorified? fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: My soul, be ready in the 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 mount, and on which the Lord now descended in it, as he had before, Exodus 19:9: and stood with him there; not Moses stood with the Lord, as the Vulgate Latin version; but the Lord, or the cloud in which the Lord was, stood near to Moses: and proclaimed the name of the Lord: Jehovah declared with a loud voice out of the cloud, that the Lord was there; the Targum of Jonathan is, "and Moses called on or in the name of the Word of the Lord;''. Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). TRANSLATION (1-4) II. Though the account is brief, Moses was with God on the mountain for about six weeks, as on the previous occasion (27-28; cf. 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. But is it a fact that the church at Jerusalem had the deepest enjoyment of God in apostolic times? When Moses reached the top, it descended once more from the sky, and stood with him there. (1.) (vs.1-28) This was delivered for the Jewish nation and the world. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. It was the state in which the children of Israel were put here, and was a very great mercy for them in a certain sense. When the earliest phase of things passed away when not merely there was the unbelief of the Jewish people but the unworthy sights and sounds which Satan introduced among that fair company God, always equal to the occasion, acts in the supremacy of His own grace, and brings out a deeper understanding of His truth more difficult to appreciate; not striking the people of the world perhaps in the same way, but that which I think has a more intimate character of communion with Christ Himself than anything that was found before. In Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46 is given the prescribed ceremonial in consecrating the priesthood. When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. We must remember that they are but shadows, and not the very image of the thing. 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. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." Unless Jesus Christ comes into their life, unless there comes that change through the power of the gospel, they follow the role model and it goes down from generation to generation to generation. 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. 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." God doesn't just say to a person, "Well, that's all right, you're forgiven." The new vision and commission. This I maintain to be peculiar to Christianity in all its fulness. Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus EXODUS 34:1 J. "He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." How big is your God? WebExodus 34:5 The Lord descended in the cloud. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never Key Chapters (Ex 1214)The climax of the entire Old Testament is recorded in Exodus 1214: the salvation of Israel through blood (the Passover) and through power (the Red Sea). He is the servant of His own choice for ever. Then trust that what He is now doing is for your good.iii. It is Christ put on us. They have-it's just hid and suppressed and lying dormant underneath there.So it is true, it is tragically true that often the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. At the same time the righteousness of the law is fulfilled so much the more in those that "walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.". WebExodus 34:57 GODS WORD Translation (GW) 5 The Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him and called out his name the Lord.. "Well, we'll see if we have enough left for ourselves, and if we have enough we'll give it to God." 5. Unbelievers fight shy of it, and take certain doings or commands wrested from their context, and without examination as to the reason why. 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. Now we must always bear in mind that, though in the Christian walking aright the righteousness of the law will surely be fulfilled, never has Christianity either a legal principle or a legal character: not a legal principle because it flows from the known grace of God to the soul; not a legal character because it is consistency with Christ risen from the dead, not merely with the Ten Command meets. 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. 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