II. "And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come nigh, neither shall the people go up with him." 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 ). Jehovah directs the attention of Moses to the camp, saying, "I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. For what was presented there? 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. But after the form of hallowing the priests, the Spirit prescribes in the end of Exodus 39:1-43 (ver. *Dr. Fairbairn's "Typology" is here, as in general, poverty itself. He proclaimed the name of the Lord, by which he would make himself known. That the God with whom we have to do is a great God. The legal ordinances and institutes were but shadows; still they were types distinctly constituted; and we should learn by them all. 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. The nature also of His goodness and clemency is specified, viz., that He is not only placable, and ready, and disposed, to pardon, but that He patiently waits for those who have sinned, and invites them to repentance by His long-suffering. came into the camp. The habitual means whereby God gives proof that He is right, graciously enabling us to understand is by His word. 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. The Lord descended By some sensible token of his presence, and usually was hidden, AND STOOD WITH HIM THERE, outside the cloud, AND WebWilliam Nicoll Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 34:1-35. marg. promises unless we make conscie Exodus 34:1. Truth. It is based upon the Divine immutability; He cannot deny Himself. Universal; keeping mercy for thousands; universal as regards space, universal as regards time. That is so absolutely sick I can't even think of it. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; 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. Now this mingling of grace with the law is the kind of system which Christians have accepted as Christianity. THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT And it seems well to remark it, because it is of considerable practical and also doctrinal importance, contrasting as it does the place of the Christian with that of the Jew. You've passed by me, declared Your name, now Lord go ahead and pass among the people, pardon their sin; and take us for Your inheritance." This expression, indeed, frequently occurs with reference to prayers. 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 2 Corinthians 3:7-18). Web1. and, as it would seem, disappeared. We may know and ought to judge what is passing in the world, though it be through an imperfect medium; but we know heaven and heavenly things from God. For the Christian it is not so. No real believer ever takes the ground of pure law. We ought to know heaven better than the earth. Nevertheless Moses persists in his plea with Jehovah, who does not fail to try him to the utmost by adopting the language of the people. He accordingly drew near into the thick darkness; for so God dealt with Israel as a people in the flesh. A few words on the law may be well here. 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. CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. As people are arguing about God, God is "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah." And be ready in the descended Exodus 19:18 Exodus 33:9 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 1 Kings "Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. Grace covers through the expiation of Christ, as it flows in virtue of God's work and in maintaining God's order. These verses, as Stock says, show that the revelation of God was not merely to the outward sight, but chiefly to the heart and mind of Moses. Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus EXODUS 34:1 J. But at any rate His goodness is caused to pass before him, which in Exodus 34:1-35 he sees. In addition to atonement, these are the two urgent wants of fallen humanity. But there was another requisite next set forth. Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. We have the position of sons, a relationship which the Lord Jesus had in all its perfection, and in an infinitely higher sense, in which no creature can share it along with Him. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation." He had to put a veil on his face. 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. Then we have the holy anointing oil, which also had to do with fitting the priests for drawing near to God. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; [Leaven is a type of sin.] We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that 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. 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. proclaimed the name of the LORD. God does not stop here. Some (383) thus explain it, That God pardons sins, because no one is innocent in His sight; as if it were said, that all are destitute of the glory of righteousness, and thence their only refuge is in the mercy of God. The understanding of this comes in the antithesis in the word "generation" at the end of Exodus 34:7. The reason is manifest. 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. He may justly do it, for all souls are his, and there is a malignity in sin that taints the blood. 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. And so one might go through every quality and every office, and find them only in perfection in our Lord Jesus. (vs.1-28) The guilty may be spared so that they may repent, but they will not be cleared. 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? Comp. God expounds eleven attributes: YHWH, El, the Merciful One, the Gracious One, the Longsuffering One, the Mighty One, the Kind and Loving One, the True One, the One who Preserves Kindness, the Forgiving One, and the Chastising One. This 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. *Dr. Fairbairn views Christ's whole undertaking as symbolized already in the furniture and services of the Most Holy Place, and therefore considers the things belonging to the Holy Place as directly referring only to the works and services of His people. It's just plain sick. 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 5. 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. Very often it is not so little a while, as many of us know to our cost. (380) A.V., Will by no means clear; S. M. and C., Not making (the guilty) innocent; or, in C.s own comment, He will not with cleansing cleanse; but C. presently acknowledges that it might be taken to mean, He will not utterly cut off, inasmuch as the verb is sometimes used for to blot out, to destroy, to exterminate; to which class of meanings more than one lexicographer has assigned its use in this text. 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. But it is generally and chiefly a means of health, filled with beautiful sounds, fragrant with sweetest odours, the pathway of sunbeams, the source of sparkling dew, the parent of harvests and fountain of earthly life. The And, (3.) He forgives offences of all sorts--iniquity, transgression, and sin, multiplies his pardons; and with him is plenteous redemption. concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His God himself is the So I would be thoroughly justified in killing that dog so that it would not infect the innocent children and destroy them. There indeed is the truth. What a motive for parents! In the last 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 the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Again, in these various figures or institutions of good things to come, the Sabbath re-appears. 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. Does not He mean what He says? But it is as far as possible from the truth that "the discipline of the law comes in to supply the deficiencies of the Spirit, and curb the still remaining tendencies to sin. Encouraged by this revelation Moses requested again (cf. What man or institution has these qualities? 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. 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.) He delivered up His own Son for you because He prizes you that much. I speak of our relationship and title. This relative proclamation may be viewed as revealing Gods goodness and Gods justice. Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! Thus, it means thousands of generations! The thought may sometimes rise, that mercy visits but a favoured few, that the rare gift enriches but rare souls. It is not to be allowed that God's word makes mistakes: man does, but is it with the Spirit of God? went in before Jehovah] viz. He prized you so highly that He sent His Son to die for your sins so that He could have you for His own. But the written word of God is the sole instrumental means and the revelation of it all. This is here called "sanctification of the Spirit." The last of these types is the holy perfume. True, God is revealed there (Romans 1:20); but the key is wanted to decipher the hieroglyphics, and that key is the Scriptures which are given by inspiration of God.. 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. And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. In addition, He is the eternal Creator, Healer, Savior, Judge, and the very pinnacle of wisdom, understanding, and They were a people in the flesh. All this was plain, but in the tabernacle we have more than this. First of all, the name of Jehovah is uttered twice by way of emphasis, in order that Moses might be rendered more attentive. What God is in and o Himself is thus defined: The Lord, the Lord God. The self-existent, self sufficient, all-powerful One. 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. Faith, hope, and charity abounded in the mediator; and if the people were to be blessed, from God he drew on every spring of the blessing for His own glory. Men look at their fallen brothers through their sin; but God looks at man through the idealised [sic] life, with a love that imputes to him every virtue for Christs sake." 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory Against the fruits of the Spirit there is no law, as the apostle so emphatically says to the Galatians. This bespeaks plentiful goodness, goodness abounding above our deserts, above our conception and expression. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. God is oftentimes faulted. But if it isn't there, then it'll go on and it passes from generation to generation.You'll find that in your psychology and in your sociological studies that the-that a person gets his role for parenthood from his parents. 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. Woes and wonders were their sublimest ideal of God.(3.) 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." This is the brightest jewel of His crownovertopping the heavens, outliving all times, outshining all perfections. "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. In none of these types can one find the full truth of Christ and of His work. So that they would not see the fading away of the old covenant, his face was veiled.But Paul goes on to say, "But even today their faces are still veiled when it comes to the word of God." "Therefore, Lord, do thou go among us, else they will never be kept in awe. So Moses hewed out the two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 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! He ordered that there should be the Urim and the Thummim connected with the high priest's breastplate; that is the means of divine guidance for the people. You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." He sternly warned his people against copying, or even tolerating, heathen religious practices in their new land. There cannot be a more striking illustration of the truth that Christ is the continual object of the Holy Ghost than that, even in these temporary ordinances, God cannot refrain from looking onward to His Son. God having thus proclaimed his name, Moses says, "It is enough, I expect no more till I come to heaven;" at least he did not think fit to relate what he saw. He's only protecting the innocent children that He's bringing in to inherit the land, His children. This section coheres 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. Moses intercedes for the people the fourth time (8-9) IV. The tendency of some to insist on the whole in an instant is a reaction from the popular unbelief, which, if it allow peace at all, allows it as a matter of slow, laborious and uncertain attainment. We are children, members of the family of God. Because what he is doing is psychologically destroying that daughter of his.There are so many of the young girls who come in with tremendous problems of adjusting to life because of the stupidity of their dads. (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 the veil still over their eyes, not being able to behold the truth of Jesus Christ. In the latter part of the chapter we have clearly the legal glory. Abundant; to Gods goodness there is no limit. It would be a glorious thing that three times a year all the men in the nation would have to come and stand before God in this time of worship and so forth. Thus he avails himself of the special affection God had shown him to put himself with the people, and to secure God's presence going with the people, who otherwise could never enter the land. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never that pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had It is no less a misfortune for the Christian, because what those in Christ are called to is neither law, nor the mingled system of law interspersed with the gracious care of those under it (who must have been consumed had law reigned alone), but pure grace in Christ without the law. 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. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the ten commandments ( Exodus 34:26-28 ). Moses loved Israel with a love stronger than death; yet he who thus loved them showed unsparingly his horror of the leprosy that had broken out among them. Is it not His grace shown in man, even in the man Christ Jesus? 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. It would not be suitable to such a position that there should be undue familiarity. In the New Testament we have a God of judgment and wrath revealed to us. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 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. (2.) Everywhere, therefore, in the Psalms, where mention is made of Gods goodness, His truth is connected with it as its inseparable companion. So they are going to destroy themselves. 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