pillar of cloud which had hitherto gone before Israel, and had th 1 The Tables are renued. Exodus 1 The Israelites Multiply in Egypt ( Genesis 46:727) 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. STOOD WITH HIM THE Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. 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.) That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly. 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. WebWilliam Nicoll Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 34:1-35. 1. Let us not then have either hard thoughts of God or hard hearts towards our brethren. But then the fruits of the Spirit can never be attained by the law; nor are they even contemplated by a legal measure. of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of It was not merely a new nature or a new position, but it was a corresponding power of the Spirit of God. God doesn't just say to a person, "Well, that's all right, you're forgiven." It's tragic but there are so much pressures, so many pressures being placed upon the home today. 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. (4.) Thus he who rejected every overture for his own advancement at the expense of the people now arms the Levites against their brethren. "I will 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. In the candlestick another truth comes before us. Exo 33:18-19 _The Lord descended_ By some sensible token of his presence, and Exodus 1960 Approved 3 h 28 m IMDb RATING 6.7 /10 10K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:48 1 Video 49 Photos Action Drama War The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? "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." Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. In the greater part of the ten commandments, in short, it was not "Thou shalt," but "Thou shalt not." They were a people in the flesh. The last two verses are, I think, transitional. What were they doing at the high places? 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." Translations for Exodus 34:1. He describes the Christian in terms which at once recallExodus 24:1-18; Exodus 24:1-18. What impression it made upon him: Moses made haste, and bowed his head,Exodus 34:8; Exodus 34:8. THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Law is essentially incapable of helping, because being only a claim on God's part, and a definition of His demands, it can only condemn him whose condition makes due obedience impossible. Active; forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.. The word continent requires sentence after sentence of explanation to the child-mind; but when the child has become the youthful student, three words suffice to explain the same. (5.) manifestation of his glory. Jonah sees 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. No one would really fault me for it because they know a rabid dog is gonna die anyhow.You've got the same thing, only it isn't a dog, it's people and they've got a deadly infection in their whole religious system. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was Take a case in illustration. As the foolishness of God, says the apostle, is wiser than man, so (may we not say?) And when Aaron and all of the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to come near him. 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." Hence we find, for instance, the righteousness of God in Romans. For what was presented there? By these words, therefore, His eternity and boundless power are expressed. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). Next (versesExodus 26:15-30; Exodus 26:15-30) follows the account of the acacia boards with their tenons and bolts, the sockets of silver and the rings of gold. Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. Exodus 34:5. "Well, we'll see if we have enough left for ourselves, and if we have enough we'll give it to God." And when their child is born, it is born with an addiction to drugs. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION This section coheres He for giveth iniquity, transgression, and sin. promises unless we make conscie Exodus 34:1. Abundant; to Gods goodness there is no limit. WebExodus 34:5-7New International Version. 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. What improvement he made of it. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was How God proclaimed his name (Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7): he did it in transitu--as he passed by him. 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." Forgiveness is for the repentant. It would make us feel what ought to be done, but gives not of itself the power to do it. He gave a sample of it before He went up on high. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ The Israelites were elect as a nation according to the sovereign call of Jehovah the known God of their fathers. Is that the way in which Christ was most glorified? Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. All of the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Woes and wonders were their sublimest ideal of God.(3.) 3. It is true He was born King of the Jews, and He never can cease to be really so; but it is not so that we know Him. Does not He mean what He says? And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. "Yea," says Moses, "the rather go along with us; for the worse they are the more need they have of thy presence and grace to make them better." out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Abisamach, of the tribe of Dan. But in every soul there is the absolute separation of the Holy Spirit from conversion. That he is a just and holy God. "Oh no," says Moses, "they are Thine; and Thou art their only hope." "Therefore, Lord, do thou go among us, else they will never be kept in awe. Covenant renewed: Make no covenant with the peoples of God would guard His people from an outrage in comeliness, were it even about a dumb or dead animal; as Satan triumphs in all that is abnormal and unnatural in the superstitions which usurp the place of the truth, and are bound up with idolatry. This proclamation is of valuei. preacher, and God himself in his covenant engagements is the "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out As far as this figure is concerned, then, our place is represented by Moses when he takes off the vail and is face to face with the glory of God Himself. This was the first full revelation, the last is like unto it. God is love, and they are enough for faith and hope and work Notice, 1. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them He could not look upon the face of God; but when the Lord had passed by then he could behold and delight in the shaded vision of Jehovahs back parts. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. For pardon of sin: "O pardon our iniquity and our sin, else we cannot expect thee to go among us." Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. It's just plain sick. He wanted to prove and manifest the heart of His servant. Nobody doubts the good intentions of such as interpret it thus; but these are not enough with the word of God. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." From this moment a new plea is urged: the faultiness of the people is used as a reason why God should go up the very reason which righteousness made a ground for refusing to go with them, lest His anger should burn against such a stiff-necked people. The brazen laver judged sin by the word of God, just as the brazen altar judged it sacrificially. Hence, as duty is ever measured by responsibility, that of the Christian is according to the place in which grace has put him. CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. Assuredly Moses in the tabernacle outside had not less love for the people, nor more loyalty to God, than within the borders of Sinai when the ten commandments were uttered. ], Moses response to Gods gracious revelation was submission and worship (Exodus 34:8). 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.". WebPeter Pett's Commentary on the Bible. WebExodus 34:5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. As long as this was the case only, man could not come to God. Exodus 40:17), with all its parts and vessels in due order; secondly, the obedience of Moses according to all that Jehovah commanded him. 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. After that, he besought a month; then a year. Also specifically mentioned was the obligation to keep the weekly Sabbath and the annual festivals (21-24; see 23:12-17). At the end of these communications a call is given Moses to come up to Jehovah. He is long-suffering. Where will one find what man should be but in Christ? People only read in it what they want to read, but in reality He is revealed in both Testaments as gracious, and loving and kind, and merciful, and forgiving and in both Testaments as a God of judgment and wrath, by no means clearing the guilty; that is, without there being repentance. After this follow two things worthy of all heed, a nearness of communication between Jehovah and His servant never enjoyed before, and more than that, a blessing secured to the people never vouchsafed before. This bespeaks plentiful goodness, goodness abounding above our deserts, above our conception and expression. Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.. They stood in their own strength to obey the law of God, as ignorant of their impotence or of His holy majesty. He reproaches them once more with being a stiff-necked people; He will not go up in the midst of them, lest He should consume them in the way. 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. It bespeaks promised goodness, goodness and truth put together, goodness engaged by promise, and his faithfulness pledged for the security of it. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; He is not only good to Israel, but good to all; let all take notice of it. Yahweh Makes A Proclamation Concerning Himself To His People's Representative (Exodus 34:5). That will by no means clear the guilty. This inspires us with the confidence that right is the order of the universe. revelation that "God is love." Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth _v._2) _with him there, and_ "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." So Moses requested that he might see the glory of Yaweh. What he is saying is, "If you only knew how much God valued you. 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. 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. Yet the Bible declares, Paul the apostle prayed for the Ephesians that they might know what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints. He belonged to God automatically. Psalms 113:6, Lord, what is man, that he should be thus visited? Once more the Divine justice operates through natural laws, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, &c. How? It has brought saving joy to countless multitudes. WebExodus 34:5-7. 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. Had He not done so, we should not have had duly raised the solemn question of man's competence to take the ground of his own fidelity before God. This warning was particularly appropriate in view of recent events in the worship of the golden idol. We have what answers to it. It should seem as if Moses accepted this as a sufficient answer to his request that God would show him his glory; for we read not that he went into the cleft of the rock, whence to gain a sight of God's back parts. 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 disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. That would be absolutely glorious. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. All these, I have no doubt, have their own proper significance, as manifesting the character of Christ here below. 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. the Lord, ch. fulfill three conditions: (1) _Earliness_: My soul, be ready in the The conditions are the same as before. He uses all the personal confidence that God had in him on behalf of the people. They had been wholly insensible to His ways of grace in leading them out of Egypt to Sinai. So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. IN THE CLOUD; in the cloudy pillar, which ordinarily stood up in the Even the goodness of God must be looked upon by us with a profound veneration and holy awe. Jehovah however stands to His own ways, and says to Moses, "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Scripture is positive that the veil is His flesh, but then it is as manifesting the Lord as man here below. THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT Had He dealt on the ground of pure law, how could it have been? The last of these types is the holy perfume. 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. Oh how glorious it is that we can come to Jesus Christ and receive that beautiful work of His Holy Spirit and He can absolutely cleanse, and clear. 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. No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. That is, it was a prohibition of man's will. But the same Moses returns to Jehovah with the confession "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. He is the servant of His own choice for ever. 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. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. In the brazen altar it is the same side of truth, but there is this characteristic difference. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD Moses desired to see the _glory_ of It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. (1.) "Thousands "; "Lovingkindness for thousands " Thousands of what? (1.) WebExodus 34:79. It is an inexcusable error, however, to suppose that God will finally accommodate to human wickedness. Lest, however, this indulgence should be perverted into a license for sin, it is afterwards added, by way of correction, with (380) cleansing He will not cleanse, which, with the Chaldee interpreter and others, I understand as applying to His severe judgment against the reprobate and obstinate; for I do not like their opinion who say that, although God indeed pardons sins, yet He still moderately chastises those who have sinned; since this is a poor conjecture, that punishment is required though the guilt is remitted; and besides, it is altogether untrue, inasmuch as it is manifest, from experience that God passes over many sins without punishment. At once recallExodus 24:1-18 ; Exodus 24:1-18 particularly appropriate in view of events. 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