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. Before we can behold the vision of Eternal Love we must be willing to The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. Therefore, according to the usual phrase of Scripture, the sacred name of God is applied to the visible symbol; not that the empty cloud was a figure of the absent Deity, but because it testified His presence according to the comprehension of men. prayer. It bespeaks promised goodness, goodness and truth put together, goodness engaged by promise, and his faithfulness pledged for the security of it. It is the type of Christ interceding for us, and along with this the high priest's work that the manifestation of the Spirit be not hindered. A certain reserve becomes requisite to majesty; whereas such considerations disappear in the nearness of relationship He is pleased to enter into with us. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD Moses desired to see the _glory_ of Let us not forget it. This denotes, [1.] What a motive for parents! came into the camp. It is not thus that the believer, even if a Jew and therefore under law, was withdrawn from its condemning power. 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. 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. and, as it would seem, disappeared. There isn't a God of the Old Testament, and a different God of the New. God himself is the Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. Thus he is sanctified by the Spirit unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. (Exodus 27:1-21) Not less than the ark, the golden throne of God in the most holy place, it shows us God's righteousness; but with this difference between them that gold is the righteousness of God for drawing near where God is; brass is the righteousness of God for dealing with man's evil where man is. Thus, whatever sin on our part may call for, we have here the whole scene of creation, all things in heaven and all things on earth, claimed in the power of the Spirit in virtue of Christ's person and title, just as He was in fact anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power apart from blood-shedding. This is all the more striking too, because even after the redemption of the people from Egypt there are grievous faults, unbelief, complaints, and murmurs; nevertheless, not a blow, not a single answer on God's part save in tender mercy towards a poor and failing people. As Law says, this heart is mercy. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and WebExodus 34:5-7. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. Accordingly they were severed by the ordinance of circumcision and other rites. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME 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. 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 Let a man once steal, and he is never trusted again, even though he has made reparation for it. He belonged to God automatically. "He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[ a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. We have what answers to it. It is a question of mortifying our members which are on earth, on the ground of our being dead, and of walking by the Spirit, even as we live by Him, and of those not in anywise fulfilling flesh's lust. If I may venture on such an expression without irreverence, it is the introducing us into the family circle of the heavens the Father made known in the Son by the Holy Ghost. It is not Christianity to talk of "deficiencies of the Spirit," any more than of "still remaining tendencies to sin;" still less to call in the discipline of the law to mend matters. They are made of iron; they are made of stone. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.". Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. It is in no way the glory which is the hope of the Christian. 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. out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth IN THE CLOUD; in the cloudy pillar, which ordinarily stood up in the (1.) with Moses. were in the first tables, which you broke. A man hitherto has been altogether indifferent to the word of God. Not atonement. 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." We know His tender mercy in the smallest matters; but in that which so nearly concerns His honour, it is indeed a truly merciful provision that the Great High Priest bears the iniquity of holy things, where other wise defilement would be fatal. The Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. He is the servant of His own choice for ever. This always abides; for the law is lawful if a man use it lawfully. 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. It has saving joy for countless yet. 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. In the last He hears it now; he receives Jesus as the gift of God's love with all simplicity. THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's But it was presented here for the most part in a way that betrayed the condition of man not in positive precepts but in negative ones a most humbling proof of man's estate. Now there are all kinds of molten images in the land of Canaan. The Jew had it after this outward sort, all being comparatively external in Israel. 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. He will by no means clear the guilty. Scripture never sacrifices one truth to another. "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." The atmosphere is sometimes terrible with thunder, and riven with lightningimpregnated with pestilence, and charged with destruction. 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 God is not the discovery of the unaided intellect. No doubt the time was not yet come for God to reveal Himself as He is. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. It was bold faith, working in unfeigned love of the people, and with a deep sense of what God is spite of all demerits; yet its highest petition is based on revealed grace, and is therefore the very reverse of human presumption. That would be absolutely glorious. (1.) We may be ignorant, and unable to expose them; but we may rest perfectly sure that God is never wrong and man ever untrustworthy. It is a great mistake to suppose that the proclamation of divine goodness in this scene is the gospel. An unwillingness, a hardness of the heart, and an unwillingness to see that the marriage goes. If it weren't for the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the world would be in a much greater mess than it is today, because people are doing such absolutely foolish things in destroying their own children. He visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. 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.) It is false that the law is dead. 1 And the Lord said to Moses: "Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. Can this God be unkind or unjust? Thousands have found mercy; but there are stores for thousands yet.(2.) And Jehovah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made." But if they are allowed to make a covenant and live among the people, they will infect God's people with this same deadly corruption. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. I get so tired of hearing them say, "Well, I just don't love them anymore." regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. It must not be of hewn stone, as their work would profane it; neither must the Israelite go up by steps, as thereby his nakedness would be manifested. 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. 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. God, the cloud removed from the door of the Tent of Meeting, PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD._ The rabies are gonna kill the dog. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." God had said, in the close of the proclamation, that he would visit the iniquity upon the children; and Moses here deprecates that. It is not merely as having the word that reveals heaven; but we know it from Him who comes from heaven and is above all, and testifies what He has seen and heard; we know it through the Holy Ghost who has come down from it, and hence should know it better than the earth, and the things of the world which ensnare the flesh. Then we have the veil and screen. God has revealed His mind, and to this, if wise, we must needs be subject. the seeming disorder of God is incomparably more orderly than man's best order. regarded, as the historical account of how God fulfil And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them The man who met God was unaware of his glory till others told him of it; by contrast, the people who had easily fallen into sin were afraid when they met one who appeared to them as a shining messenger from God (29-35; cf. False report and testimony are forbidden, were a multitude to lead the way; as on the other hand there must be no partiality to the poor man's cause, nor a refusal to help an enemy, nor falsehood, nor bribery, nor oppression. 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. We must take care that we receive the sense which God intends, otherwise we may err seriously, to His dishonour and to our own hurt and that of others. It was no deduction of philosophy, no imposition of priestcraft, but the revelation of the Lord (Job 11:7; 1 Corinthians 1:21). There lay the insuperable difficulty once; but now grace perfectly meets it, and meets it in a way which evinces alike the goodness and the wisdom of God. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. WebExodus 34:5-7. 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. with Moses. Exodus 34:5-7. God may treat them as the people of Moses, and say, "They are the people you have brought up: they are your people." And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. on high), that they also might be sanctified by the truth." 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. With this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. Exodus 34:1 I believe that it happened because the Bible declares that it happened. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. *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. Hence they have the imperfection of a shadow. It may be looked at in its general and historical bearing, more abstractly as a moral test. If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. On Moses reaching the summit of CHAPTER XXXIV. 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It has been remarked by another, and it is perfectly true, that in this book when we meet with any dealing of God, of whatever kind it may be, the Sabbath-day is always introduced. Once more the Divine justice operates through natural laws, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, &c. How? 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. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). WebJohn Gill's Exposition of the Bible /. Hence we see its character and the reason why it appears here. PROCLAIMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, called out and explained the THIRD SECTION Such is the line which divides them. 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. Translations for Exodus 34:1. Without life it is impossible for one to produce that which is according to God; and without a worthy object, nay without a divine object presented, there can be nothing to draw out divine affections. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. It is the peculiar property and glory of the word of God that it communicates not merely a truth here and there, but the truth; and this in the person of Christ. Calvin Soc. And what was the object of the priesthood? _I will write upon these tables. God himself is the It was not merely a new nature or a new position, but it was a corresponding power of the Spirit of God. 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. His greatness and goodness illustrate and set off each other. His holy submission to the will of God, made known in this declaration, subscribing to his justice as well as mercy, and putting himself and his people Israel under the government and direction of such a God as Jehovah had now proclaimed himself to be. I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. CHAPTER XXXIV.THE VISION OF GOD.Exodus 34:1-35It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask, "Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory" (Exodus 33:18).We have seen how nobly this petition Deuteronomy 10:4_. THE COVENANT OF THE LAW RENEWED Simonides the philosopher, being requested to describe God, asked a week to think of it. Additional reminders concerned requirements for sacrifices and firstfruits (25-26; see 23:18-19).God then made a declaration that the covenant Israel had broken was now re-established. God is oftentimes faulted. (vs.1-28) His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. We know from our Lord Jesus its moral summary and essence the love of God, and the love of man. No way. "Now Lord, I've seen Your glory. 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. (377) So the V. Stetit Moyses eum eo, invocans nomen Domini.. This is a branch of God's goodness which the wickedness of sinners gives occasion for; that of Israel had done so: they had tried his patience, and experienced it. It is recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover. Exodus 34:6. This is the way to lose all but a minimum of truth. 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. The petals, so to speak, of Gods goodness were set before Moses in full bloom in this verse; but in the New Testament it was sufficient to give the bud, God is love., Ill sing it in the sinners ear,Ill tell it to the worldling,And ask no other theme;Twill flow to soothe the mourners wail;Children will hold the oft-told taleDearer than fictions dream.. 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