Among the vessels of the sanctuary the altar of incense stands first (versesExodus 30:1-10; Exodus 30:1-10). When Moses ceased to commune with He hears the noise, which Joshua could not so well understand, but which his own keener and more practised ear fails not to interpret aright; and as soon as he came near, and saw the confirmation of his fears the calf and the dancing his "anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. Accordingly they were severed by the ordinance of circumcision and other rites. Long-suffering; as also in Numbers 14:18, and Psalms 86:15. He accordingly drew near into the thick darkness; for so God dealt with Israel as a people in the flesh. 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. Ver. Web5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. Coming from within that light inaccessible, the only-begotten Son from the bosom of the Father declared what was thereviz., love. In June, fifty days after Passover, after seven weeks after Passover, then the next day began-seven weeks would be forty-nine days. We ought to know heaven better than the earth. That is the bearing of it all. In divine things there is nothing like simplicity; by it we enjoy a wisdom far higher than our own and real power to strengthen and guide the heart. (2.) Just as in the type the priests had not only to be washed completely in the laver in order to be consecrated; but whenever they entered into the presence of God, they washed their hands and feet. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ. Exodus 34:1. No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. The measure of it for the Christian is based on the fact that he possesses life, and that he has Christ Himself, the object which shows him the position in which he stands, and consequently the character of the relationship that attaches to him. The understanding of this comes in the antithesis in the word "generation" at the end of Exodus 34:7. God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. 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. [2.] (vs.1-28) Slow to anger, Bears long, even when the wrongs of His saints call for His vengeance (Luke 18:7). 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. He is the intrinsic power by which the truth is received into the heart, but Christ is the object. He was a sinner, and nothing else. God therefore makes much of the sign. This vital separation to God, and not practical holiness, is what is here called sanctification of the Spirit the most fundamental meaning of it indeed anywhere. As Law says, this heart is mercy. The with Moses. edit., vol. 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. Of them He came, and He deigned to have the memorial of them on this table before God. 24/7 Support We wont leave you out to dry. God does not stop here. He is long-suffering. Now if gold represents God's righteousness which we approach within; and if brass or rather copper means, when thus symbolically viewed, His righteousness as applied to man outside in His immutable judgment, what is the force of silver in this connection? So they are going to destroy themselves. As promised in Exodus 33:19. _and_ HE (Moses) TOOK HIS STAND (cf. 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. But there was another requisite next set forth. He will not give up his love and desire for Israel. 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. He felt that such evil must at all cost be rooted out, and banished from amongst them. TRANSLATION And when their child is born, it is born with an addiction to drugs. "Exodus" is a Latin word derived from Greek Exodos, the name given to the book by those who translated it into Greek. 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. God himself is the Webadds, "Since, however, this phrase is explained very differently by others, both Exodus 34:7, and Jeremiah 25:29, as well as these words, may be thus rendered: Thou therefore thyself shalt be utterly cut off." proclaimed the name of the LORD. CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY Surely the scripture describes the days in which we live when it refers to "unnatural affections". As Christ is the true and perfect image of God, so is He the expression of all that is good and holy in man. The Divine name was proclaimed condescendingly. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." Gods glory is His goodness. What were they doing in their groves? THE TEXT OF EXODUS the seeming disorder of God is incomparably more orderly than man's best order. 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. The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ): Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. made to him. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was Divorce has become such an easy thing. How greatly blessed then is the Christian, and what the manner and measure of the worship and the walk which become those to whom grace has given such a knowledge of God! It is God displaying Himself in Christ; but those who had this connection with Christ were Israel. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. Now, let me ask, what mind of man could ever have thought of a decision so excellent, though surely far below the surface? What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? The Divine name was proclaimed personally. It was necessarily so with the high priest taken from among men, after the witness already given to Christ's exceptional place. Next, from the latter part ofExodus 27:1-21; Exodus 27:1-21 we have a change evident, and of more weight. _I will write upon these tables. All these, I have no doubt, have their own proper significance, as manifesting the character of Christ here below. It was the power of the Spirit. We know Him better than even His earthly people will know Him by and by. Even the goodness of God must be looked upon by us with a profound veneration and holy awe. WebExodus 34:5 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament When Moses had restored the covenant bond through his intercession ( Exodus 33:14 ), he was Simonides the philosopher, being requested to describe God, asked a week to think of it. 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. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never 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. The Lord accordingly hearkens in grace, and undertakes for Israel against the Canaanites, warning them against a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and insisting on His own sole worship, His feasts, His firstlings and firstfruits; on His sabbaths, on the absence of leaven and unseemly ways, the fruit of Satan's wiles among the heathen. As He will never cease to be God, He will never cease to be man. This sacred glimpse of God's loving mercy lies behind the N.T. Translations for Exodus 34:1. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. They are one in the same God. It simply proves that he who expounds unwittingly sets aside the gospel. 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. (3.) This was the transfiguration of Moses. Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. (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. All the previous dealings of God with Israel had been successive revelations of His attributes, embraced in the name JEHOVAH. Therefore, they were to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread and maintain the practice of redeeming their firstborn (18-20; see 12:15-36; 13:1-16). 24:18). Whatever be the work of God, His rest remains for His people. God was able to sustain him without food, without water. Very often it is not so little a while, as many of us know to our cost. 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. What was the meaning of the blood? Practical sanctification for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus! Longsuffering, not good by spasm or effort, but patient and unwearied. No.In Corinthians we are told that the reason for the veil over his face is so that they would not see the shining go away, fading. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 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, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Abundant; to Gods goodness there is no limit. 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. In Nehemiah 9:17, and elsewhere, slow to anger. Heb., 5 long of nostrils, or anger. No real believer ever takes the ground of pure law. is one of the most striking sermons in the Bible. 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.) Then, after the priesthood has been fully brought before us, we have the various portions of their dress. The Lord descended By some sensible token of his presence, and As long as this was the case only, man could not come to God. CALLED UPON _the name of_ JEHOVAH] i.e. Can this God be unkind or unjust? THE COVENANT WORDS. Every Christian has a nature that is intrinsically divine, as we are told in 2 Peter 1:1-21. What man or institution has these qualities? (1.) Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus EXODUS 34:1 J. He besought the Lord again to re-establish His covenant acknowledging the sinfulness of the Israelites with whom he humbly identified. 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