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";s:4:"text";s:28312:"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 An unwillingness, a hardness of the heart, and an unwillingness to see that the marriage goes. The Divine justice is Inflexible. and the childrens children, to the third and the fourth generation.. And what was the object of the priesthood? One inscription was in the shoulder-pieces. 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. The thought may sometimes rise, that mercy visits but a favoured few, that the rare gift enriches but rare souls. WebThat's the way Joel understood Exodus 34:57. morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was But, secondly, the law is a test morally and individually. No doubt He cannot but be a divine person, the Son, as He is also the exalted Lord; but He is nevertheless by His own grace the servant for ever. "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." He loved sin so well that God had to interdict it. (vs.1-28) The judgment of One who could not bear sin was represented in the copper sockets of the boards which gave immutable stability; but grace in redemption was that on which all hung and shone in the chapiters and fillets also, the ornament of the work. Another revelation has been vouchsafed since, based upon the same condescension (Philippians 2:5). 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. That wasn't the prophet Isaiah thundering out, that was the writer of the book of Hebrews declaring the judgment of God that shall come upon those who have rejected His grace, and His mercy, through Jesus Christ. Ver. He had to put a veil on his face. He will not always suffer even the pardoned sinner to escape with entire impunity. Children become the innocent victims because their parents aren't able to soften their hearts before God and each other enough to make the marriage work. Revelation of Gods Grace. God now was performing what he had promised Moses, the day before, that his glory should pass by, Exodus 33:22; Exodus 33:22. He forgives offences of all sorts--iniquity, transgression, and sin, multiplies his pardons; and with him is plenteous redemption. In Exodus 28:1-43; Exodus 29:1-46 is given the prescribed ceremonial in consecrating the priesthood. It is remarkable that on this occasion the tabernacle and all within it were anointed with oil. He immediately adds, "and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." The springs of mercy are always full, the streams of mercy always flowing; there is mercy enough in God, enough for all, enough for each, enough for ever. O God, how beautiful the thought,How merciful the blessd decree,That grace can eer be found when sought,And naught shut out the soul from Thee!. 7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,b. Now three times in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel ( Exodus 34:22-23 ). The people thereon mourn; and Moses has recourse to a remarkable act. 2 Corinthians 3:7-18, noticing (1) that St Paul interprets the narrative allegorically, assigning as the reason why Moses used to put on the veil, not that the Israelites might not constantly be beholding the glow on Moses face, but Some, (377) therefore, understand it of Moses, that he called on the name of the Lord. Still Christ does bring us into His own relationship as far as it is possible for the creature to possess it. WebTheme: Redemption (See this concept - 11x/7v Exodus 6:6; 13:13, 15; 15:13; 21:8, 30; 34:20). Is it not known that for a righteous man (which assuredly the believer is) law is not in force, but for lawless and insubordinate, the ungodly and sinful. Here it seems to be not so much what we have by Christ, but that fragrance in Christ Himself of which God alone is the adequate judge, and which rises up before Him in all its perfection. Pardoning mercy is specified, because in this divine grace is most magnified, and because in this divine grace is most magnified, and because it is this which opens the door to all other gifts of his divine grace, and because of this he had lately given a very pregnant proof. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. As we enjoy the vanishing glory of the sun, so did Moses exult in the vision of the Divine glory. ". air above the mount, but came down to the top of it when God spake Translations for Exodus 34:1. "Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." 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. TRANSLATION And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ). So they are going to destroy themselves. I grant you that, looking at the Pentecostal saints, in them we see the most powerful united testimony that ever was borne in this world; but it was borne in what was comparatively not the severest trial in earthly things chiefly, the superiority of those who had been newly created in Christ to the wretched selfishness of human nature. Finally, when the work was finished and all duly set up, a cloud covered the appointed tent, and the glory of Jehovah filled the dwelling. God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. Nay, mercys arms are very wide; mercys heart is very large; mercys mansions are very many. For, (1.) 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. 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. He sometimes will do it, especially for the punishment of idolaters. So he would veil his face when he would go out and talk with the children of Israel, because he would have this shining on his face. And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate: and spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. (1-4) II. Not an inference from the phenomena of nature. 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. The habitual means whereby God gives proof that He is right, graciously enabling us to understand is by His word. exodus 34:5 the lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the lord. 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. 5. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. There were believers before it and all through; but this of course wholly distinct from Judaism. They still have that veil over their face as God seeks to speak to them today, and they cannot see that Jesus Christ is indeed the Messiah that God had promised to the nation Israel. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. Thus, it is plain, nothing can be more complete. The reference is to the fine linen and blue, etc., with the various coverings of goats' hair and badger skins. Aaron's sons were to have coats, priests' girdles, and bonnets for glory and for beauty. 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. The truth has touched his conscience by grace, and God's mercy, however dimly seen, is enough to attract his heart to obey. Now that God is about to publish a second edition of the law he prefaces it with this proclamation; for it is God's grace or goodness that gives the law, especially the remedial law. He considers that distinct meanings to be attached to the materials, colours, etc., can have no solid foundation, and are " here out of place"! [Note: See J. Carl Laney, "Gods Self-Revelation in Exodus 34:6-8," Bibliotheca Sacra 158:629 (January-March 2001):36-51.]. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord . 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 reason is manifest; for the proper knowledge of the Christian is such knowledge as the Son, speaking according to His own communion with His Father, communicates to us. 1 And the Lord said to Moses: "Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. The word means "exit," "departure" (see Lk 9:31; Heb 11:22 ). "Therefore, Lord, do thou go among us, else they will never be kept in awe. 5. Then, after the priesthood has been fully brought before us, we have the various portions of their dress. 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. It bespeaks promised goodness, goodness and truth put together, goodness engaged by promise, and his faithfulness pledged for the security of it. How I thank God for it more and more, especially as I see people who-my heart goes out to them, they've never had a chance to know what a real loving home is all about, a real godly home is all about. For the soul the great change is a fact; it remains for the body when the Lord comes. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. This is the way to lose all but a minimum of truth. It is not a merely legal way of escaping the dreadful doom that he sees is the just portion of those that despise God. Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. WebThe Lord had told Moses that he had found grace in his sight. We know from our Lord Jesus its moral summary and essence the love of God, and the love of man. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. It is not God who thus deals with humanity, of which Israel was the chosen specimen, and the one remembered before Him; but in the seven candlesticks, or rather the candelabrum with its seven lights, we clearly see the type of Christ as the power and giver of the Holy Ghost in testimony for God. This is the new division brought in and what might seem at first sight a notable irregularity, as has been observed before, is simply an effect of the perfect arrangement of God's mind. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. The proclaiming of it denotes the universal extent of God's mercy. 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." To forsake God and follow other religious ideas would be spiritual adultery, compared to the unfaithfulness of a woman who leaves her husband for another man (12-17).Accompanying the renewal of the covenant was a command to the people never to forget their deliverance from Egypt. The Divine name was proclaimed condescendingly. Hence therefore, no sooner does God propose to them that they should obey His law as the condition of their blessing at His hands, than they at once accept the terms: "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine." It is a fountain that ever flows and is never exhausted (Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 3:21; Philippians 4:19). It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth In the latter part of the chapter we have clearly the legal glory. 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. How big is your God? (Exodus 34:10) Moses had prayed Him as Adonai to "go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our sin, and take us for thine inheritance." Web34. Others have had the page of nature spread before them, and yet have been either atheists or idolaters. not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. Where Christ is thus received in the Holy Ghost, a new kind of responsibility is created. I can go into the classrooms here at Maranatha Academy and sit and observe in one day, and at the end of the day I can tell you each child that comes from a broken home, just by watching the characteristics within the child. The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). He is abundant in goodness and truth. As He will never cease to be God, He will never cease to be man. God had said, in the close of the proclamation, that he would visit the iniquity upon the children; and Moses here deprecates that. 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. Undoubtedly in itself it composed a worldly tabernacle; but this does not hinder these figures from typifying what was to be for the most part of a heavenly character. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. 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). Before we can behold the vision of Eternal Love we must be willing to 2. No real believer ever takes the ground of pure law. 1. "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. This is another thing, and only a consequence when the due moment arrives. 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. Long-suffering; as also in Numbers 14:18, and Psalms 86:15. pillar, which was now gone up from the door of the tabernacle, and was It is for us, but it is only in Him before God. Exodus 29:5-6). 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. This is the peculiarity. And when he would come out, and speak with the children of Israel that which was commanded. Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. But after the form of hallowing the priests, the Spirit prescribes in the end of Exodus 39:1-43 (ver. Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never The disciples feared, when they entered the cloud. The Christian loves to obey, and is already forgiven through faith of Jesus and His blood. If I do nothing to stop it, if I do nothing to hinder it, that little dog could actually kill a lot of the children on the playground, infect them so that they also would die. That is very true; it is impossible if you're only dealing with natural things. The cloudy pillar, which had stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting ( Exodus 33:10 ), was withdrawn while Moses ascended Sinai, and probably disappeared from men's sight. The consequence of such a division is indeed lowering in the extreme. What man or institution has these qualities? Comp. As we read it, we must expound it that he will by no means connive at the guilty, as if he took no notice of their sin. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, and in a very interesting way. But it is a strange plea he urges: For it is a stiff-necked people. His humble reverence and adoration of God's glory, giving him the honour due to that name he had thus proclaimed. Grace covers through the expiation of Christ, as it flows in virtue of God's work and in maintaining God's order. 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 ). There is no other means of knowing the mind of God; the power for understanding is the Spirit of God; and the object in whose light alone it can be understood is Christ. "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 ). 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. were in the first tables, which you broke. But what I have stated is very suitable, that, lest impunity should beget audaciousness, after God has spoken of His mercy, He adds an exception, viz., that the iniquity is by no means pardoned, which is accompanied by obstinacy. This bespeaks his tender compassion, like that of a father to his children. "And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the Ten commandments.". Then it was sort of a Thanksgiving. And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Abisamach, of the tribe of Dan. What God is in and o Himself is thus defined: The Lord, the Lord God. The self-existent, self sufficient, all-powerful One. 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. 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. "Now Lord, I've seen Your glory. "I will _And proclaimed the name of the Lord._] In answer to Moses's Even the goodness of God must be looked upon by us with a profound veneration and holy awe. Jonah's Use of This Passage. That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them. The Divine name was proclaimed relatively. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). Exodus hides the complex details while assets are exchanged in seconds. On this, being so thoroughly familiar to all, I of course do not enlarge. 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.". It is in vain for any person to pretend that it was better to have the Urim and Thummim, for which one had to seek the priest from time to time when wanted, than to be indwelt always by One who knows all the truth. Then we have the veil and screen. (6.) The atmosphere is sometimes terrible with thunder, and riven with lightningimpregnated with pestilence, and charged with destruction. ", These words must be viewed as a fulfillment on God's part of the revelation which he had promised Moses at the end of the preceding chapter. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. and, as it would seem, disappeared. God has revealed His mind, and to this, if wise, we must needs be subject. It would not be suitable to such a position that there should be undue familiarity. proclaimed the name of the LORD. CHAPTER 34 The last of these types is the holy perfume. (1.) The Lord God is Fixed views of God are reserved for the future state; the best we have in this world are transient. relation with them. He loved the people Himself, and delighted in Moses' love for them. It is evident that law as such, first of all, has no object to present to man. In Nehemiah 9:17, and elsewhere, slow to anger. Heb., 5 long of nostrils, or anger. 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. The attributes of God mentioned in this passage are usually cited as follows: (6) forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin (a summary of all wickedness). Of these the highest is the ark. It is in vain to argue that the fruit of the teaching of Peter or of James had the same power with it as the fruit of Paul not very long after, or of John latest of all. marg. For they who despised Moses' law were put to death in the mouth of two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he could be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and who hath counted the blood of His covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace? God himself is the We need "the washing of regeneration" and generally the washing of water by the word. It is in no way the glory which is the hope of the Christian. The feast [Now God lays out the various feasts that they were to have, the three feasts, "the feast",] of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. The rabies are gonna kill the dog. He for giveth iniquity, transgression, and sin. They are quoted in Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; Joel 2:15; Jonah 4:2; and also Numbers 14:18. In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant Revelation of Gods Grace. They take a mingled system; they mix up law and grace together. Now that's the part that I have, "Here God, You can have me for Your inheritance." 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. Yet what perhaps, well it's not even any worse, but fathers that abuse their own sons. No society can exist that is that corrupted. The first, Exodus 3:4, was delivered to Moses for his instruction and Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a See on Exodus 33:19. There were the names in a general way six on one shoulder, six on the other. In short therefore the children of Israel stood on the ground of man in the flesh; and man in the flesh, as he is a sinful being, can neither deny nor accomplish his obligation to do the will of God. I cannot understand it, don't ask me to explain it.Here is the place where I, as a devout Jew, though I am not a Jew, but as a devout Jew who's just comes to that place where he bows his head and says nothing, when I think of how God has placed such a high value on my life. The very notion of a king and a kingdom puts the subjects at a greater distance. He descended _in the cloud_ Probably that morning. (2) _S Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GODS *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM VERSES 1-9 MOSES ALLOWED TO SEE GODS GLORY. For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God"( Hebrews 10:27-29 , Hebrews 10:31 ). the seeming disorder of God is incomparably more orderly than man's best order. His relationship is that of a son, not merely of one adopted into that place with no more reality than he obtains in human things. Next came the table,* and upon it a defined supply of bread. The latter is practical sanctification, admits of degrees, and is thus relative. On Moses reaching the summit of CHAPTER XXXIV. 28 Moses afte And the Lord descended in the cloud, in the pillar in which His glory 5 The Lorddescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. THE TEXT OF EXODUS To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WebExodus 34:1-4 The second promulgation of the moral law, by the renewal of the two tables may teach us I. Let us not forget it. Poor people! So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. The veil is rent; and we walk in the light as He is in the light. "And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. "There is nothing more terrible than the way in which sin clings to a man and dogs his footsteps. God is oftentimes faulted. 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. When he'd go before the Lord he'd take the veil off.Now twice in the New Testament this veil is mentioned there in a couple of different ways. For I will cast out the nations before thee, enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year. forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents. If the people were under the test of law, Moses was under the test of grace. Their highest conceptions were to clothe him with clouds, while the poets robed him in terrors. "Sanctified" in this sense is clearly before justification; and so the apostle puts it. 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. As Law says, this heart is mercy. The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, the skin of Moses' face it was shining: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went to speak with the Lord ( Exodus 34:29-35 ). 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. He will by no means clear the guilty. 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. His descending bespeaks his condescension; he humbles himself to take cognizance of those that humble themselves to walk with him. 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