We shall have a lively sense of the awfulness of this message, when we call to mind what passed between God and his servant Moses in the Mount, when the Lord was giving him directions for the building and furniture of the tabernacle. This tabernacle was not begun; and, therefore, to bid the people g... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS Moses receives a command from the Lord to deliver to the people a message that he will not go with them; but he will not wholly leave them without a witness of his mercy, for he will send an angel before them. This chapter relates to us this message, and the effect it wrought on the minds... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 7:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
These were strong marks of true repentance. See 2 Samuel 12:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
The removal of the tabernacle was another indication of the Lord's displeasure. Leviticus 26:21. This tabernacle, it should be remembered, was only the temporary camp, where ordinances had been occasionally observed, until the appointed tabernacle was erected. Observe, there were some gracious souls... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not the Lord Jesus here pointed out? Are not all eyes by faith directed unto him, when going in before the mercy-seat? Acts 1:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 12:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the sweet fruits of grace. Zechariah 12:10. It should seem that the cloudy pillar had withdrawn from the camp during their idol worship, and now again returned. When the Lord inclines our hearts to seek him, he comes to bless us. James 4:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it not probable that this was the Lord Jesus in a visible form, as the covenant man? see Gen_17:1; Gen_18:1-2; Judges 13:3 with Exodus 21:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! I charge it upon you that you keep in view him whom Moses represented, through the whole of this most interesting interview. Is it not by him, whom the Father heareth always, every token of divine favour is conveyed? John 1:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe how Moses improves upon God's mercy; just now it was this people, and the Lord in displeasure had called them Moses' people, but now Moses calls them God's people. What a sweet prayer is that of the prophet's to this amount. Isaiah 63:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the power of prayer: compare Exodus 33:3 with this verse; the change is not in the divine mind, but in the people. The Lord varies his dispensations according as his grace makes them suited to receive the change. Isaiah 63:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
See how Moses advanceth in requests. Genesis 18:23; Numbers 14:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the grand cause of all, having found grace in the Lord's sight. Romans 9:15; Matthew 11:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, Moses had been long in the Mount with God, and yet now desired fresh communications of the divine presence. Reader! mark this down as a sure testimony of having tasted God's graciousness, that the soul longeth for more. Psalms 63:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, God's glory in the salvation of sinners is his goodness; Jesus is the Father's glory. Hebrews 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Timothy 6:16, with John 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not this rock Christ? 1 Corinthians 10:4. Do not these cliffs mean the wounded side of Jesus, in which the church is sheltered? See Song of Solomon 2:14. By seeing the Lord in passing, doth it not mean that our present views are all transient? In heaven it is reserved for the full manifestation... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS My soul! think, seriously think, in the view of the Lord's withdrawing the symbols of his divine presence from Israel, how truly awful must that state of the soul be, from whom the Lord hides his face, and taketh away the influences of his Holy Spirit. How will the heart grow hardened,... [ Continue Reading ]