and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord , I did not make Myself known to them. And take care that, not only knowing and enjoying it, we walk suitably to grace: else it loses its character. Because You haven't delivered them, and things are just worse. *The attempt to eke out proofs of diversity of authorship from alleged contradictions and confusion is not only futile, but evidence of incapacity to discern what is excellent and full of instruction. Therefore the change in the body is the mere consequence of what we have already; whereas Christ in heavenly glory as the fruit of redemption and of God's righteousness is the hinge of all that will glorify God and secure the blessing not of the Old Testament saints and the church only but of Israel, the nations, man, the earth, heaven, and all things for ever, around the mighty centre of all. 29-40.]. We owe everything to Christ. This took place at Sinai (Exodus 19:5). God will attain his own ends, nor shall we come short of them if we make them our chief end too. "Therefore the name of it was called Marah. The result is the same, whether we translate Elohim by "god" or "gods;" but the singular verb shows that the plural form of the name is a mere plural of dignity. Thus, although we have sacrifice as such, covenant and other kindred dealings of God, redemption in its full import at least is never brought before us in that book. Chapter 3 begins with Now, which introduces a new section of the book. Indeed the denial of salvation as a present status is part of the current coin of Christendom, and the truth is opposed in one way or another by the parties who otherwise oppose each other. Leprosy is the type of it in its defilement. He is now going to deliver Israel from their bondage and take them to himself as a people and be their God (Exodus 6:6). The one represents Moses as asking for a temporary release of the people (Exodus 5:3, etc); the other for their entire deliverance (Exodus 6:11; Exodus 7:2; Exodus 9:35; Exodus 11:10).". Some believe it was introduced into Genesis by way of anticipation. t Vid. This is what He is from everlasting to everlasting. Then, when the people who had voluntarily accepted legal conditions murmured once more for flesh, tiring of the manna, they were dealt with according to the law under which they stood, and judgment fell on them from God, instead of the grace they had originally known. If we are subject to scripture, we must say that there is no such thing as universal redemption; but we must confess the truth of universal purchase. Heb., There shalt be to thee no other god before me. Thus the worthy magistrate proved he had the power implied in the name by executing the duties of his office. God Almighty - Rather, El Shaddai, ( 'el shadday), it is better to keep this as a proper name. The actual wreck of Israelitish hopes is the result both of their assuming legal condition in the first place, and next of their rejection of the grace of God that came in by Jesus Christ our Lord, and was proclaimed by the Spirit sent down from heaven. But yet the Lord is saying, "By My name Jehovah was I not known." Otherwise, there could have been no point at all in mentioning the names of those patriarchs ten times upon those occasions when Moses was using the name. If the firstborn of an animal could not be sacrificed, it must like man's firstborn be redeemed. It appears that the wife had something to do with the matter. (a) By which he signifies that he will perform indeed that which he promised to their fathers: for this name declares that he is constant and will perform his promise. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. God would now be known by his name Jehovah, that is, (1.) When it lists then the names of the sons of Levi, it goes on then to name the grandsons and the great grandsons in order that we might have a genealogy that will bring us down to Moses and Aaron. Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Thus and thus only was the Israelite to eat of the lamb, sanctified by and to this holy feast, eating of its roast flesh that night and leaving none till the morning, or, if aught remained, burning it with fire. (Verses 4, 12) The gift of manna to the people is also connected with that of the quails. But God was working not only for a design according to His own heart, but so that the manner in which that design was to be accomplished should bring Him glory. p. 189. This may help our appreciation of the word of God in all such cases. Carefully remember that this does not imply that the word " Jehovah" was not known. So Moses spoke to the children of Israel: [these words of the Lord] but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for the cruel bondage ( Exodus 6:6-9 ). In an episode that felt very much like a series conclusion, Ted does what he has to do, Richmond plays for a title, and Rebecca finds what she has been waiting for. Shaddai may come from the Hebrew sd ("breast") or from the Ugaritic tdy ("mountain"). Now these are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. Aurea Pythagor. A more unintelligent criticism it is impossible to conceive. There is another important point to note in the chapter. They were prepared and appointed by him to carry out his work of delivering Israel from Egypt. So you have a little genealogy to bring you to Moses and Aaron just sort of inserted here into chapter six, so you'll know where they came from. Destruction in one way or another seemed to be inevitable. That is, [1.] And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, That the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee. Another fact is mentioned before we close the chapter, and one of deep and grave practical instruction. This again is not an immaterial expression by the way, but bound up with the truth now first brought before us: "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established. Hope undoubtedly has its full place; for we suffer still, and Christ Himself is gone to prepare a place for us, and is coming again to receive us to Himself, and that we may be glorified together. It seemed to him that God had failed to keep his promise. And I have also established my covenant with them, [That is with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.] EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. As then the living streams flowed, so the Holy Ghost, we know, was not given till Christ was glorified as the result of redemption. [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, 1:467.] So will it be for earthly people, when gathered back to God's land here below. He did indeed accomplish it, but at all cost to Himself. It was not first received in Midian and afterwards repeated in Egypt, because the former call is followed by Moses and Aaron going in to Pharaoh and asking him to let the Israelites go for the purpose of holding a feast in the wilderness. And I've also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant ( Exodus 6:4-5 ). In short, unbelief in the first instance is never the consequence of judicial hardness on God's part. "Now we know in part." God said to Moses, you know he had his feathers ruffled and he was all uptight, and God said, "Hey, wait a minute. Here man had to face death, and that in what was dearest to him his first-born. And when you really believe that your refuge is the omnipotence of GOD ALMIGHTY, there is a joy and a freedom and a power that spills over in a life of radical obedience to the Jesus Christ. (2.) There he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them." ; and consequently the period of doubling at this rate would be less than sixteen years. They knew Me as God Almighty, but they didn't really know that relationship of intimacy that I want you and the people to experience as I take, and begin to watch over you, and I begin to care for you, and I begin to put the food on your table.". Contributing Writer Mar 03, 2022 The book of Exodus not only tells some of the Bible's most famous events, but the word means something that sums up the book's entire message. Who's guiding these things? Nevertheless God expresses in the most affecting manner His tender interest in them even as they were. How many times we think we're in the driver's seat. Was it to be in view of His grace or their desert? But then what follows this is not the Sabbath, but conflict with the enemy. Thus Moses was learned, as we are told, in all the learning of the Egyptians. In other words, they knew Him in a less personal way than Moses was to know God. It happens to be traveling at about nineteen miles a second. El-Shaddai, God All-sufficient, they knew well by the continual provision he made for them, and the constant protection he afforded them: but the name JEHOVAH is particularly to be referred to the accomplishment of promises already made; to the giving them a being, and thus bringing them into existence, which could not have been done in the order of his providence sooner than here specified: this name therefore in its power and significancy was not known unto them; nor fully known unto their descendants till the deliverance from Egypt and the settlement in the promised land. It is commoner than people imagine. For instance, take the Nile: we know the boastfulness of Egypt in that river which they supposed to be the great earthly emblem of God. . In this revelation God promised to do three things for Israel. Genesis 15:6, and but comparatively, as some think; that is, he was not so much made known to them by the one name as the other; though it may be questioned whether the one was more used in speaking to them than the other; wherefore others think, as Saadiah Gaon, that the word only is to be supplied, as in Genesis 32:28 and the sense to be, that by his name Jehovah he was not only made known to them, but by his name Elshaddai, and others also; and others reconcile the difficulty thus, that though the name Jehovah itself was known to the patriarchs, by which they were assured that God is eternal, immutable, and faithful to his promises; yet he was not known as to the efficacy of this name, or with respect to the actual performance of his promise, as he now would be by delivering the children of Israel out of Egypt, and bringing them into the land of Canaan; though perhaps, by reading the words with an interrogation, the clause will appear more plain, "and by my name Jehovah was I not known to them?" (Essay on the Principle of Population, ii. How good the Lord that speaks to us about the things not of grace only but of nature! But there they failed. Things aren't any better, they're only getting worse. Thus, whatever difficulties might rise before Israel, no matter what their source or character, the day of the Red Sea is always, whether in the Psalms or the prophets, the point to which the heart of an instructed Israelite turned. The same thing pervades the New Testament. Look at authority in the world, or at that which pertains to man, or at the resources of nature: a man brings the vouchers of One who was sovereign over every domain. A falsehood of such dimensions no believer in Christ can allow for a single moment. For we must ever remember that He who showed Himself then as Jehovah was, no doubt, the One whom we know as the Son of God. Clarke's Commentary. It is said that Jehovah met and sought to kill him. . Give nature its place, and what belongs to it; but always maintain the superiority of grace in order to do so. They must fight; but victory turns on the one who is pleading for them on the hill. It is often so! Here then having the typical redemption of Israel from Egypt the greatest and fullest type of it in the Old Testament, immediately after (without even allowing a single chapter to intervene) we hear of God glorious in holiness, as well as of a habitation prepared for Him. If this calculation for the whole population of the States be in any degree near the truth, it cannot be doubted that in particular districts the period of doubling from procreation only has often been less than fifteen years. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." Pharaoh had no fear of Yahweh and no concern for Yahwehs people. God has just left it, as He always knows how to do left what was of Himself to tell its own tale, whilst that which was not of Himself is before the spiritual judgment of those who have confidence in Him. (Exodus 10:21-29) The sovereign who derived his name from the sun availed nothing for all the land of Egypt, while the darkness which might be felt was made visible in its source by the light which all the children of Israel had in their habitations. There might be unreadiness on their part, but He at any rate was able to make good all He had promised. He was called Gershom, which means this "a stranger here.". Note: Thus, even in the light of this type of exegesis, which we nevertheless believe is secondary to that given under (a) above, it is clear enough that all references to "the divine new name"[25] are absolutely in error. Hence man gives himself up to unbelief, and then God may either at that or a later time, according to His own wisdom, seal up a person in a judicial hardness which is a distinct positive act on God's part. "Why did You send me? . But the Pharaoh, rather than releasing them, only increased the burdens and the severity of their slavery.Until the children of Israel started really getting on Moses' case saying, "Why didn't you leave us alone? It is well known what the ox and the sheep were in their eyes. It was to spoil their oppressors by divine authority, and no question whatever of deceit or dishonesty. How many sorrows are thus escaped! 78 likes, 0 comments - RCCG Public Relations (@rccg_pr) on Instagram: "RCCG Ministers' Conference 2020 Theme: Wonderful Day 1 Bible text: 2 Kings 13:14 Preacher . What Does the Word Exodus Mean? A God performing what he had promised, and so inspiring confidence in his promises. "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn." The following solutions to the problem have been proposed: In defense of this punctuation, we may say that it is certainly as "inspired" as that of any of the critics who would like to punctuate it in order to make a contradiction here of other Biblical texts. He will also bring them into the land which he swore to give to their fathers (Exodus 6:8). 1750. Hence, when He calls Moses to draw near, He first of all proclaims Himself the God of his fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This was the sharper a blow as immediately before Pharaoh went back even from his promise of three days' absence, Moses had pleaded the inexpediency of their sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes. Moses came to this place of challenge. "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. "[26] "The apparent meaning of this passage (as improperly punctuated) cannot therefore be its true meaning."[27]. Moses had certainly been hasty; and the Lord judged it. The self-same principle applies to hundreds of passages in the Scriptures; and therefore it seemed well to make a few remarks in a more general shape. The reason why a man finds it hard to put the two truths together is that he trusts himself and not God, and this because he wants to be free from the restraints of His will and word. How many victims fell now! Who's governing over these things? "But during the Mosaic period the characteristic name of God was to be the LORD, the meaning of which was first revealed to Moses himself (Exodus 3:13-15). In the history of the creation, God is never called Jehovah till the heavens and the earth were finished, Genesis 2:4. What an absurd inference it would be that the term "Father" had never been known before? Nevertheless God would give at least a partial accomplishment in him that was the type of Christ. Need I add that we have a better than Moses, who requires neither Aaron nor Hur to support His arm in interceding for us? That you might relate to God in the closest kind of intimate relationship as a Father with His child; that you might boldly come into His presence, that you might receive mercy in your time of need.It's funny sometimes when people come into the office to see me. Here He was ready for His part to accomplish. Both appear to be used in the New Testament, as is familiar to us, if one of them is more prominent in the Old. Next, the seventh plague (Exodus 9:13-35), hail with thunder and consuming fire, drew from Pharaoh the confession of his sin and a promise to let the people go, broken by him as soon as Jehovah heard the intercession of Moses. "Oh this is your family, Charles. Thus Aaron and his sons had no such duty in the Passover, as we find in the extraordinary temple celebration recorded in2 Chronicles 30:5; 2 Chronicles 30:5. He remembered his covenant when he heard the cry of the Israelites in Egyptian bondage (Exodus 6:5). There was no kind of communion, I need hardly say: nevertheless they bowed to that which they had so stubbornly opposed before. The threat of the locusts to eat what remained from the hail brought Pharaoh's servants to their senses; but on the demand of Moses that all should go, old and young, children and cattle, to keep their feast to Jehovah (not a word of three days now), they are driven out from before the king, and the eighth blow falls all over the land. See Isaiah 28:12. They, at this point, were so discouraged because of these things the Egyptians were laying upon them. 251.]. This was the first announcement that was meant to act on the soul of Moses, and of course in due time on Israel. From God's name, Jehovah, Exodus 6:2; Exodus 6:3. Israel must leave now. *"Another duplicate account," says Dr. D. (Introd. "He that prophesieth", Paul said, "let him prophesy according to his portion of faith"( Romans 12:6 ). By my name Jehovah was I not known to them. The constantly repeated use of the names Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in contexts where this name is mentioned proves that who the sacred author was referring to here was that same JEHOVAH who was the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. I will rid you. If Moses met face to face with God, why, later, was he not allowed to see God's face? . He gives him further instructions, that both he and the people of Israel might be encouraged to hope for a glorious issue of this affair. I told you you would get neither law nor justice in this place." Who's in control? How then could Israel escape? Grace is then no more grace, but only a vain pretension the flippant use of words without power. 65) that "the Israelites did not listen to Moses at first for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. Moses, I am the Lord." Undoubtedly hardening there is. When held thus in faith it becomes a most practical test for souls; for nothing should be said or done in that assembly but what is suitable to God's dwelling-place. 3. *It is a fair question, which has perplexed translators and commentators in ancient as well as modern times, what is meant by the Hebrew word translated "harnessed" (with the marginal alternative "five in a rank") in verse 18. O. T. i. I will bring you into the land of Canaan, and I will give it to you. 3. 340. l. 47. What is the explanation? It was no doubt thus that God was about to work in the midst of Israel. But man left to himself invariably refuses the testimony of God. They speak of a person perhaps as "not happy; but at any rate he is saved." The words should be read interrogatively, for the negative particle lo, not, has this power often in Hebrew. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. The Israelite's own proud spirit was ready to insinuate pride in others. p. 225, 277. With a strong hand, that is, being forced to it by a strong hand, he shall let them go. Thus they failed in faith to sanctify Jehovah before Israel. Pharaoh, his host and his chariots, all the flower of Egypt were there drawn up and ready to devour the poor children of Israel. 3. The bearing of this on the Christian is most evident. He never did before. The fact is, both are true, and this is just another instance of the importance of not taking up particular views of scripture, but of being guided and formed in our thoughts by all scripture. Moses saw an amazing sight: a bush which burns with actual fire, but which is not consumed by the flames. As the name JEHOVAH signifies existence, it may be understood in the text in question thus: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by my name God Almighty, or God All-sufficient, i.e., having all power to do all good; in this character I made a covenant with them, supported by great and glorious promises; but as those promises had respect unto their posterity, they could not be fulfilled to those fathers: but now, as JEHOVAH, I am about to give existence to all those promises relative to your support, deliverance from bondage, and your consequent settlement in the promised land.". When we forget that He is the Lord, then we fall into that category that Paul was referring to in Romans chapter one. How this was arrested is a most instructive lesson, but it will be found later on in this book. ", "According toExodus 6:2; Exodus 6:2, etc., Moses received his divine commission to deliver the people out of bondage in Egypt. 2 God also said to Moses, "I am the Lord. 2. We have no real reason to doubt that men heard it from the beginning. Nevertheless, says He, "I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Bishop Colenso (part 1, chap. Indeed, it is one of those feasts that are never to cease while souls are to be saved. We must never forget the ways in which God has acted before if we are to appreciate what He is doing now: and, in point of fact, our value for and intelligence of these things will be found to go together. That which ought to have been for refreshment as well as for purifying becomes the sign of death life no longer in the body. JFB "though the name was ancient, and known to the patriarchs, its full meaning was not known to them, and so God was not manifested to them by it.". p. 225, 277. Again, after that plague of blood bad run its course in vain for seven days, that of frogs rose up from the streams, rivers, and ponds, and the land was covered with these actively disgusting objects, as the waters had shocked and sickened them before. The Authorised Version gives the sense. At the same time it is never God who makes man an unbeliever. It was not merely what God was going to perform. Group of emerging economies calls for rebalancing of the world order. I can tell you, "When I consider the heavens", David said, "the work of Thy fingers"( Psalms 102:25 ). Why? And is there anything that more beautifully shows the character of scripture than this? The free gift of the Spirit of God to us in our thirst and weariness depends simply on Christ suffering for us Christ coming under judicial dealing, the rod of God as applied to that rock. But I've never seen him again. There is nothing therefore that can hinder a soul from being the object of the most real love to God except the persistent rejection of Himself. p. 190, 5th edition. It may have been, and probably was, after the sons of Israel left Egypt, as it throughout supposes the feast already instituted. "These are they", well verse twenty-six. Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. It was impossible to deny the peculiarity of some of the plagues. This exegesis is supported by scholarly opinion of the very highest rank. All this evinces the absolute command of all circumstances by God, but in His servant's hands, and in favour of His people. The die is cast for the remainder of the events narrated in the Pentateuch." First, let it be understood that the patriarchs DID know God by the name Jehovah. The Son of God, the Lord Jesus, the promised Seed, must come, if there was to be the making all the promises of God yea and amen in Him. We wish you would've left us alone." But inExodus 3:1; Exodus 3:1, etc., he received it in Midian. 788. This Moses in measure understood; for faith always sees it, and holds to it just so far as it is faith. We are here in the place where we may, alas! We wait for nothing except Christ Himself in actual person to take us above. At the same time remember this caution here, my brethren; and it seems to be a wholesome thought ever to bear in mind. And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by. p. 189. "[12] Regarding the conjunction here (but in the ASV and and in Clark's rendition), it is not in the Hebrew at all either way and is merely supplied by the translator. This of necessity would recall to Moses the special manner in which He made Himself known to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob as the Almighty God. It was the unworthy dealing of his brethren which broke up all hope for the present. God explained to Moses that He would indeed deliver Israel out of Egypt in spite of the discouragement that Moses had encountered so far. Yet nothing is like it for simplicity and accessibility. I appeared . but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them; which he had in the preceding verse called himself by. This is alone marked out and secured for us by Him who came down from heaven. In the next part of the book of Exodus is a change of the greatest magnitude; but we shall find also that God never forgets His own people. Saturnal. Next time you think that that mountain that you have in front of you is maybe too big for God to move, get up at about four o'clock, three-thirty, and look out into the western sky and look at the constellation Orion. If you have an excess in your life, this is the time for it to go down the drain. Aaron's rod of priestly grace from before Jehovah), and he and Aaron to speak to the rock before the eyes of the people, when it should give forth water. He wants to have that kind of relationship. Take a careful look at the left shoulder of Orion, that's Betelgeuse. With Reuben and Simeon his first two sons, it lists just the names of the sons of Reuben and Simeon as they are in Genesis. (Exodus 8:1-15) How humbling this second judgment must have been to a people who included frogs among their sacred animals to see them, an object of detestation, crowd their houses, and beds, and ovens, and kneading-troughs! "Now Moses didn't want to go in the first place. "L" stands for . The omnipotence of God means refuge for the people of God. It was so with Pharaoh, and his is a typical case, the permanent warning in the New Testament, as it is the first specified instance in the Old It is the one which the apostle Paul quotes for this purpose. It is sweet to see these analogies; because in one respect there can scarcely be two volumes more different than the Old Testament and the New Testament; but just as clearly there is everywhere the same mind, and the same source God Himself dealing with a different subject, but the same God no matter what He deals with. They came in. This then is brought before us here with the utmost possible care; as the Spirit of God gives immense scope to the allusions elsewhere. He says, "I am not eloquent" one wonders that he took so long to find it out. This he entirely declines. Moses had been trying what he could do, and could effect nothing. I get discouraged because that mountain looks so big, and I come to God with sort of timidity. as of 1915), The words here rendered, "I was not known unto them," are a mistranslation. It was for the purpose of having the full power of Satan brought out against His people that He might demolish it for ever. God then sent a testimony to Pharaoh, as He does to everyone in some form or another. In the eyes of the Israelites, Moses first meeting with Pharaoh was a disaster. For instance, the gift of prophecy. He omits to notice the true cause of diversity in the description difference of authorship. 5 min read. Sometimes things turn into total chaos, and we're prone to challenge again our calling. The disciples, when they came to the Lord with, they had a heavy problem, they said, "O Lord. These are they which spake to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron ( Exodus 6:26-27 ). The very magicians themselves owned themselves defeated; for whatever they might do with their enchantments at first, they were soon silenced. 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Now, it is in the light of that background that the rendition here of Exodus 6:3, making it say, "By my name Jehovah, I was NOT known to them!" Exodus 6:3 Meaning and Commentary Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name] of God Almighty * It has been well remarked that it is as connected with this we have the Sabbath introduced, type of the rest of God. Moses soon brings forward his difficulties and objections. The latter statement is perfectly fictitious. But when we begin to be subject to the truth, instead of getting up technical theology, when we look into that which is divine, not the mere science that man has made of it to the utter havoc of its bloom and beauty, when we search into the word of God, we then see and enjoy its perfection. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Go in, and speak unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. You know, and we need to remember that. Whereas, it is a fact that the patriarchs most assuredly DID know God by that name! And He said, "They've not known me by my name Jehovah, you're gonna know me in a closer, more intimate way." So He started out by saying, "I am", and then He threw in all these "I wills", and He comes back to, "I am".Now a promise is usually just as good as the person making it. Here then Jehovah says, "I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. A magistrate, who was as much an honour to his function as he was to human nature, immediately said, "Here, constable! Exodus 6:3 Context. What exists was called into being, and may pass out of it, if God so please. . The type or principle of this we have here for the first time when Moses says "this day" and speaks about the salvation of Jehovah; and again, later on in the chapter, "Jehovah saved Israel." 4. w Cornelius Labeo de oraculo Apoll. The Israelites who were not circumcised in the wilderness could not have found work for Aaron and his sons; for that rite was the basis for all the rest, and yet it was certainly neglected there and then. Noldium, No. By the time they go, he's gonna be glad to see them gone. This is inExodus 16:1-36; Exodus 16:1-36. But Jehovah, in the beginning ofExodus 6:1-30; Exodus 6:1-30, speaks to Moses once more when he returns,* and says, "Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. How Satan loves to challenge any exercise of the gifts of the Spirit. But not so. Those men, Israels ancestors, knew that God was the Almighty, the one who created and controls all things and who is fully able to fulfil all his promises; but they had never experienced his character as the covenant Redeemer, the one who would save them from slavery according to the promise given to Abraham (Genesis 15:13-14). The last of these chapters that I would now notice is the typical picture of the scene of glory; and there too is seen the Gentile in singular prominence Jethro eating bread with the elders of Israel. When we consider "what does Exodus mean?" we reach the book's core theme. It has been ascertained that Exodus 17:2-7 is Jehovistic; while Numbers 20:1-13 contains portions of different documents." It wants but little thought and reflection for a person to understand that each of them is not only quite just, but that they are both thoroughly compatible and harmonious. The latter account is very different. Thus, even supposing with Ussher, Clinton, and others that the 430 years date from the call of Abram, and that just half this period, or 215 years, can strictly apply to the stay in Egypt, the objection is utterly irrational. If you don't smoke until you're twenty-one, I'll give you a gold watch." (2.) He had said, "Oh Lord, please call somebody else." 2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. The point of both histories is absolutely lost for those who fail to see a contrast in them, instead of both having grown out of one. Great humiliation! One of the most salient features of the book of Genesis is the variety in which the Holy Spirit has set forth the various principles on which God deals, the ways in which He manifests Himself, the special foreshadowings of the Lord Jesus, and this not only in respect to man but Israel and even the church in type. * Christ's blood has purchased the whole world with every soul and every other creature in it. From his covenant: I have established my covenant,Exodus 6:4; Exodus 6:4. God was now about to present Himself as the unchanging One that could and would accomplish His word according to the relation in which He and His people stood. (y) Apud Euseb. l. 1. c. 18. (u) Antiqu. "And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, As God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them.". The antiquity of the name itself appears(1) from its derivation, which is from the obsolete havah, a form already in the time of Moses superseded by hayah; (2) from its occurrence in some of the most ancient documents inserted by Moses into the Book of Genesis, e.g., Exodus 2:4; Exodus 2:3-4; Exodus 11:1-9, &c.; (3) from its employment by Abraham as an element in a name (Genesis 22:14). For, before the historian gives the decisive answer of Jehovah which removed all further hesitation on the part of Moses, and completed . Let us remember this. "Who when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God" ( Romans 1:21 ). And remember that this is not a mere exceptional fact. When Moses was at his wit's end, wishing he had staid in Midian, rather than have come to Egypt to make bad worse--when he was quite at a loss what to do--Then the Lord said unto Moses, for the quieting of his mind, "Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh (Exodus 6:1; Exodus 6:1); now that the affair has come to a crisis, things are as bad as they can be, Pharaoh is in the height of pride and Israel in the depth of misery, now is my time to appear." It was under the name Jehovah that God visited Abraham (Genesis 18:13,17). [Note: See Kaiser, "Exodus," p. (Matthew 7:10). This not only increased the suffering of the Israelites but also caused them to turn against Moses. Holiness in Scripture is as much made to depend on redemption as God's being able righteously to come and dwell in our midst. From the late census made in America, it appears that taking all the states together, they have still continued to double their numbers every twenty-five years; and as the whole population is now so great as not to be materially affected by the emigrations from Europe, and as it is known that, in some of the towns and districts near the sea coast, the progress of population has been comparatively slow, it is evident that in the interior of the country in general the period of doubling from procreation only must have been considerably less than twenty-five years." Being that the full moon is in truth-seeking and philosophical Sagittarius, we can . take that woman and lodge her in Bridewell, that she may know there is some law and justice in this place.". We consider their testimony on this point irrefutable. A most astonishing thing it might seem at first sight, that after having been thus blessed, the first thing the people find is a wilderness where there is no water; and that, when they do come to water, it is so bitter that they cannot drink it. The whole revelation occurs within the statements "I am the LORD" (Exodus 6:2; Exodus 6:8) which formalize it and further stress the certainty of these promises. God makes both true in Christ of the believer; but purchase is unlimited, as an examination of the Greek Testament will convince any soul who reads the word of God with a subject spirit; while redemption has its defined objects. God could not pass over that. Hence it will be found that in the doctrine of the New Testament there is never the allowance of such a thought as that salvation is only the beginning of the blessing. 1817.) It's glorious to have a close, intimate relationship with God, to know Him by that name Jehovah where He becomes to me all that I need.Now they had not really appropriated that fullness of God that He wants to be to His people. May we delight in all He has given us! It is an equal error to suppose that God hardens a person when He first sends a testimony as to deny that He does harden after His testimony has been refused. However, this seems to us impossible of acceptance. They must not be disheartened even by the growing troubles of the children of Israel. Note the repetition of the phrase "I will" seven times in these verses, emphasizing the fact that God would certainly do this for Israel. By redemption I mean not merely a price paid to purchase us that we may belong to God (this indeed is not the proper import of the word), but rather in its precise meaning this too that God has broken the power of the adversary, ransoming and freeing us for Himself. The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness when His judgments are in the earth, and will then know with Jethro that Jehovah is greater than all gods, for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly [judgment came] upon them. How then can it be said that by his name JEHOVAH he was not known unto them? But we are now in the place where all this is put in fact to the test; and the only power to sweeten what is bitter is by bringing in Christ. I know, I heard, and I have remembered My covenant.". This passage has been a sort of crux criticorum, and has been variously explained. 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I need help." Undoubtedly the place was significant, as well as the effect; for when he took it out again, his hand was leprous as snow the well-known type of sin, at least in its defiling character if not in the powerlessness to which it reduces man. And because the history of the children of Israel is typical history, and it typifies the child of God coming out of bondage through the Red Sea, baptism, into a new relationship of faith with God in the wilderness and on in through the death of the old life, and the old self into the land of promise, a life of richness and fullness; we can take these "I wills" of God to Israel and we can apply them to our own lives as God is promising. Thus the dwelling of God amongst His people is revealed immediately after we have the express type of redemption. He's going to make you question the call of God upon your life. "[15] This would mean that Moses, having learned the "new name" put it into the mouths of characters who lived centuries earlier. (Chap. Such was exactly the state of things in the land of Egypt. Some of you may know Him as the Almighty God, the Creator of the heaven and the earth. We are meant to take notice that now we can speak of "salvation," not before. But he was right in the main; and the Lord accordingly left not to another but to him the due accomplishment of Israel's deliverance when the fulness of time was come. They knew Him as the Almighty God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Christ Himself is the manna of the people of God. There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. Next the difference of description is not only not inconsistent, but most natural in the circumstances respectively. What beauty can they trace in that which has been occupying us? Take comfort. There is no such thought as that they had no right involved in the matter. There were other requisitions on God's part which showed that this had another and an infinitely more solemn character than the preceding plagues. It is by confounding the scriptures that men misunderstand them: if we would indeed enter into the real force of God's word, it must always be by distinguishing the things that differ. to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. That Satan is going to do his best to discourage us right at the beginning of any ministry. Hence, whether on a great scale or in individual dealings of God, nothing can be more certain than that there is such an action on His part. "I have been a stranger in a strange land," is the word of comment that is made upon him. Nay, they were ever ready to turn aside to reproach Himself, to slander His servants, and to abandon His will. This occupies the first chapter. It is plain that the infliction of lice or gnats, if either be the meaning of the term at any rate a loathsome insect which made life almost intolerable to man and beast was particularly humiliating to Egypt. God, in short, states things exactly as they are. God proceeded to remind Moses of His promises to the patriarchs and to reveal more of Himself by expounding one of His names. When we come together as His assembly, should we not remind ourselves that we are not only members of the body of Christ, but God's habitation through the Spirit? And so He does. Allusions are made in it to a time considerably after the song is said to have been first sung; for example in the seventeenth verse . May the Lord then grant us unfeigned and growing confidence in all that which He is! Is it not humbling? He's not gonna listen to me." Why did You ask me to do it Lord? But yet people sometimes have that sort of, "Oh Chuck", like, something, though it really isn't. Note, God take notice of the increase of his people's calamities, and observes how their enemies grow upon them. Exodus 6:3 ESV I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. If God sent him, what had that to do with the matter? "He cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. God was there as a Judge, dealing with man's sin. in meaning the same as "heavy of mouth" in Exodus 4:10. Thus it is a complete deliverance from all that can be brought against us; not a going through the world with hope of protective mercy, which is the notion of man, but a complete victory over the foe present and future. A God perfecting what he had begun, and finishing his own work. But the resource was at hand. "During the patriarchal period the characteristic name of God was God Almighty (Exodus 6:3; see, for example, Genesis 17:1), the usual translation of the Hebrew El Shaddai, which probably literally means God, the Mountain One. That phrase could refer to the mountains as Gods symbolic home (see Psalms 121:1), but it more likely stresses His invincible power and might. They were so cast down with their late disappointment that they did not believe him. For there was not one quality in the people which could in anywise move the heart towards them except their misery not one worthy moral feeling, not one generous emotion, not the smallest care for the glory of God. * It is a matter, perhaps, too well known to need many words, that every woman was simply to ask of her neighbour, etc., vessels of silver and of gold, with raiment, which were to be put on Israel's sons and daughters.
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