SHEMOT 34

1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

See Ex 33:22 The cleft rock representing the Abrahamic covenant

Another, and a "better covenant, established upon better promises" (Heb. 8:6), was being inaugurated while the old was passing into dissolution. The clouded heavens of the Mosaic Aion were broken through, by the "light of the Gospel of the glory of the Anointed One": and the opening up of the new and living way, for the covering of sin by the way of the cross.

This new covenant, was shadowed forth at Sinai: at the time of Moses' second ascent, with the two new tables of stone. There was represented to him, that in the breaking up of the first covenant, the true propitiatory would be found within the shelter, represented by the Cleft Rock, and the Name of Yahweh. For, around that rock, the goodness, the glory, the name, and the personal presence of Yahweh's messenger were representatively encircled.

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4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

... it is not impossible to see some miniature analogy to great dispensational events.

The original stones were divinely provided, as well as divinely inscribed. They were broken in anger at the end of the "thou-shalt-make" stage. They were replaced, not by a newly-created set of stones, angelically provided like the first, but by stones that Moses was directed to "hew" for himself and bring up for the writing.

The substituted stones were provided at the middle or ascension stage, when Moses went up to intercede for Israel; and they were brought down from the Mount in a finished state, on the occasion when the face of Moses shone, just before the "and-he-made" stage.

There is a parallel to these things discernible in the course events have taken in connection with the operations of the Lord's law among men, whether we take it racially or as regards His dealings with Israel. Racially, God "made man upright", as Solomon testifies (Eccles. 7:29); "very good", as Moses declares (Gen. 1:31). This involves the conclusion that He imparted to him the knowledge of His law: for, otherwise, he could not have been very good.

Whether the knowledge was imparted by inspiration or by oral instruction, the result was to write the law "not on tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Cor. 3:3). These tables of the heart were divinely provided in the creation of man, and divinely inscribed in the process of his enlightenment.

When apostasy occurred, they were thrown down and broken in the judgment that passed upon all men. Then by the prophet like unto Moses new tables are hewn from the old material, to be presented to the Father for the writing of the new name: that is, men and women from the condemned race are hewn into shape by the work of Christ through the apostles, and presented by them for the embroidering work of the spirit, which will so write itself into their nature as to be both a principle of physical incorruption and a power of mental conformity to the divine archetype in all things, and, therefore, a

"law written in their hearts".

The Adamic tables thus re-written will be handed down for law from God to the human race at the coming of Christ, whose countenance will be

"as the sun shining in his strength" (Rev. 1:16).

Law of Moses Ch 12

6 And Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh El, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

The manifestation of the Deity is not merely for habitation purposes, but for glory and dominion. This is indicated by "the Name," and "the Name of the City," or "New Name." Thus it is written in Psal. lxxix. 9, "Help us, 0 Elohim of our salvation, in the matter of the Glory of thy Name: and deliver us, and cover over our sins for the purpose of thy Name."

Moses styles it "the glorious and fearful Name, YAHWEH ELOHEKHAH"(Deut. xxviii. 58); concerning which David says in Psal. lxxii. 19, "Blessed be YAHWEH Elohim, the Elohim of Israel ... and blessed be the Name of his Glory for Olahm; yea, all the earth shall be filled with his glory."

The glory of the Deity is intellectual, moral, and physical, all of which is covered by his name, which expresses what he really is.

Thus, "His name is Jealous;" that is, "He is jealous;" "His name is holy;" that is, "He is holy;" and "His name is YAHWEH Tzavaoth;" that is, He who spoke to Jeremiah is He who shall be of armies, which is the meaning of the Name.

Thus, "the Name of the Deity" in scripture signifies every thing that He is as revealed therein.

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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.

It is an attribute of Yahweh's goodness to "keep mercy for thousands." These thousands for whom mercy is kept are "those who love him, and keep his commandments"—the Israel of God in the higher import of the phrase. The mercy kept for them is the chesed styled the berith olahm chasdai Dahwid, or Age-covenant mercies of David, rendered by Lowth "an everlasting covenant, the gracious promise made to David," which shall never fail.

These gracious promises, or loving-kindness, or mercy which Yahweh keeps for thousands, are based upon the chesed or mercy to Abraham, to which Mary and Zacharias refer in these words.

"He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever:"

"Yahweh hath raised up a horn of salvation for us (Israel) in the House of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, which have been from the beginning of the age: that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us: to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, that he would grant us (Israel) that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life."

The birth of Jesus was a proof that Yahweh remembered the mercy he had promised to Abraham and David. Jesus, the born king of the Jews, was the Horn or Power by which the nation is to be saved from all its enemies; he is therefore styled

"a horn of salvation for Israel."

He has not saved them yet. They are still subject to the Horns of the Gentiles, and have no part in their native land. So long as their condition remains as it is, the mercy promised to Abraham and David continues unfulfilled. The resurrection of Jesus, however, is the earnest that it will be accomplished in the appointed time; and that he will certainly deliver them from the tyrants "who destroy the earth." Hear this, ye infidels, who profess to love the Lord, but believe not what he saith,

"Behold, saith he, the days come that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem dwell safely: and this (is his name) which shall be proclaimed to her. The Lord our Righteousness—vezeh asher yiqurah lahh Yhwh Tzidkainu. For thus saith Yahweh; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the House of Israel: neither shall the Priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offering, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually."

This "good thing" is the subject-matter of the mercy promised to Abraham and David, which Yahweh, the fulfiller of promises, keepeth for thousands; and which is as certain to be communicated as that he exists, for "he magnifies his word above all his name."

That good thing in its details is abundantly spoken of by the mouth of all the Prophets through whom Yahweh hath kept alive the remembrance of it from the foundation of Israel's Commonwealth.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, Apr 1853

The apparent contradiction may be manifested thus: if god by no means clears the guilty, how can He be said to forgive any, seeing it is only the guilty that need forgiveness?

The answer is to be found in the sense attaching to the word "guilty" as used in this connection. It is not in the sense of having committed an offence merely, but in the sense of having done it with guile and without that acceptable repentance towards God, which is the basis of forgiveness and which secured the pardon of David in the most heinous of offences.

Achan may be taken as a type of the guilty that will not be cleared. He deliberately disobeyed a divine injunction through avarice, and made no confession of his sin till found out. Then he admitted the offence that was known and read of all men, but being emphatically "guilty," he was not cleared.

So Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and the man who blasphemed, and the son of the Egyptian woman who presumptuously broke the Sabbath law, were all specimens of the "guilty" whom God will by no means "clear," either under Moses or Christ. There is no provision for the remission of presumptuous sin. Even under the law, no sacrifice was to be accepted for such.

But for those who are not presumptuous, but who on the contrary are broken and contrite in heart, and tremble at Yahweh's word, there is forgiveness. The Mosaic service was one long and perpetually recurring illustration of God's desire to be approached in reconciliation of transgressors.

For all classes of offence (except offences of presumption), forgiveness was stipulated on confession and sacrifice. The offering accepted at the hands of Abel is proof that this dispensation of the goodness of God has been in force from the beginning. Its latest illustration exists in the fact stated by Paul, concerning the appearing of Christ in the flesh, that-

"God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them."

Seasons 1:76

14 For thou shalt worship no other El: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous El:

The Divine Name defines what the Eternal Spirit is in manifestation.

"Yahweh whose name is jealous is a jealous power."

Here "name" defines what exists. "The name of the wicked shall rot," that is, the glory, honour, power, substance, that exist, constituting the wicked and their attributes, shall perish. Hence, when the Eternal Spirit is fully manifested on earth according to His revealed purpose, that manifestation is "His Name," or the name of Ehyeh, the I-will-be manifestation of the Spirit.

This name was proclaimed to Israel by Moses in the formula so often quoted by the Jews in their controversy with the friends of Jesus, and with the Demons* also, who presume to cry out that they know that he is the anointed Son of God.

In Deut. 6:4, Moses says: Sh'ma Yisraail Yahweh Elohainu Yahweh ekhad.

..."Lord" and "God" do not express the sense of the original. As we have shown already, the word Yahweh or Ehyeh,(1) has not the remotest affinity to the English word "Lord." We must, therefore, reject the above, which are mere paraphrases or transformations, and translate the formula literally, that knowing what Moses really did say, we may be able to understand what he said.

And doubtless, it must be an important proclamation concerning the Invisible One, or he would not have called the attention of the whole nation of Israel to his words. The literal translation, then, is(2)

"Hear, 0 Israel! I WILL BE our MIGHTIES is One I will be!

This is the proclamation in plain English. There is no word in it which is not perfectly intelligible. It announces a Person who shall be; and if you ask Moses who that Person is, he tells you in Exod. 3:14-16, and 6:3, that the person who shall be is that same One who, four hundred and thirty years before was known to Abraham as the Strength of the Mighty Ones who visited him from time to time, and whose messenger appeared to himself in the bush.

This answer is equivalent to saying that the subject of the proclamation to Israel is "One who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Pantokrator,** or Strength of All."

He is while Moses makes the proclamation; He was in Abraham's time, and from an antecedent eternity; and He shall be when He comes as the Prophet like unto Moses. Nothing short of this can be educed from the words of Moses.

Had we lived in the days of Moses, speaking the Hebrew as our mother tongue, his proclamation would have created in us an expectation, that, at some future time, 'He', the Possessor of the Heavens and the Earth, the Most High, who admitted Abraham to His friendship, would appear in the midst of Israel; and that then, consequently, whatever His

name might be called, He would be lmma-nu-ail, "God with us."

*Jesus has left on record an infallible rule by which his friends may be distinguished from the Demons. The rule is expressed in his words, saying: "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you." "The Demons" is a phrase, in its application to that signifies those who believe that Jesus is the anointed Son of God, but "do not receive his words," nor do what he commands. This is not the only sense of the word but the sense in which it is used in this place, because the possessed of old confessed, but did not obey the truth. (Dr. Thomas)

** The Greek word, "Pantokrator," has been rendered Almighty in 2 Cor. 6:18, and frequently in the Apocalypse. It is derived from "pas," all, and "krateo" to hold, or to have strength; and thus signifies to exercise power or strength over all others; therefore "Almighty."

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