Now one of these days very soon God's gonna demonstrate His glory in the clouds again, as Jesus comes with clouds and great glory, demonstrating His glory in the clouds. They never were in greater alarm than after they had partaken of the paschal feast; but that alarm was used of God to show the total inability of Israel to cope with the difficulty. Where all was morally glorious, there is nothing finer than this. Exodus All the other elements are exaggerated by the objector, the number of the lambs requisite, as well as the degree of haste, which affected scarce anything but their bread, as otherwise they stood ready for their move, which they were fully expecting. would trust him, and walk in the law of faith or no, whether they could live from hand to mouth, and (though now uneasy because their We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our Exodus. This showed that it was not produced by natural causes, and that it was There was nothing the people and even at last the king of Egypt were not disposed to concede: later on in spite of all their own interests in the retention of the children of Israel, they were willing and desirous that they should go, and that they should not go away empty. So he's emphasizing that point to them. The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matthew 4:4. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. The only exceptions concerned the Sabbath, their weekly day of rest. The flesh of the lamb was to be eaten not raw or sodden, but roast with fire, the strong and evident sign of fierce unsparing divine judgment It must and ought to be so; for herein Christ's death met our sins and God's judgment. 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an can only explain the fact by assuming that two sorts of manna are meant; what he calls air-manna and tree-manna. any cause given them to murmur and find fault with their provisions, and whether they and their seed after them had not a Thus it was when our Lord Jesus was here, and the presence of the Spirit, instead of preventing, confirmed it. cognizance of their necessity, which was the occasion of their murmuring; as a just and holy God, he took cognizance of their base But then what follows this is not the Sabbath, but conflict with the enemy. II. great deal of reason gratefully to won God's goodness to them. "Posterity shall see the bread," says God, That they should preserve a pot of it for a 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. There was nothing incredible to his mind in the rate of increase assigned to Israel in Goshen, supporting it by a reference to Dr. "Short's New Observations on Bills of Mortality, p. 259, 8vo. The comforts of the Spirit are hidden manna, Revelation 2:17. case it should fail next day), putrefied, and bred worms, and became good for nothing. 4. And Moses said, Let no man leave of it until the morning ( Exodus 16:15-19 ). nothing over, and he who gathers little has no lack. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son" (this was the beginning), "much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life." see Deut 8 3, He fed thee with manna, that thou mightest know that man doth not live by We have what belongs to heaven while we are here. Nevertheless let none suppose that this is said in the smallest disrespect of Moses not so, but for our own profit and instruction, and to guard us lest we should enact the same part with even less excuse; for God has set before us the wavering of a servant so faithful for the express purpose of guarding ourselves from the like or other failures. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. v. 8, 12. so far undervalue their deliverance that they wish they had died in Egypt, nay, and died by the hand of the Lord too, that is, by some It was a day for just total rest and relaxation. And here comes in another principle of immense importance. That they should expect He has done his part. These people were hungry, and so they said, "It would have been better off for us to have died back in Egypt by those flesh pots with a full stomach, full of bread, than out here in this wilderness to starve do death. All these things we learn in due time as they were known to Him before He began. It was meant to be an image of that which was then presented to the spirit of Moses a bush in a desert burning but unconsumed. Verses 32-34. He counts on faith in His own people; but they will always reckon that whatever there may be of good is from Him whatever may be wrong is surely not so. Mr. Malthus, who had no bias in favour of the Bible, will be allowed to speak on this subject. heaven, John 6 32. When the king haughtily refused, and increased their oppression, God gave His servant a still fuller revelation of Himself for the people, now utterly cast down, and a commission in Egypt more peremptory armed not with signs only but judgments on their oppressors and the demand now was for an absolute departure of Israel. 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. Moses. manna by which our souls are nourished, Matt 4 4. And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land The effect of the one is that the enemy has no longer the slightest claim to us, or power over us; the effect of the other is that the Lord has a perfect right to us in every particular. Moses tells Aaron to preserve some manna in a jar, so that future generations will see how God sustained the people in the wilderness. Joshua (who always represents Christ acting by the Spirit) fought and won, while Aaron and Hur held up the heavy hands of Moses on the top of the hill. Had one and the same author described this extraordinary food of the Israelites, he would not have presented such varying accounts. Moses and they must know it. See how constant the care of Providence is; seedtime and harvest fail Spiritual Meaning of EXODUS 16:32-34 previous - next - text - summary - Exodus - BM Home - Full Page. so, and gathered, some more, some less. morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. 22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth We are continuing our study through the ten words this morning, the words that God spoke to Israel and wrote with His own finger. Now this is the thing which the LORD has commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer [And we don't know how much that was.] As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept. We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our opportunities, which if we let slip, it may be too late to gather. As then the living streams flowed, so the Holy Ghost, we know, was not given till Christ was glorified as the result of redemption. See here the folly of hoarding. Exodus. God is the one who has placed me here, unless I've been disobedient to Him. Such a purulent eruption baffled their scrupulous avoidance of impurity. (v. 19), but let them learn to go to bed and sleep quietly, though they have not a The jar was later placed in the ark of the covenant together with Aarons rod and the stone tablets on which the law was written (31-36; see Hebrews 9:4). But it is well to note at the end of the chapter the omer of manna laid up before Jehovah for the generations of Israel, which Aaron laid up before the Testimony. How came it that God's glory was forgotten in that which ought to have been ever prominent to a father's heart? They were particularly suited in the wisdom of God to humble Egypt. If the firstborn of an animal could not be sacrificed, it must like man's firstborn be redeemed. - As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. They cannot deny that there is all possible difference between the reddish tint of the Nile for some weeks in June, without one of these consequences as compared with so severe a blow in or about January on the river of their pride and idolatry, which had seen the cruel death of Israel's male children. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. In the face of this, when enslaved to him, redemption was the putting forth of God's own power in Christ in a way suitable to His majesty and holiness, in which not a single claim was left unsettled, not a single requisite was not answered, not a single sin of man but was judged, yet all and every quality in God was honoured, and we are brought out triumphant and free. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hoar frost on the ground. laws of nature are sufficient to effect whatever he intended to bring about in the history of redemption." And Moses said, This is the word which Jehovah hath commanded, Fill an omer with it to be kept for your generations, to the end that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. He convinces them of the evil of their C. To test them, to see whether they would obey his law or not. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. It was to spoil their oppressors by divine authority, and no question whatever of deceit or dishonesty. And Moses was angry with them. . Here He was ready for His part to accomplish. It is plain therefore, that salvation requires and involves not only the death but the life of Christ; that salvation supposes not merely guilt removed through His blood, but ourselves maintained, and to be brought through all difficulties, past, present, and future. *The unbelief expressed in Dr. D.'s Introd. reflect upon God by it; men are but God's hand. The Gentile will unfeignedly rejoice for all the goodness Jehovah will have done to Israel, delivering them from the hand of all enemies from first to last. were thus reproved. "/> 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. It is said (v. 21), When the sun waxed hot, it melted; as if (Exodus 4:1-31) The attention of Moses is drawn to what was in his hand a rod which, when cast on the ground, became a serpent. Genesis 3:15 GOD'S WORD Translation (GW) 15 I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. It was impossible to deny the peculiarity of some of the plagues. THE ARK OF THE COVENANT THE PRESENCE EXODUS 2510-16 INTRODUCTION The tabernacle is all about the presence of the Lord The Lord God of. It is clear that salvation here is not simply that a person is purged from guilt, but the real application of Christ's work in all its fulness; only that we have it not yet for our bodies. And then Moses speaks, and says, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee.". Such is the known significance of blood symbolically in scripture. It is all a vain thing to deny that which is right according to the order of nature. Then Moses finds another difficulty. The author boldly says, "The Song of Moses in the fifteenth chapter was not written by Moses himself It is a Palestinian production. . Consequently for this various development of the truth there is no book in scripture so remarkable as the very first of the Pentateuch: In fact, in a general way we may say that all the other books take up special truths, which are at any rate in the germ presented there. This is alone marked out and secured for us by Him who came down from heaven. The whole congregation, the greatest part of them, joined in this mutiny; it was not immediately against God that they murmured, but And, besides this, here are two things mentioned, which he intended to teach them by sending them manna:[1.] We have the type of Christ; we have Israel in their proper place and order; we have the Gentile represented there. The Testimony - See the marginal references. You just want to feed them before you talk to them, really. It properly expresses a monster which might be, I presume amphibious, not certainly confined like a fish, still less like a whale, to the waters, nor confined to the land like a serpent. God, upon this occasion, said to Thus they must live upon daily providence, as the Throughout the word of God there are two standing types of sin. of the first month, a month's provisions, which, by the fifteenth day of the second month, was all spent; and here we have. The rod is the symbol of authority; it may also represent chastening. rulers, before Moses had declared that it was done with a regard to the sabbath, if they had not had some knowledge of the sabbath He was not disobedient. It is only to be read in the light of Christ and of God's revelations about Him: all then is clear and plain. 236, 237) seem to me the wantonness of incredulity, which, irritated by the divine authority of Scripture, yields to the merest calumny. Note, When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we Even though there are similarities between these secretions and the manna, the differences are more numerous and point to a unique provision. Do we as Christians quarrel with such matters? After this is proved, abundant refreshment is given. The repetition of the work of humiliation is uncalled for. There might be unreadiness on their part, but He at any rate was able to make good all He had promised. Thus they failed in faith to sanctify Jehovah before Israel. Let us be thankful then for all that which commends itself to us as true and of God, but never assume that we have apprehended the whole truth. If walking out on the sabbath to seek for food was thus reproved, walking out on that day purely to find our own 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; . As He never loses sight of its need, so we never can make light of it without loss to our souls. of things necessary to the life that now is, that we may apply ourselves the more closely to the one thing needful. We come to greater precision here. Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 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. For this the text not only gives no ground but furnishes its unequivocal disproof. Because the people lusted, this food was sent in anger to destroy them. they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. Ellison, pp. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 . The care God graciously took for their supply. Then said the LORD to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not ( Exodus 16:4 ). May we delight in all He has given us! 3 and said to them, 'Why did we not die at . If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 20:16. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." What does "the Testimony" refers to? They gathered it every morning, and every man according to his eating: and when the sun was waxed hot, it melted. The very same. If this is the explanation, it was a miracle similar to the plagues, not totally unknown phenomena but divinely scheduled and reinforced. the seventh day, expecting to find manna (v. 27); but they found none, for those Exodus. God tells Moses about the people's rebellion and calls on Moses to check on the people. O. T. i. "I know that he can speak well. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. So Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings. The laws and orders concerning the manna. IV. In these repeated strokes we find then God dealing with the gods as well as with the men and habits of Egypt. The Lord evermore give us this bread! The "testimony" was the tables of the Mosaic Law that Aaron later kept in the ark of the covenant (cf. He led him about, he instructed him (Deut 32 10); and, as to this instance, Never was there such an open house kept as As for the second book, Exodus, there is one grand idea which pervades it redemption The consequences of redemption, as well as the circumstances in which it was accomplished, are brought before us in a very full and complete manner, as we shall see. " This is a war which must be without intermission maintained by His people; but it is Jehovah's war. more or less infected, which disorders a luxurious diet would have made contagious. 2. That is, before the ark of the testimony; when that was made, From this time on till they entered Canaan, their regular food would be a flake-like substance that they had never seen before. *It is alleged that there is "a double description of the manna inExodus 16:11; Exodus 16:11, etc., and Numbers 11:7-9. The consequence was that his wife had to take a sharp stone and execute the work herself. The psalmist sets forth at full length the distinction which pseudo-criticism would destroy; and this too in such a way as to prove that they are but cases out of many facts which fall under the principles already indicated. (Compare Deuteronomy 26:5). Answer (1 of 9): The Ten Commandments are called the Testimony (Exodus 31:8), They testify to God's person and work, and to his expectations for Israel in His covenant relationship with them. He omits to notice the true cause of diversity in the description difference of authorship. 17 "You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. God said, "I have given you the Sabbath." Christ himself is the true manna, the bread of life, of which this was a figure, John 6 49-51. See what God designed in 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: Let every man gather of it as much as he will need, an omer for each person, according to the number of your persons; take it, every man for those in his tent. Why did he say this to Moses? 2 And the whole community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert. ", Evangelical commentators generally have felt that the manna was a substance unique from any other edible food (Exodus 16:31). They thought they reflected only upon Moses and Aaron, but here they are told that God was struck at through their sides. 2 The whole company of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron there in the wilderness. Does not scripture mean that there is? And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto the LORD: today you shall not find it in the field. Dr. D. says (Introd. In Exodus 16:33 (NASB) 33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put a full omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept safe throughout your generations." 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept. is covetously and distrustfully spared. 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he . For God is the one who has brought me to these circumstances. It is alleged by Dr. D. (Introd. of
If He thus dwells in us, is not this one of the capital truths which we are called to make good in our faith and practice day by day? Salvation always means a great deal more than that my sins are judged in the death of Christ. your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord. 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. It is also a matter of great importance to some commentators that the mention of the children of Israel and their coming into the borders of Canaan, and the continuation of the manna until that time is boldly ascribed to some later writer. 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. Their impatience, ingratitude, and distrust of God, were so much the worse in that they had lately The people soon forgot Gods goodness to them in giving them water, and complained against him again. The term principally derives from the Hebrew yaad, ud, anah [h"n'a] and Greek marturein [marturevw] word groups; Testimony would be classed as fact in the same way a commandment is. It is not merely a good hope of being delivered, but that the person himself by grace has no doubt about it. They must gather, every man 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, . to the Old Testament here for instance is astounding. As ever, man is quick to put the two things in opposition. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel did eat manna for forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came to the borders of Canaan. Thus the Passover has, above all, a fundamental and a permanent character beyond all other feasts. The feast which Ahasuerus made, We owe everything to Christ. Here too there is no excuse for a different author or document, as the codicil ofExodus 13:1-22; Exodus 13:1-22 is Jehovistic equally withExodus 12:1-51; Exodus 12:1-51, and adds the fresh thought of the sanctification to Jehovah of all the first-born in Israel, whether of man or of beast. 15 million Ukrainian are displaced by Russia's war. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded, 'Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.' " 17 The sons of Israel did so, and some gathered much and some little. 21 So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. The plagues were calculated to smite them most acutely in what constituted their religion. (1.) 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. Thus we belong to Him we are not our own, but His. Man probably would have preferred "I shall do;" but God takes His stand upon these weighty words, "I AM THAT I AM," the self-subsisting, ever-being One. Appointing them to rest The second call in Egypt is therefore not only a fact but necessary as an introduction to new dealings after Pharaoh despised Jehovah's claim according to the first call in Midian.
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