"Who when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God" ( Romans 1:21 ). Moses was told by Jehovah to put his hand in his bosom. . "[11] Clark's rendition of the whole sentence is: "And by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them? There he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them." It is not merely a good hope of being delivered, but that the person himself by grace has no doubt about it. 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. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 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. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." The principal Hebrew word in the clause means, "I-made-myself-known. On the other hand it is well known what all these ancient nations thought of the light of the sun, and how preternatural darkness (with light for Israel in Goshen) must have struck them. "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.". Thus we find the junction of Aaron with Moses, which has many important consequences, and some of them of a serious character, as this book records. He wants you to feel a perfect freedom of just coming in anytime even with the most trivial things. Clarii apud Macrob. Let them know that God would work according to what belongs exclusively to Him. 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. Note, First, Disconsolate spirits often put from them the comforts they are entitled to, and stand in their own light. Through silent meditation, exchanging of thoughts, or . For we know that Jesus was the Head of the kingdom, and that "Christ" is the title in which He takes His rights over Israel and their land, which will be in force in the day that is coming. 41. Thus, alongside the first plague (Exodus 7:15-25), they put the fact that Ehrenberg in 1823 saw the inlet of the Red Sea, near Sinai, stained a blood-red colour by cryptogamic plants. It is surely possible for a man to bear the name of a certain office or dignity before he fulfils any of its functions. In this section (chapters 3 and 4), God confronts Moses and appoints him to be the deliverer of Israel. NIV I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them. I look at that mountain in front of me and I think, "Oh, nothing can move that mountain." The very same. ., p. Porphyr. "The words should be read interrogatively, for the negative particle (not) often has this power in Hebrew. The local CBS News outlet was tipped off by a worker at the company's main San . Josephus u says, this name was not before made known to men, and that it was not lawful for a man to speak it; and this is the common notion of the Jews, that it is ineffable, and not lawful to be pronounced, and therefore they put Adonai and Elohim in the room of it, and the vowel points of these words to it, which is a false and superstitious notion: this name was known among the Heathens; it is the same with in the oracle of Apollo w; and Diodorus Siculus x says, that with the Jews Moses is said to give laws from a God called "IAO", and is the same which in Philo Byblius y is called Jevo; and both are no other than a corruption of Jah or Jehovah; and perhaps the of the Pythagoreans z, by which they swore, is the same with the tetragrammaton, or this word of four letters, with the Jews. 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. But there is more than this; for God takes care to utter another word: "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you." Because You haven't delivered them, and things are just worse. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land." a. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." 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. No one could be expected to believe this (if he did not look into the Bible and bow to the truth), that God could have written a whole book and never once have spoken of holiness before this. Then the Lord said unto Moses, 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 ( Exodus 6:1 ). He's going to make you question the call of God upon your life. Speaking of America, he remarks (ib. Take a careful look at the left shoulder of Orion, that's Betelgeuse. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. Hence there were not merely insects, or the elements brought in, but God employing a destroyer for the first-born of man and beast. Let us remember this. Such is redemption. The rationalist counts at least the first of these "a natural phenomenon of the country," the wonder being its origination by Aaron and the exemption of the Israelites. Not that there will not be the dwelling of God in the midst of His people by-and-by; but the peculiarity of our calling is, that we wait for none of our characteristic joys: we have all in Christ now by the power of the Spirit before we go to heaven. 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. "And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." 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. "He cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. Exodus 6:3 is not saying that the patriarchs were totally ignorant of the name Yahweh." The KING, acknowledged as such on his coronation, is known to be such by his legislative acts; the civil magistrate, by his distribution of justice, and issuing warrants for the apprehending of culprits; and the constable, by executing those warrants. It was there that God showed, not merely what must be in order that He should be able righteously to abstain from judging (and hence destroying) a sinful people, but what He is in defence of His people against all their foes, were they the mightiest. A God performing what he had promised, and so inspiring confidence in his promises. (Verses 4, 12) The gift of manna to the people is also connected with that of the quails. The bearing of this on the Christian is most evident. (1) God's promise to Moses: Pharaoh will let you go. There is nothing too low or too hard in man to hinder the power of God's grace except the wilfulness that will not have Him at all. The apostle says, "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us: much more then, being now justified by his blood" (it is evidently the same grand truth as the Passover), "we shall be saved from wrath through him." They had this warrant to go on in the name of Jehovah. These are the two forms more particularly in which it is presented. Carefully remember that this does not imply that the word " Jehovah" was not known. He is thus more incredulous than the magicians who said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God" not a mere combination of unusual circumstances with a natural phenomenon. 3. Thus it was when our Lord Jesus was here, and the presence of the Spirit, instead of preventing, confirmed it. Here He was ready for His part to accomplish. Such is the known significance of blood symbolically in scripture. Many times when you by faith step out, and speak what you feel to be the Word of God, people will challenge it, and it'll cause you to question, "Was that really God that was speaking to me?" "So this passage effectively paves the way for the transition from the simple covenant with Abraham to the complex new (Mosaic) covenant with the people as a whole." A God perfecting what he had begun, and finishing his own work. In the last days the Bible says, "Scoffers will come saying, Where is the promise of the coming of Jesus Christ? A God performing what he had promised, and so inspiring confidence in his promises. 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. We have in principle everything while we are on the earth. "I know that he can speak well. Verse Exodus 3:6. 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. Apart from the power of God accomplishing His word, the objectors seem to be ignorant that doubling the population in fifteen years or less is by no means without example. 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. It was for the purpose of having the full power of Satan brought out against His people that He might demolish it for ever. I know not Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go. That Satan is going to do his best to discourage us right at the beginning of any ministry. The legislation would require the administration to begin collecting student loan payments from millions of people by the end of the summer. 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. Who's governing over these things? For no race ever was more apt to find matter for blame than they, none quicker to see their own advantages or to speak out whatever they did see. [Note: Gianotti, p. 39. They were prepared and appointed by him to carry out his work of delivering Israel from Egypt. Now that is in the sense that the word means "the becoming one", actually Abraham used the term Jehovah-Jireh when his son said, "Dad where is the sacrifice?" He cannot understand how a person can be both a freeman and a bondman. The believer is not only bought by the precious blood of Christ, but delivered from the power of the enemy, just as Israel was in type here. Their proud will was broken, although their hearts were by no means with God. This device is called prolepsis, and a number have supposed that is what we have here. God Almighty - Rather, El Shaddai, ( 'el shadday), it is better to keep this as a proper name. See Isaiah 28:12. Thus there are all the great elements of the future kingdom. On the face of it the prescribed mode required the lamb to be taken on the tenth day of the month of Abib and kept till the fourteenth, in the evening of which it was killed. God will attain his own ends, nor shall we come short of them if we make them our chief end too. Shaddai may come from the Hebrew sd ("breast") or from the Ugaritic tdy ("mountain"). In the second, growing out of these circumstances and of the edict which doomed to death every man-child of Israel, appears the deliverer, the type of an infinitely greater one. Bible > Exodus > Chapter 6 > Verse 3 Free Downloads Exodus 6:3 Context Crossref Comm Hebrew Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He did what he thought God was calling him to do. (3) God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you'" ( Ex. They too would be the chosen vessel of His power in their weakness, and this for ever in His mercy. No; they were sheltered, but in the true sense not yet "saved." 1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, 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. 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