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| 1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. |
Seventy of the elders – Supposedly the original Sanhedrin. R4037:2, R3346:3
Similarly, the 70 whom the Lord sent forth represented all the leaders or elders amongst his people today. R3346:3
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| 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. |
And Moses alone – Moses was the Mediator of the Law covenant. Christ became the heir of its promises of life and the (head of) the Mediator of the New covenant. R1725:4
God dealt with only one man in making the Law covenant. Moses stood in the position of a father, the nation being treated as children under age. R5046:4
Moses is Mediator of the Law covenant as long as it is in effect. Moses is Mediator of the Law covenant today. Q498:3
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| 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. |
Moses came and told – For a period of 1000 years, this Mediator will do a work for mankind. R5292:3
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| 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. |
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| 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. |
Burnt offerings, and – The blood of peace-offerings and burnt-offerings sealed the Law covenant, picturing the Church sacrificing earthly rights, and that God accepts these sacrifices as sealing the New covenant-entirely aside from the Atonement for Adamic sin accomplished by the same sacrifices, viewed from the standpoint of the sin-offering. R4389:6
Peace-offerings are a type of entire consecration to God during the next age. T98
More than one bullock and goat because of the multitude of the people to be sprinkled. In reality, one bullock and one goat duplicated as often as necessary to provide a sufficiency of blood. R2874:5; CR485:5
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| 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. |
And Moses took – Representing a greater than Moses, Jesus and his Church. Q29:4
Sprinkled on the altar – Representing the satisfaction of justice. R5162:6
In the antitype, our Lord's blood was first applied on our behalf. R4513:6
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| 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. |
The covenant – Representing the better covenant. Q29:4
God agreed that if Israel would keep his Law they would have everlasting life. R5292:2
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| 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. |
Took the blood – Representing man's acceptance of the divine arrangement. R5342:6
The sprinkling of the books of the Law took only a few seconds; sprinkling the people took a long time. R5342:6
On the people – Sprinkled from all sympathy with evil, mankind will make their declaration of full loyalty to God. R5164:2
Probably not on the two millions, but upon representatives of the whole, the heads or chiefs of the tribes. R3046:2
Bringing them under the obligation of the Law covenant. R5000:1, R5162:6
So The Christ, during the Millennium, will sprinkle the world of mankind, bringing them into harmony with the divine law. It will require the thousand years. R5421:5; CR485:5
The sprinkling with the blood represents justification. R5421:5
The Mediator will antitypically sprinkle the people; that is, he will show them how to come back into full accord with God. R5164:2
In antitype, the blood sprinkling the whole world means restitution. R5878:4
When the Church shall have finished using the blood that same merit will be applied "for all the people," sealing the New covenant. R4513:6
Of the covenant – A covenant does not go into operation until after it has been fully mediated. R5164:1
Which the LORD hath made – To last for centuries, but only one year at a time; renewed by the annual Day of Atonement sacrifices. R5162:6
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| 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: |
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| 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. |
Saw the God of Israel – That is, the Lord's special messenger, the angel of the Lord. Q360:2
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| 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
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| 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. |
Which I have written – Moses thus attributes the origin of the Mosaic Law to God, not to himself. A53
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| 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. |
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| 14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. |
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| 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. |
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| 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. |
Cloud covered it – Similarly, the Church is generally enveloped in clouds of trouble which hide the glory from others. By and by her glory shall be manifested without the enveloping cloud. R1982:2
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| 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. |
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| 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. |
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