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| 1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest. |
Two tables of stone – Representing that The Christ is commissioned to prepare the hearts of mankind for the rewriting of the divine law. R5299:1
Symbolized the preparation of mankind through the justification accomplished by Christ. R2196:4
And I will write -Typifyingthe work of The Christ during the Millennial age; the engraving of the law of God in the very hearts of all the willing. R2196:4
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| 2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount. |
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| 3 And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. |
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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 Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone. |
Hewed two tables – Representing that The Christ is commissioned to prepare the hearts of mankind for the rewriting of the divine law. R5299:1
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| 5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah. |
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| 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; |
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| 7 keeping lovingkindness 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, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. |
By no means clear – God can never pardon sin. The word "pardon" does not occur in the New Testament, and in the Old should be translated "forgive." R387:1
To have pardoned Adam, God would have made of himself a liar. R386:6
The righteousness of God's law demanded a satisfaction for the claims of justice-- a life for a life. R1917:1
Thus God's law demanded a ransom. R709:5
But he has provided a way in which he can be just and yet justify. (Rom. 3:26). HG308:2
Showing God's justice. Yet he was so loving that he gave his only begotten son to redeem us from death. R391:5
While justice was reading to Adam the penalty of the broken law, love was telling him that there would be a deliverance. R586:5
Unto the third and ... fourth – Contrary to Darwin. Deviations from the species prototype are corrected in the course of three generations-N.Y. Times. R4859:6*
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| 8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. |
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| 9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight,O Jehovah, let Jehovah, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. |
A stiffnecked people – Like an ox, difficult to turn about. R5387:3
Their stubbornness will eventually show the mercy of God through his dealing with them. OV120:4
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| 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is an awesome thing that I do with thee. |
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| 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. |
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| 12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: |
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| 13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim |
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| 14 (for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God); |
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| 15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice; |
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| 16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods. |
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| 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. |
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| 18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. |
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| 19 All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle that is male, the firslings of cow and sheep.
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| 20 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. |
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| 21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. |
On the seventh day – Type of the Millennial age. R5071:6; B40; Q607:4
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| 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. |
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| 23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. |
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| 24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year. |
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| 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. |
With leaven – Symbol of corruption, sin. R5192:4; F464; T98
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| 26 The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. |
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| 27 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. |
A covenant with thee – God's covenant with Israel made at Sinai and the course of that people under the dominion of that Law are represented by the First Ascending Passage of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
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| 28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. |
With the LORD – Supernaturally strengthened to behold his glory. B131
Covenant, the ten – The Law written upon tables of stone represented that covenant because every blessing under that covenant was made dependant upon absolute obedience to that Law. R1724:4
It served them well as a servant to bring them to Christ. R1724:5
The Ten Commandments were a part of the Law covenant, supplanted by the New covenant-"he is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Heb. 8:6) R1732:1
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| 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. |
Moses came down – A type of the greater lawgiver and Mediator of the New covenant, Christ, Head and Body, who shall come forth to bless the world. B134; D630; R5035:4
With the two tables – Representing the New covenant, of which Christ is the Mediator. D631; B134
His face shone – Typifying the spiritual glory of The Christ. B134; D631
The "figure" was "glorious"; the reality "excelleth" in glory. (2 Cor. 3:10). R1323:2*
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| 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. |
They were afraid – If unable to view this reflected glory, how could natural man ever expect to see him who is now "the express image of the Father's person"? (Heb. 1:3) B131
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| 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spake to them. |
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| 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him in mount Sinai. |
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| 33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. |
A vail on his face – Typical of the blindness of their hearts. R1323:4*
Typifies the earthly phase of the Kingdom, the "princes in all the earth" through whom the Christ will speak to the people, the glory being hidden. D630; R5035:4, R5299:2, R4310:6
Illustrating that when the glory of the Lord is revealed the glory of the spiritual persons cannot be seen. They will be under cover. B134; R4366:5
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| 34 But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. |
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| 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. |
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