Êxodo 19

Êxodo 19

Morgan wrote "Their answer was sincere, but it was ignorant. Even so with us. We say, ‘All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do,’ and we fail. But God never fails. He waits and pursues His own way of grace and government.” While Israel may have considered their response as sincere, the problem with Israel (like all of us) is the problem of our heart. We are prone to wander. Jeremiah says “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9) The answer to Jeremiah's question is that God understands the heart and He knew Israel's heart... Go near and hear all that the LORD our God says; then speak to us all that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.’ 28 “The LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29 ‘Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!" (Deut. 5:27–29). Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever." Then Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. Behold- Ex 19:16 20:21 24:15,16 De 4:11 1Ki 8:12 2Ch 6:1 Ps 18:11,12 Ps 97:2 Isa 19:1 Mt 17:5 Mk 9:7 Lu 9:34,35 Rev 1:7 so that the people may hear - De 4:12,36 Joh 12:29,30 and may also believe in you forever - Ex 14:31 2Ch 20:20 Isa 7:9 Lu 10:16 Exodus 19 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Mt Sinai - Yahweh in a Thick Cloud ISRAEL TO BEHOLD HIS GLORY DESCENDING The LORD said to Moses - The text does not say, but presumably Moses has ascended again to the Mountain of God to meet with Yahweh. Behold (hinneh) "is a word of wonder; it is intended to excite admiration. Wherever you see it hung out in Scripture, it is like an ancient sign-board, signifying that there are rich wares within, or like the hands which solid readers have observed in the margin of the older Puritanic books, drawing attention to something particularly worthy of observation." I would add, behold is like a divine highlighter, a divine underlining of an especially striking or important text. It says in effect "Listen up, all ye who would be wise in the ways of Jehovah!"" (C H Spurgeon) I will come to you in a thick cloud - Note that Yahweh specifically is coming to Moses, but clearly all Israel would be able to witness His coming (Ex 19:11). The verb brought (bo) is frequently used as here to describe the great condescending mercy and grace of Yahweh coming to His people. In the next chapter we read "Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.” (Ex 20:20+). NET Note - The construction uses the deictic particle and the participle to express the imminent future, what God was about to do. Here is the first announcement of the theophany.. (Notes) Matthew