Exodua 24

Tue May 24 12:46:27 PDT 2011

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

*Tel: 253-517-9195 - Email: jmbetter at gmail.com*

*Web: www.2rbetter.org*

May 24, 2011

 *FEB 9 - EXODUS 24 - THE RELIGIOUS LIFE: ITS ORDINANCES*

 *1. 24:3 (24:1-3) MOSES: CALLED UP. “And Moses came and told the people all
the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered
with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken will we
do.” *Father, Your Kingdom and Your rule is in Your word, and you are in
Your Son and He in You. *Hallowed be your :name.*

 *2. 24:4 (24:4-5) MOSES: ALTAR AND TWELVE PILLARS. “And Moses wrote all the
words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under
the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.” *Your
will O Father, is in Your Word, and the pattern contained there. We
understand, and submit to Your complete will in Your Word! * Your :kingdom
come.*

 *3. 24:6-7 (24:6-8) MOSES: CONFIRMS COVENANT WITH BLOOD. “And Moses took
half of the blood, and put it in the basins; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in
the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah has spoken will
we do, and be obedient!” *This is *always* the condition for provision. This
is Matthew 6:33 exemplified! *Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!
*

 *4. 24:9-11 MOSES: SEES GOD WITH 70 ELDERS. “Then Moses went up, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 and they saw the
God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of
sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness. 11 And upon
the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: and they beheld
God, and did eat and drink.” *Here we see an example of Your forgiveness of
sin, Father! *Our :daily :bread give us this day!*

 *5. 24:12-13 (24:12-14) MOSES: CALLED UP FOR TEN COMMANDMENTS. “And Jehovah
said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give
you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have
written, that you may teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his
minister: and Moses went up into the mount of God.” *Help us learn, what You
would have us learn from this! *And forgive us our :debts, as we also have
forgiven our :debtors.*

 *6. 24:15-16 (24:15-17) MOSES: ENTERS CLOUD OF GLORY. “And Moses went up
into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. 16 And the glory of Jehovah
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.” *You Father, have
baptized us in the water and the cloud also! *And bring us not into
temptation!*

 *7. 24:18 MOSES: FORTY DAYS AND NIGHTS ON SINAI. “And Moses entered into
the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the
mount forty days and forty nights.” *In the place of obedience, like Moses,
we learn more of You, Father! *But deliver us from the evil one!*

 *NOTE: 24:8 (24:6-8) MOSES: A STRANGE SPRINKLING. “And Moses took the
blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the
covenant, which Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.” *Father,
let Your Spirit of revelation show us Your mind and purpose in this deep
truth!* *

 For me, this is one of the strangest chapters in all of Scripture. It is
unexpected! In is unique! Who would ever have thought that our God Jehovah
would so reveal Himself? Perhaps the transfiguration of Jesus throws some
light here. It was but to 70 elders of Israel with Moses, Aaron and his two
older sons who experienced this unusual revelation. It was some 1500 years
later that Moses appeared with Elijah at the transfiguration of Jesus!

 And consider the location for this revelation. At the base of Mount Sinai!
We read in Galatians 4:25 - *“Now this, Hagar, is Mount Sinai in
:Arabia.” *According
to this, Mount Sinai is *not* in the Sinai Peninsula so-called, but in *
Arabia*, where Paul spent the first three years of his conversion, and
received from God the meaning of the 27 *mysteries* mention in the NT.

 Some archaeologists have discovered this Mount Sinai in Arabia, and there
are the remains of the 12 pillars representing the 12 tribes of Israel, that
God commanded Moses to build there. Could anything be clearer?

 It was later on the top of Mount Carmel that Elijah rebuilt the broken down
altar of Jehovah, with 12 stones - representing the 12 tribes of Israel. And
there by faith according to the word of the Lord, he called down fire from
heaven which consumed the sacrifice, showing up the complete inadequacy of
Baal worship.

 And it was to His 12 apostles that Jesus solemnly averred that in the
Regeneration - they would sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel
(Matthew 19:28).

 Notice too that the Mosaic Covenant was confirmed with the blood of
sprinkling upon the children of Israel. The Abrahamic Covenant is the chief
covenant of the OT. The Mosaic Covenant was a protection for Israel given by
God until His Son came to inaugurate the New Covenant, which is the time for
fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant. And twice in the prophecy of Isaiah -
the Messiah to come - Jesus - is called the *Covenant*!

 Again - I find Exodus 24 one of the strangest chapter of the Bible. It has
lessons in it that are unique, and upon which we must wait in humble
obedience - so that the Holy Spirit can open to us God's inner thinking on
this chapter.

 And now for our Psalm for the day - Psalm 39:7-8 - *“And now, Lord, what do
I wait for? My hope is in you. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make
me not the reproach of the foolish.” *This is one of the 73 Psalms of David.
It expresses the security of those who trust in Jehovah, *and* the
Insecurity of the Wicked! Father, You are Sovereign Lord, and You have made
Jesus both Lord and Messiah, and given to Him as the Son of man - Your Name
of Jehovah! J.A.Watt

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