Israel's Journey continues Exodus 33

 

Exodus 33 – Israel’s Journey Continues

 

This is the third time God has called Israel a stiff-necked people.  God is making it clear to them that He had not come to redeem His people because they were superior. 

God asks them to remove the signs, (their earrings), that show they are heathen and pagan to take a stand for God.  That is the reason that baptism was so important in the early church.  It was evidence that a person had left the old and was taking a stand for the new.

The tabernacle, a tent, is being constructed outside of camp. This was a meeting place where Moses talked with God.  Just as friends speak to each other face to face, God and Moses talked.  But Moses did not see God.

Joshua is mentioned again in this chapter.  He is the man that God is preparing to succeed Moses. 

I believe every sincere child of God has a desire to know God.  Moses knew that he needed the presence of God with him.  He knew that he could not make it on his own.  Even as Moses was for God. We are to be a people for God.  We need His presence today to face the problems of everyday. 

Moses saw God’s glory. Many believers Pray, “show me your way,” but not many pray, “show me Your glory.”  No man can see God in His fullness and live, but God can reveal some of His glory.  He did that for Moses “In the secret place of the Most High.”

Our experience of glory today is explained in 2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

 

 

 

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.