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- In Exodus 33.
- 18.
- Moses asks to see the glory of God.
- And he responds by saying that he will reveal his name to Moses.
- In the scriptures.
- A name is much more than a way to designate someone; rather.
- A name is meant to express something essential about its owner.
- Such as a summary of a person’s identity.
- Thus.
- When God proclaims his name in the next chapter (34:6-7).
- He actually reveals his character to Moses (and us).
- Presents his identity.
- Shows his people who he is.
- It is astonishing that this is God’s response to the request to see his glory.
- What is the glory of God? According to Exodus 33-34.
- It is the proclamation of the name of God.
- The revelation of his identity.
- His inner beauty communicated to the outside.
- Is God made known.
But by proclaiming his identity to Moses, YHWH himself would die, and the splendor of his presence would have destroyed Moses (Exodus 20). So that Moses could rejoice rather than be destroyed by the glory of God, YHWH places Moses in the crack of the rock?and covers the prophet with his hand (v. 22). Well, it’s important for at least four reasons.
First, the scriptures often refer to God as the rock and refuge of his people (Dt 32. 4,15,18; Salt 18. 2, 57. 1, 61. 2-3, etc. ). No word or situation in the Bible makes sense, so we should not think that it is a coincidence that Moses takes refuge in a rock, I do not think we can read this account in the light of all Scripture, without remembering that God Himself is so often the rock of our refuge.
Secondly, it should be noted that a “crack” in a rock is something like a crack, a crack or a crack. Moses is hidden in a rock that has been broken; It’s a wounded rock and more than that, it’s hidden in the slit of the rock, do we see Moses here taking refuge from God’s destructive presence in the wound of a rock?The echoes of Calvary must begin to fill our minds. .
Third, there is at least one reason to believe that the rock on which Moses hides is actually the rock that was wounded and that sank into Exodus 17. Before we go any further, I must point out that I do. Thanks to my fellow seminarian, John repeats most of the following ideas.
In Exodus 17. 6, we read that the rock Moses struck was “in Horeb,” and many believe That Horeb is another name for Sinai. We know that when the rock was injured, it opened and the water flowed like a river (Sal. 105. 41, Is. 48. 21), which means there must be at least some kind of crack. Couldn’t it be the same crack?Where has God put Moses not to perish?If so, I’m sure we’ll see Christological figures at this event for two reasons. First, Paul tells us that the wounded rock in the desert was a type of Christ (1 Cor. 10. 4). And secondly, the story of the rock wound in Exodus 17 is intentionally presented as an act of surrender on the part of YHWH itself (is the full explanation of this event the subject of another article?). No doubt Exodus 17 foreshadows the work of Christ on the cross; and, as I said, there is evidence to believe that the rock in Exodus 17 is the same rock on which Moses took refuge in Exodus 33.
Fourth, notice that YHWH covers Moses with his hand, it is clear that this is an anthropomorphic language because before the incarnation of the Son in human history, God had no body, yet the use of numbers refers to?Hand? It’s not trivial. Often, the?Hand of God is synonymous with his saving and conservative strength before his people (Exodus 15. 6; Come out 17. 7, 60. 5, 63. 8; Is 41. 10). This figure reaches its climax on the cross, where the hand of YHWH incarnate, God the Son, extends and rises in the supreme act of redemption Can’t I think we can read a text from the hand of God working to save those who belong to him (or, in this case, protect them from destruction) without seeing, like Thomas, the hands of our Lord and our God , wounded to save your people.
God places Moses on the sore of an invigorating stone and covers it with his hand, so that the prophet may enjoy the glory of God and not be destroyed by it. God’s preparation to declare his glory to Moses is rich in Christological figures. we take that into account when we go to chapter 34 and see YHWH make the definitive proclamation of the Old Testament with regard to his identity, his name?Moses.
? YHWH, YHWH, compassionate, merciful and persevering God and great in mercy and fidelity; Who keeps mercy for a thousand generations, who forgives wickedness, transgression, and sin, even if he does not eliminate the culprit?(Example 34. 6-7)
The name of God proclaimed in Exodus 34:6-7 is paradigmatic of how God’s people perceive it in the rest of the scriptures, although many — indeed infinite — could be said about it, in this article I just want to observe the description of the central trait: “great in mercy and fidelity”.
As the story of God’s revealing redemption continues, do these two words seem to form a kind of?Summary, this refers to the revelation of God’s identity in Sinai. They often appear in contexts where God’s covenant of grace is established or revealed, and tend to express merciful love, inexorable and forgiving of God for his covenant people (Psalm 40. 11, 57. 1-3, 69. 13-14; 85. 4 -10, 89. 23-26 – variant word used for fidelity -, 108. 3-5, 115. 1; Bone. 4. 1). Will he who fully trusts in the name of God, as revealed in Sinai, be ashamed?
However, there is tension when a sinner asks for the mercy of a God whose name is “great in mercy and fidelity”. Although filled with unwavering and forgiving love, his fidelity to his alliance seems to demand the destruction of those who oppose this tension in the essence of the name YHWH will remain unresolved until we reach the New Testament. For now, just recognize that expression?Mercy and fidelity?(A) can be used as an abbreviation of the full name of God revealed in Sinai yb) specifically refers to the Lord’s sovereign, forgiving, and redeeming love.
“And the Word became flesh, and dwelted among us, full of grace and truth, and we saw his glory, glory as that of the father’s begotten” (Jo 1:14).
The verb? God’s eternal self-re-unveiling became flesh and was seen by eyewitnesses on earth. And John says that the glory he saw in the incarnation of the Son was filled with grace and truth.
This is impressive because the two words for “Grace and truth?”They are widely recognized as Greek equivalents of the Hebrew words “mercy and fidelity”. By applying one of the Hebrew Bible’s favorite YHWH identity descriptions to the man Jesus Christ, John makes a bold and revolutionary theological statement. He essentially affirms that the glory of YHWH revealed in Sinai has now been embodied in the person of Jesus Christ. John tells us that this man is the final answer to Moses’ request to see the glory of God. Jesus not only correctly teaches the name of God, it is the name of God incarnate.
John 1. 1-18 is the best introduction to a book ever written. In this introduction, John makes the astonishing statement that God the Son, who is the eternal and unityless Word of God, entered human history as Jesus of Nazareth. What about this man, in your human life and your ministry?revealed the name, identity, and glory of God YHWH. John tells us this: has anyone ever seen God?(an intentional allusion to Exodus 33 and Moses hidden in the rock), but the man of flesh and blood, Jesus Christ, who is God Himself, made us know the Almighty God.
Absolutely amazing. John fills us with anticipation as we begin to read his gospel: “How will Jesus show us YHWH? How will his glory be revealed? His” grace and truth “Due to the emphasis of the prologue on Jesus’ role as God’s exegete, Everything he says and does in the Gospel of John is loaded with a revealing weight: It is not just the life of a prophet, it is the life of God with us, and to see something true in Jesus is to see something true in God.
So what wonder, what mystery, what splendor and what glory is it to fulfill this life? Is the life of God known? More than any other evangelical author, does John point out that the crucifixion of Jesus was itself the supreme act of God’s revelatory redemption and, therefore, the supreme communication of God’s glory? The Glory Spoken at Sinai (as a further comment, I don’t think I don’t think it’s a coincidence that John talks so much about the love and glory of the cross of Christ and was also, as far as we know, the only evangelical writer physically present at the crucifixion ).
When Jesus is on the verge of Calvary, he turns his heart to the Father and says, “But it is precisely for this purpose that I have come at this hour. Father, glorify your name? (John 12:27-28). The purpose of the cross is the glorified Father (and remember what we said earlier, the glory of God is being known). Or, after Judas, possessed by Satan, went out to betray Christ, Jesus proclaims: “Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him; If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself; And he’ll glorify you immediately?And then, when I am only a few minutes from prison and a few hours from the cross, the Son raises his voice and asks the Father, “And now, Father, glorfie with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world existed” (John 17:5).
Glory, glory, glory in the gospel of John, the cross is full of glory. Why, Gloria?of God is the revelation of your identity, your inner beauty, your name and?as John 1: 14-18 clearly says?Jesus’ whole life was a revelation of God’s name, but this work of communicating the name culminates in his voluntarily chosen death on the cross.
Seen in the radiant light of the resurrection, the cross of Christ becomes the ultimate act of God’s revealing redemption. It is on the cross, in the fragile and bloody human nature where Jesus is sovereignly united, that God YHWH is definitively proclaimed in his creation. By offering his humanity to be cursed by the desolations of divine law, instead of his people, YHWH is faithful to both punish and save. It is by weaving mortality into the tapestry of your own infinite life, so that you can give this life completely in the death of your loved one that our Lord and God reveals the full extent of his mercy. It is by marrying the life of God with 5 liters of human blood shed under the Roman plagues in the Jewish land that YHWH really shows himself as the one who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin. And it is by becoming the grinding stone of the guilt of his people’s sin and drowning under the blows of God’s torrential wrath, that the almighty Lord of Sinai proclaims himself as the one who does not cleanse the guilty. The name whispered with words at Sinai is proclaimed aloud in flesh, bones, tears, and love embodied on Golgotha. Ah, incomprehensible Lord, to you be the glory!
The name of God is communicated in a culminating and clear way in the person of Jesus Christ and, more particularly, in this supreme act of revelation of redemption: crucifixion and resurrection, this is what he was trying to communicate both in this image and in the animation from which it was extracted, The Name of God. At first, the image above is a depiction of the scene of Exodus 34:6-7, where YHWH walks past Moses and proclaims his name. The lyrics are the? Tetragrammaton? Of the Hebrew consonants that make up the name of the one true God. As we have already said, this event and this name do much more than remind us of what God is called; rather, it is a time when God reveals who he is.
For this reason, you will notice that I have drawn attention to the person and work of Christ, in whom the name proclaimed here will find its culminating expression. The crack in which Moses is hidden is crimson red and aligns with the hand covered in YHWH. , to evoke the image of Christ’s wounded hand. This is appropriate because Christ’s wounds represent the final redeeming act of YHWH’s mercy and fidelity to his people, and why?Metaphorically? Nas? Christ’s wounds take refuge from the storm of God’s wrath. Just as Moses was covered by YHWH in the crack of the rock, however, all the people of God who trust in Christ are covered by the hand of the incarnate God. Are we covered to rejoice rather than be destroyed by the glory of our God?The glory we see most clearly in this very act of redemption for which we were covered: the death and resurrection of God the Son.
In this way, I pray that this image and animation The name of God will help you to contemplate with admiration and joyful eyes that God is definitively known in the person and in the revelatory and redeeming work of His Son. Would it be blasphemy to say it? So if God Himself had not taught us to say it, what is this the sweetest truth that the human mind can conceive of?If we want to know God: let us look at Jesus crucified and risen.