Study Number 42 Proclaim the Name of Jehovah to Moses

 Exo_33:4-6. The tabernacle or tent is pitched without the camp, Exo_33:7. Moses goes to it to consult the Lord, and the cloudy pillar descends on it, Exo_33:8, Exo_33:9. The people, standing at their tent doors, witness this, Exo_33:10. The Lord speaks familiarly with Moses; he returns to the camp, and leaves Joshua in the tabernacle, Exo_33:11. Moses pleads with God, and desires to know whom he will send to be their guide, and to be informed of the way of the Lord, Exo_33:12, Exo_33:13. The Lord promises that his presence shall go with them, Exo_33:14. Moses pleads that the people may be taken under the Divine protection, Exo_33:15, Exo_33:16. The Lord promises to do so, Exo_33:17. Moses requests to see the Divine glory, Exo_33:18. Exo 33:18  And he said, I beseech You, let me see Your glory.

Barnes Notes :But his request could not be granted in accordance with the conditions of human existence. The glory of the Almighty in its fullness is not to be revealed to the eye of man. Compare Jdg_6:22; Isa_6:5. A further revelation of the divine goodness was however possible (see Exo_33:6-7).
It was vouchsafed to Paul, as it had been to Moses, to have special “visions and revelations of the Lord” 2Co_12:1-4. But he had, also like Moses, to find the narrow reach of the intellect of man in the region of Godhead 1Ti_6:16. 
However intimate may be our communion with the Holy One, we are still, as long as we are in the flesh, “to see through a glass darkly,” waiting for the time when we shall see, with no figure of speech, “face to face” 1Co_13:12. Then we know “that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” 1Jo_3:2.

Exo 33:19  And the LORD said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the Name of Jehovah before you. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. 

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee,.... Which is his glory; the glory of the Lord lies in his goodness, and that appears in the works of his hands, in the methods of his providence, especially in the distribution of his sovereign grace and mercy, and particularly in his pardoning grace and mercy, through the blood of Christ; for as it is "the glory" of a man "to pass over a transgression", Pro_19:11 much more it is the glory of God, of which this goodness is afterwards interpreted; and may be understood of Christ himself, who is the goodness of God itself, is not only good, but the Lord's good One, emphatically good; as he is called his holy One, so his good One; because all his goodness is laid up in him, is prevented and filled as Mediator, with the blessings of his goodness

and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee: his name and his nature, his perfections, and the glory of them, as displayed in Christ; or when he is about to pass, or while he is passing by, lest he should pass by unobserved, I will proclaim aloud and give thee notice that he is now passing by thee, whose name is Jehovah, and whose nature, glory, and goodness, are as follow:

and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy: signifying that notwithstanding the children of Israel had sinned against him in such a manner as they had, yet he should show favour, grace, and mercy to them, in pardoning their sins; and it should be distributed, not according to any merits of theirs, but according to his sovereign will and pleasure, and not to all, but to whomsoever he thought fit; and in this would be seen his glory: and so it is with respect to grace and mercy, as displayed in Christ to sinful men;


Exo 33:20  And He said, You cannot see My face. For there no man can see Me and live.
Exo 33:21  And Jehovah said, Behold! There is a place by Me, and you shall stand upon a rock.
Exo 33:22  And it will be, while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.
Exo 33:23  And I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back parts. But My face shall not be seen.

Applications
1. What Pardoning Grace the LORD shows to the Children of Israel. The Revelation of His power and Glory has never been shown to any other people in like manner.
2. When the Lord reveals himself to you He will show you his Glory in His mighty acts and his protective providence but the real face to face encounter is for the future.

Study Number 40 JEHOVAH ELOHEENU - The LORD our God - The LORD is One.

Deu 6:3  Then hear, O, Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as Jehovah, the God of our fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.
Deu 6:4  Hear, O, Israel. Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.
Deu 6:5  And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  mkjv

Deu 6:4  HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. JPS Deu 6:4  Listen, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is the only God.GW Deu 6:4  Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: ASV
This is probably one of the most important verses in the Old Testament  concerning JEHOVAH.
It speaks of more than the fact that JEHOVAH IS ONE GOD. “It asserts that the Lord God of Israel is absolutely God, and none other. He, and He alone, is Jehovah (Yahweh) the absolute, uncaused God; the One who had, by His election of them, made Himself known to Israel."

K& D present us concerning these verses, “There are two things contained in it:

(1) that Jehovah is the one absolute God; #

(2) that He requires love with all the heart, all the soul, and all the strength. “Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”

(Note: On the majuscula ע and ד in שְׁמַע and אֶחָד, R. Bochin has this remark: “It is possible to confess one God with the mouth, although the heart is far from Him.

He is Jehovah, the Being of beings, a self-existent Being, eternal and immutable; and he is but one in nature and essence; this appears from the perfection of his nature, his eternity, omnipotence, omnipresence, infinity, goodness, self-sufficiency, and perfection; for there can be but one eternal, one omnipotent, one omnipresent, one infinite, one that is originally and of himself good; one self, and all sufficient, and perfect Being. J. Gill

Applications.

1.  We should come to JEHOVAH and bow before Him as the One True and Living God and there is NONE OTHER.

2. He is not simply the tribal God of Hebrews but the KING over ALL the Earth. Every other ‘god’ is man made out of the thoughts and the imagination of Man. There is only ONE JEHOVAH LORD of the Universe

Study Number 39 JEHOVAH ELOHEENU, meaning “the LORD, our God.”

We need to Call upon Jehovah Eloheenu when the Body of Christ is under attack.

It is wonderful to call upon JEHOVAH ELOHAY and receive a personal miracle. When we pray together to Jehovah Eloheenu and have faith for the corporate Body of  Christ to have a miracle, we begin to get the Vision of the Kingdom of God. We see what God can do in the World when we knit our hearts together in prayer towards a common goal.M.H.


I remember some years ago when we were having outreach meeting in a Muslim Nation in the open air. Our Visiting Evangelist and I were called to the Mayor’s office on Sunday morning after the morning service. He said, “Please stop open-air preaching as I cannot assure your safety. “ We obliged for some two months and did not preach in his jurisdiction but continued in other districts. During this time God raised up a young woman from her death-bed in answer to prayer. We continued to pray that the LORD would open the doors for Local Evangelism. When I wrote to the Mayor of our town and asked if I could continue he said to me, “Yes. Go ahead now it is authorised.” The Lord had opened the Door for the Gospel.
Our Lord is JEHOVAH ELOHEENU, the LORD OUR God.

A Group at Mt Horeb

Now look at Deut 1:6,19 and 20
Deu 1:6  Jehovah our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have had enough of dwelling in this mountain. v.7  Turn and pull up stakes, and enter the hill-country of the Amorites,
Deu 1:19  And when we pulled up stakes from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Deu 1:20  And I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God has given unto us. MKJV

Notes: v.6 The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount — Horeb was the general name of a mountainous district; literally, “the parched” or “burnt region,” whereas Sinai was the name appropriated to a particular peak [see on Exo_19:2]. About a year had been spent among the recesses of that wild solitude, in laying the foundation, under the immediate direction of God, of a new and peculiar community, as to its social, political, and, above all, religious character; and when this purpose had been accomplished, they were ordered to break up their encampment in Horeb. The command given them was to march straight to Canaan, and possess it [Deu_1:7].JFB


v. 19 we went through all that great and terrible wilderness — of Paran, which included the desert and mountainous space lying between the wilderness of Shur westward, or towards Egypt and mount Seir, or the land of Edom eastwards; between the land of Canaan northwards, and the Red Sea southwards; and thus it appears to have comprehended really the wilderness of Sin and Sinai [Fisk]. It is called by the Arabs El Tih, “the wandering.” It is a dreary waste of rock and of calcareous soil covered with black sharp flints; all travelers, from a feeling of its complete isolation from the world, describe it as a great and terrible wilderness.KFB

The Wilderness Wanderings or the Desert Wnaderings

v.20 And I said unto you, you are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,.... Which was inhabited by them, and was one of the seven nations the Israelites were to destroy, and possess their land, and which lay on the southern part of the land of Canaan:

which the Lord our God doth give unto us; not the mountain only, but the whole country of that people, and even all the land of Canaan.
Applications
1. He is our personal god but He is also Jehovah ELOHEENU - Our personal God. He will give us the Victory and cause our enemies to flee before us Deut 2: 33-36.
2. May the Lord knit our hearts together in One Direction to accomplish His will in the earth.

Other Names for God Elohay Selichot - God Of Forgiveness: (Nehemiah 9:17). Elohay Marom - God Of Heights: (Micah 6:6). Elohay Mikarov - God Who Is Near: (Jeremiah 23:23). Elohay Mauzi - God Of My Strength: (Psalm 43:2).Elohay Tehilati - God Of My Praise: (Psalm 109:1). Elohay Yishi - God Of My Salvation: (Psalm 18:46). Elohim Kedoshim - Holy God: (Leviticus 19:2, Joshua 24:19). Our Elohim Chaiyim - Living God: (Jeremiah 10:10).Elohay Elohim - God Of Gods: (Deuteronomy 10:17).

Study Number 38 EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL; meaning the “Personal God of Israel”

Gen 33:20  There Jacob erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.  (The Mighty One, the personal God of Israel.) 

Jacob was grateful for all God had done for Him in Mesopotamia on his long journey. Now he builds an altar there and worships El Elohe Israel.

Jacob [meaning supplanter, deceiver  or con-man] his name has been changed to Israel. [a Prince with God] His life had been through many trials while fleeing from his brother Esau. God had transformed his nature from being a deceiver to being one who had wrestled with God and prevailed at the brook Peniel. But his flesh had be touched and weakened (now he limped) but now He was blessed, a godly man a true example of a man controlled by the Spirit.
After he had been reconciled to Esau his brother, now in Shechem He worships EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL The Mighty One of Israel ('êl 'ĕlôhêy yiśrâ'êl)

Applications.
1. Do you acknowledge that God has changed your life and transformed you nature from being a natural man following his flesh and the sinful nature to being a SPIRITUAL Man, controlled by the Spirit of God. Jacob built an altar in Gratitude to EL-ELOHE-JISRAEL

2. As you look back over your life do you acknowledge and worship that God who is your personal GOD and He has blessed you. Instead of EL-ELOHE-JISRAEL you can now say EL-ELOHE- Ken or Bill or Rob. Is there evidence of this in your life.

Study Number 37 JEHOVAH ELOHAY - THE LORD, MY GOD

In the next couple of days we will research three closely related Names. JEHOVAH ELOHAY, The Lord My God; EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL; meaning the “Personal God of Israel”; and the third is JEHOVAH ELOHEENU, meaning “the LORD, our God.”
So today we will look at the first name: JEHOVAH ELOHAY- The LORD, my God. This God is the One on whom we can call when we need a Miracle, and know that He will work on our behalf. M.H.

Elohay Kedem - God of the Beginning: (Deuteronomy 33:27). THE ETERNAL GOD.
Deu 33:27  The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.
Notes: “The eternal God is our hiding place; he carries us in his arms.” he is the One who has been from the beginning from the eternal past, The Creator of all things. He is our Hiding place, our dwelling place, our refuge.
“J.Gill : and he is the refuge of his people, the antitype of the cities of refuge, to whom sinners, under a sense of sin, flee for refuge; and where they are safe from avenging justice, the wrath of God, the condemnation of the law, everlasting ruin and destruction, or the second death; or their "mansion", or "dwelling place" (k); which he has been in all generations, as Moses also says, Psa_90:1”

And underneath are the everlasting arms, (and he carries us in His arms) J. Gill says: “that is, of God, which are the support of his people, and their protection, safety, and security; such as the arms of his everlasting love, which encircle them, and compass them about as a shield; “

Elohay Mishpat - God of Justice: (Isaiah 30:18).

Isa 30:18  The LORD God is waiting to show how kind he is and to have pity on you. The LORD always does right; he blesses those who trust him.

For the Lord is a God of judgment - He will do what is right. He will spare the nation still; and yet establish among them the true religion, and they shall flourish. Despite all their sins He will do what is right.
blessed are all those who wait for him.  Our Justice comes from the LORD who the God of Justice and Judgment.
Barnes “
Blessed are all they that wait for him - This seems to have been recorded to encourage them, when the threatened calamities should come upon them, to put their confidence in God, and to trust that he would yet appear and restore the nation to himself. This verse is the commencement of the annunciation of the blessings which should yet be conferred on them. The description of these blessings is continued to Isa_30:26.”

Applications.
1. The God of the beginning, Elohay Kedem, is our HIDING PLACE. We run into Him and are safe. He supports us and carries us with His everlasting Arms.
2. You can trust the Lord to ALWAYS DO WHAT IS RIGHT. So look to the LORD and wait for Him. If you are going through desperate days then be encouraged and put your trust in Him.

Six Jews escaped via the Ten Boom's Hiding place

Study Number 36 Scriptures concerning JEHOVAH GMOLAH AND His Reward.

Pro 12:14  A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Pro 11:31  Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Jer 32:18  You show loving-kindness unto thousands, and You recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is His Name,
Jer 32:19  Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Notes
If we sow tomatoes in our garden we will always get tomatoes not grapes. If we sow kindness and love into our children then we reap kindness and love for a thousand generations.
Put much into your children. It will be worth it in the long run  They are very impressionable and are easily mouldable under your tender care.
Eph 6:4  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
This means that we should speak the Word of God to them , enroll them in a good Christian school and take them to church and youth group where they are taught the Word of God faithfully.

Many people have problems because their fathers did not nurture them properly. They provoked them to anger. May the Lord give you wisdom on how to love and discipline your child.

Applications
1. According to Proverbs 1214 above, you will be recompensed for your labour on earth. Just expect it and do your best. The Bible says do it with all your might.
2. You will always reap what you sow. Tomatoes come from tomato seeds and respectful godly children come from parents who properly nurture their children.

Study Number 35 - JEHOVAH GMOLAH - THE LORD WHO RECOMPENSES OR REWARDS(CONT.)

The study today is taken the life of Moses and His rewards for His Decision to follow God and suffer with the People of God. Our Key Verses are:

Heb 11:24  By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

M. Hickey says, “Moses encountered JEHOVAH GMOLAH, although He didn’t call God by this Name. He had been adopted by Hatshepsut, the daughter of Pharoah. She apparently was brilliant  but wasn’t allowed to reign because she was a women. Her half brother, who was practically mentally handicapped, would be the next Pharoah, simply because he was a male. To ensure strong leadership during the next generation, Pharoah arranged a marriage between Hatshepsut and her half brother.
Apparently she absolutely hated him, and had him poisoned.
Then In Exodus 2:6 she found this baby floating in the Nile in a Basket. She named him Moses. She started to groom him for leadership in Egypt. He would one day be the Next Pharoah in Egypt - the most advanced civilisation at that time.

Moses found by Pharoah's Daughter

Would He follow his adopted mother’s wishes or would he choose  God  and deliver the Israelites from slavery.  He had some weighty choices to make, just as we do today.
Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 

Moses a Prince in Egypt

• John Wesley “11:26 The reproach of Christ - That which he bore for believing in the Messiah to come, and acting accordingly. For he looked off - From all those perishing treasures, and beyond all those temporal hardships Unto the recompence of reward - Not to an inheritance in Canaan; he had no warrant from God to look for this, nor did he ever attain it; but what his believing ancestors looked for, - a future state of happiness in heaven.”

Look at these Scriptures Heb_11:6, Heb_2:2, Heb_10:35; Rth_2:12; Pro_11:18, Pro_23:18; Mat_5:12, Mat_6:1, Mat_10:41; Luk_14:14

Applications.
1. We have to make a similar Decision now. Whether we will live for sin and pleasure which is fleeting and soon will pass away or whether we will choose to suffer reproach with the People of God now and live forever, through all eternity, blessed by God and with God. The choice is the passing, the temporal self gratification against suffering now and being rewarded for Eternity.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.