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.