Genesis Framework Part 10

Genesis Framework
GF 10 Exodus 14
Aug 30, 2015
Part 10

Scripture

Exodus 14

Exodus 14:5-31
5 Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, "Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
6 So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.
7 Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them.
8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness.
9 So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Tzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
11 Then they said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?
12 "Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness."
13 And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.
14 "The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace."
15 And the LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
16 "But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
17 "And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.
18 "Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
19 And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.

Explain…

There is an evident intent with the question of God’s name-identity in the Pentateuch.Moses arranges the divine names of God in a striking pattern.In the creation account proper (Gen 1.1-2.3) only the generic term for God, Elohim, is used for the Creator.In the creation account proper (Gen 1.1-2.3) only the generic term for God, Elohim, is used for
the Creator. In the narrative of man’s history in the garden (Gen 2.4-3.24) the predominate use is a compound designation, Yahweh-Elohim. Actually, this compound divine name is used as often in this brief section as it is in all the rest of the Old Testament.

Then beginning with chapter 4, Yahweh and Elohim are used singly, with the choice of one or the other determined in each instance by individual theological and literary considerations.You probably want to know, why the compound designation would ever appear.It appears that this is a purposeful way of declaring that Yahweh, the covenant Lord of redemptive history is Elohim, the Creator-God of all things; therefore Yahweh is well able to keep the covenant, because He is Elohim, the exalted One who is the central figure of the huge creative drama, whose glory is self-disclosed through the grand apocalypse as the almighty Creator of all things.

(Continuing) Exodus 14:5-31
20 So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darknessto the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.
25 And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians."
26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."
27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.
29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
30 So the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 Thus Israel saw the great work which the LORD had done in Egypt; so the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD and His servant Moses.

h particle article noun common masculine singular B3574 darkness, obscurity –
1. darkness (opp. ); darkness in mines; of extraordinary darkness, in Egypt, from pillar of cloud; at Mt. Sinai; of clouds of theophany; of darkness in death, or Sheôl ( Some of the fight God does for His own is to keep darkness upon His enemies and give light to His children.“the cloud of the darkness, obscurity”

Today, we continue seeking the answer to this question:

(Q) How variously identified( conceptualized) is the Glory-Spirit in the Scriptures?

What we will discover in the Scriptures is that in most instances the theophanic glory is expressed as some form of light, and that the creation of light was always intended by God to dispel all forms of darkness. Also, as we traverse the use of expressions dealing with the existence of God’s holy light throughout the Scriptures, we will discover a movement of God’s holy light from being exclusively in an external place, and changing to becoming internalized as a life-creating force of God, the Light takes a dwelling place within the true believer. Let’s begin with the least frequently occurring form of light used to conceptualize the theophanic glory: the rainbow.

Genesis 9:12-16
And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.

Ezekiel 1.28
Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

Revelation 4:2-3
2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

Revelation 10:1
I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

So, the theophanic light appeared at times as a rainbow radiance expressive of the holy beauty of the Lord on His temple throne. Did you notice that the rainbow cloud always seems to accompany the glory-cloud.

(Q) Why is this?
(A) The rainbow-witness is closely associated with the glory-cloud because God’s throne is to be found within the glory-cloud, and from there He functions as Righteous Judge!

Recall…

Exodus 14:5-31

24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.

The theophanic glory is also expressed as light, at whatever dimensional level it was perceived or whatever guise the divine epiphany assumed in other respects. The appearance of the Glory was the appearance of light as of fire or the sun, the light of divine glory that no man can approach.

Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Ezekiel 1.27
Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

1 Timothy 6:15-16
He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see,
to whom be honor and everlasting power.

Exodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.

Exodus 24:17
The sight of the glory of the LORDwas like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 40:38
For the cloud of the LORDwas above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

Numbers 9:15
Now on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.

Acts 7:30
And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

…the appearance of pre-incarnate Christ

Nehemiah 9:19
Yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, To show them light, And the way they should go.

Exodus 25:37
You shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it.

Numbers 8:2
"Speak to Aaron, and say to him, 'When you arrange the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.' "

Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy pillar, And by night with a pillar of fire, To give them light on the road Which they should travel.

NKJ Nehemiah 9:19
Yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, To show them light, And the way they should go.

God still gives you the light of His glory when you are on the move. to show the way to go; and when you are still, He gives the light of understanding to shed upon where you are, to see what you are doing.

John 1:4
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 1:5
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 8:12
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

John 11:10
"But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

John 12:36
"While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

John 12:46
"I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.

Acts 9:3
As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.

Acts 22:6-11
6 Now it happened, as I journeyed and came near Damascus at about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me.
7 And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' So I answered, 'Who are You, Lord?'
8 And He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.
9 And those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.
10 So I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Arise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all things which are appointed for you to do.' And since I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

Acts 26:13
"at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

2 Corinthians 4:6
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

out from within absolute darkness

Many will be surprised on the Day of Judgment when they discover that it was just as the Word of God says; only the righteousness of Christ is able to save you.All men are sinners and no one can save himself. God is just, so He must punish sin; but He is also merciful, moreover gracious, and offers His Son as the perfect sacrifice in order to purchase a place for you in heaven, which He offers to you as the free gift of eternal life.

Jesus is God Incarnate

In order to pay the debt of our sins, He came from Heaven, having been sent by the Father, where He lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father even unto the shameful death upon the cross in order to pay the debt of your sins.This gift must be received by faith, believing that Jesus’ perfect life and Cross Work was His complete and necessary Atonement for your sins, in your behalf.Faith is a gift that comes by the Power of God the Holy Spirit working in a person’s innermost being. The Holy Spirit has the authority and power to quicken your dead spirit, to make it come to life. If you have not done so before this moment, ask Jesus to forgive you your sins, tell Him you’ve stop trying to be your own savior, and ask Him to come into your life right now, and to give you eternal life. Then, in faith believing, thank Him for the gift that He is giving you, the one He paid for in full in your place, in Jesus’ name,AMEN

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