The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
The Lord talked directly face to face with Israel at Horeb, also called Sinai and Mount Sinai, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, described as a fiery cloud, to give the Ten Commandments and make His covenant and requirements known. That covenant was made not with their fathers but with the people then living. Moses called all Israel together at the river Jordan when the appointed time to possess Canaan was at hand to recount that giving of the law. Many were too young to remember it or had been born in the wilderness, and few were old enough to have comprehended its awful solemnity, so God directed him to retell the circumstances of that great and grand event given with great grandeur. He was to rehearse the deliverance from Egypt and the wilderness journeyings, repeat the law, and present the claims of His law before they passed over Jordan to take the promised land.
Within Deuteronomy 4-8 the verse introduces what God required in commandments, statutes and judgments that Israel might be a holy people to Himself. Moses urged them to hear those statutes and judgments that day to learn them and keep and do them. Namely that He is the Lord who brought them out of Egypt, to have no other gods, make no graven image nor bow to them, not take His name in vain, keep the seventh-day Sabbath holy with rest for all and remembrance of deliverance from Egypt, honor father and mother for long life and well-being in the given land, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness, or covet neighbor's wife, house, field, servants, cattle or anything his. In this wilderness setting Christ continually presented God's commands to the wilderness church, including the command to keep the seventh day holy.
The commandments Moses repeated were spoken by God and remain for study and practice in principle for their true meaning. They were recalled to remind the people of their solemn pledge to govern words and actions by God's law. That instruction calls for sanctification of mind, soul and body and for perfect obedience to God's will and holy commandments, for which no excuse for disobedience is accepted. Those commandments must still be learned, kept and done, with obedience enjoined as the condition of prosperity. Reverence for God means obeying His law and disobedience forfeits His cooperation and blessing, leaving those who profess to serve Him yet refuse His precepts clouded by unbelief. The same instruction is to be studied now with profit because the day of God's great final review is near when all must stand before the Judge of all the earth in this present time of investigation when every character is investigated and every case decided for eternity.
The Lord talked directly face to face with Israel at Horeb, also called Sinai and Mount Sinai, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, described as a fiery cloud, to give the Ten Commandments and make His covenant and requirements known. That covenant was made not with their fathers but with the people then living. Moses called all Israel together at the river Jordan when the appointed time to possess Canaan was at hand to recount that giving of the law. Many were too young to remember it or had been born in the wilderness, and few were old enough to have comprehended its awful solemnity, so God directed him to retell the circumstances of that great and grand event given with great grandeur. He was to rehearse the deliverance from Egypt and the wilderness journeyings, repeat the law, and present the claims of His law before they passed over Jordan to take the promised land.
Within Deuteronomy 4-8 the verse introduces what God required in commandments, statutes and judgments that Israel might be a holy people to Himself. Moses urged them to hear those statutes and judgments that day to learn them and keep and do them. Namely that He is the Lord who brought them out of Egypt, to have no other gods, make no graven image nor bow to them, not take His name in vain, keep the seventh-day Sabbath holy with rest for all and remembrance of deliverance from Egypt, honor father and mother for long life and well-being in the given land, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness, or covet neighbor's wife, house, field, servants, cattle or anything his. In this wilderness setting Christ continually presented God's commands to the wilderness church, including the command to keep the seventh day holy.
The commandments Moses repeated were spoken by God and remain for study and practice in principle for their true meaning. They were recalled to remind the people of their solemn pledge to govern words and actions by God's law. That instruction calls for sanctification of mind, soul and body and for perfect obedience to God's will and holy commandments, for which no excuse for disobedience is accepted. Those commandments must still be learned, kept and done, with obedience enjoined as the condition of prosperity. Reverence for God means obeying His law and disobedience forfeits His cooperation and blessing, leaving those who profess to serve Him yet refuse His precepts clouded by unbelief. The same instruction is to be studied now with profit because the day of God's great final review is near when all must stand before the Judge of all the earth in this present time of investigation when every character is investigated and every case decided for eternity.