THE TRANSITION CHAPTER OF SCRIPTURE, THE LAW OF MOSES
(I will explain why Exodus 34 is the transition chapter of scripture, which altered the course of fulfilling the covenant promises to Abraham by putting the ORIGINAL PLAN on hold for another 3500 years (1500 years to Yahusha/Jesus first coming and another 2000 years to the Millennial reign). What you are about to read are the events occurring on Moses' SEVENTH and final trip up Mt Sinai which YHWH had attempted to enter covenant with Abraham's descendants. There should have only been THREE trips made but two things occurred: 1) the people shrank back in fear upon hearing YHWH’s voice and did not go up the mountain on trip three, and 2) the people were found worshipping the golden calf while Moses was on top of the mountain with YHWH on trip five)
In my efforts in trying to show people why the seven trips Moses made up Mt Sinai is by far the most important piece of scriptural interpretation, to my amazement, I have received much opposition. I have heard “I don’t care if Moses went up 100 times” as if I was only presenting the fact that Moses went up 7 times rather than WHY Moses went up each time to meet with he Creator. In demonstrating how it is in our nature to meet information with opposition and not by faith, I have seen people try to show Moses went up Mt Sinai 10 times, again, as if the amount of times he went up was what we are presenting. Recently, I have heard somebody oppose me saying “I have looked into the seven trips THEORY” as if Moses going up Mt Sinai seven times was some sort of a “theory”. And, just a couple of days ago I was told that “The Law of Moses is not the second set of stone tablets” because the person “is not trying to find a loophole to not obey laws”.
Moses did go up Mt Sinai seven times and this is an undisputed fact. We are going to look at Exodus chapter 34 which was the SEVENTH trip Moses made. Why do I tell you this background that this was the SEVENTH trip you are about to read? I share this emphatically because I have discovered that nobody puts any weight what-so-ever in placing scriptural events on a timeline and cannot see how important it is to examine the detail of scripture chronologically. Imagine you are looking at a pretty girl from a distance and when you approached close she wasn’t pretty at all. Maybe she wasn’t even a girl! This is exactly the approach of zooming in close to see detail will do for you. It may cause you to lose doctrines and maybe that is the fear of looking closer. Maybe you want that girl to look pretty from a distance but if she is really ugly why be afraid of looking closer? The same goes with a false doctrine of “The Law/Torah or Moses” believing it is scripturally defined as “the first five books of Moses”. If this is an ugly doctrine causing all kinds of doctrinal error, then why would you be afraid to look closer and zoom in to the details?
Detail can ONLY be examined closely by placing what you are reading in a sequence of events and having a timeline understanding. This is WHY we stress to you that knowing WHY Moses went up Mt Sinai each of his seven times is so crucial.
Before we begin, let’s view YHWH’s attitude and the immediate action He was going to take in response to finding the people worshipping the golden calf. The below response would have taken place had Moses not have interceded on the people’s behalf and pled on the unconditional blood covenant promise YHWH made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
YHWH TO DESTROY THE ISRAELITES ~ HE CALLED IT “BLOT OUT THEIR NAMES FROM UNDER HEAVEN”
And YHWH said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” And YHWH said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.” EXODUS 32:7-9
“Then YHWH said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt (CALLING THEM MOSES’ PEOPLE) have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’ “Furthermore YHWH spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people. Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and BLOT OUT THEIR NAME from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ DEUTERONOMY 9:13-14
MOSES INTERCEDED BUT THEY DID LOSE THE PRIESTHOOD CALLING IT BEING “BEING BLOTTED OUT OF HIS BOOK”
And YHWH said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. EXODUS 32:33
THE 1500 TRANSITION PERIOD TO WHEN THERE WILL BE A PROPHET TO COME AFTER MOSES -->> THIS IS YAHUSHA MESSIAH
The people shrank back in fear upon hearing YHWH’s voice on trip 3 and did not go up the mountain. This verse in Deuteronomy is telling us exactly what Moses was told 40 years earlier when this event occurred.
(spoken to Moses on TRIP 3, 40 years earlier) “YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of YHWH your Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly (SPEAKING OF MT SINAI), saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim (THEY REJECTED HEARING HIS VOICE DIRECTLY), nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die “And YHWH said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. (THIS WILL BE “THE LAW/MINISTRY OF YAHUSHA MESSIAH”) And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.’ DEUTERONOMY 18:15-19
MOSES BECAME “THE LAWGIVER” WHO SPEAKS YHWH’S WORDS TO THE PEOPLE
This TRANSITION at Mt Sinai which I am now going to describe to you the events surrounding the SEVENTH TRIP Moses made is what is scripturally defined as:
“THE LAW OF --->>> MOSES”
EXODUS CHAPTER 34 (the 7th trip Moses made as a direct result of the people worshipping the golden calf and the first set of stone tablets)
verses 1 & 2, 5 to 8, 27 to 35
MOSES CHISELS HIS OWN SET OF STONE TABLETS "LIKE THE FIRST ONES"
And YHWH said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain. EXODUS 34:-2
YHWH STANDS WITH AND PASSES BEFORE MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN
Now YHWH descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of YHWH. And YHWH passed before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH Elohim, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O YHWH, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.” EXODUS 34:5-8
MOSES WAS SHOWN YHWH’S GLORY AS MOSES WAS AGGRESSIVE IN TAKING RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD THE PEOPLE. MOSES IS THE ONLY HUMAN BEING EVER TO SEE YHWH (His backside)
Then Moses said to YHWH, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ EXODUS 33:12
(this is what was told in Exodus 33 what will happen when YHWH descends in the cloud and stood with Moses when he went up on trip 7) So YHWH said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of YHWH before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And YHWH said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” EXODUS 33:18-23
MOSES RECEIVES THE COVENANT, BUT THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST, AS THIS COVENANT IS ALSO WITH JUST MOSES (will explore what "occurred" in between the first offer)
Then YHWH said to Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you (with Moses) and with Israel.” So he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. EXODUS 34:27-28
MOSES FACE WAS TOO BRIGHT TO LOOK AT ~ MOSES HAD YHWH’S GLORY UPON HIM
Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. EXODUS 34:29-30
MOSES GIVES THE PEOPLE ALL THE COMMANDMENTS SPOKEN TO HIM
Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that YHWH had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. EXODUS 34:31-32
MOSES WEARS A VEIL OVER HIS FACE
And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. But whenever Moses went in before YHWH to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; EXODUS 34:33
MOSES WOULD COME OUT AND SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHEN HE WAS COMMANDED
and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him. EXODUS 34:34-35
MOSES WAS MEETING IN HIS TENT WHICH HE MOVED FAR AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE AFTER THE GOLDEN CALF ~ YHWH SPOKE TO MOSES FACE TO FACE AS A MAN SPEAKS TO HIS FRIEND (this was the pre-incarnate Son as the Messenger of YHWH Moses was receiving instructions by)
Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought YHWH went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and YHWH talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So YHWH spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle. EXODUS 33:7-11
PAUL CALLS THIS TRANSITION: “THE MINISTRY OF DEATH”
Before we look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3 please realize that there was an ORIGINAL SPOKEN PLAN given at Mt Sinai which “The Prophet to come after Moses” was told will come in the future upon Moses’ 3rd trip after the people shrank back in fear and did not come up the mountain with Moses. This Prophet to come (being Yahusha/Jesus Messiah) wrote the Ten Words, the SPOKEN TERMS OF THE COVENANT, on our hearts and minds in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-33/Hebrews 8:8-10) and renewed the spoken offer of making the people: 1) A kingdom of Priests, 2) A set apart (holy) nation, and 3) His special treasured possession (Exodus 19:4-6, 1 Peter 2:9)
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3
Comparing “THE MINISTRY OF DEATH” (The Law of Moses) to “THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT”
comparison:
~ We are an epistle of Messiah written on tablets of hearts by the Spirit of Elohim VERSES written on tablets of stone
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Messiah, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, NOT ON TABLETS OF STONE but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-4
~ We are made ministers of the new covenant by the Spirit (INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN US DIRECTLY BY THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH) VERSES by the letter (TOLD TO THEM BY A MEDIATOR, MOSES)
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from Elohim, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, NOT OF THE LETTER but of the Spirit; 2 CORINTHIANS 3:5-6
~ We have been given the ministry of righteousness VERSES the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of death, which The Law of Moses (second set of stone tablets, covenant) came with a penalty of immediate death for breaking the law. We receive grace by giving us time to become righteous and quite sinning.
for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if THE MINISTRY OF DEATH, WRITTEN AND ENGRAVED ON STONES, was glorious, so that the children of Israel COULD NOT LOOK STEADILY AT THE FACE OF MOSES BECAUSE OF THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTENANCE, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if THE MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION HAD GLORY, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
~ We have boldness of speech VERSES not being able to look at Moses
Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— unlike Moses, who PUT A VIEL OVER HIS FACE so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at THE END (THE END OF THE LAW OF MOSES ~ ROMANS 10:4) of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded.
~ The viel remains for those under the first covenant VERSES the viel is taken away in Messiah. We have unveiled faces and have His glory being transformed to same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of YHWH.
For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Messiah. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away. Now YHWH is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of YHWH is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of YHWH, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of YHWH. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-18
SUMMARY OF THE TRANSITION UPON MOSES’ SEVENTH TRIP UP MT SINAI
- The covenant was made with Moses, the second set of stone tablets
- This covenant was not blood ratified as opposed to the first plan which was (Exodus 24:7-8)
- The was no acceptance on the people’s part because it was a “take it or leave it agreement” being mediated on their behalf by Moses
- There was no covenant meal as opposed to the first agreement they broke (Exodus 24:12)
- YHWH called the people Moses’ people
- The ORIGINAL SPOKEN OFFER came with CONDITIONS that “If they obey My voice” and “keep My covenant” they would become a kingdom of priests and holy nation. They both REJECTED HIS VOICE by shrinking back in fear by sending Moses on their behalf and they then BROKE HIS COVENANT with the sin of the golden calf
- The Levites killed 3000 as punishment for breaking of the covenant by worshipping the golden calf. They in turn TRANSITIONED and received the PRIESTHOOD. This verse clearly states this TRANSITION that they received the priesthood THROUGH THE LAW OF MOSES (GIVEN ON THE SEVENTH TRIP): HEBREWS 7:11-12 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law/THE LAW OF MOSES), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law (THE LAW OF MOSES to THE LAW OF MESSIAH).
- The other 11 tribes were EXCHANGED their firstborn inheritance rights with the Levites. This is an extremely important issue to know, because without firstborn inheritance rights you WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR INHERITANCE. By us not being found sinning as they did at Mt Sinai we will not be disqualified with our inheritance rights as being made FIRSTBORN in Messiah.
- Moses moved his tent outside the camp
- Moses received YHWH’s glory
- Moses met with Him face to face, above the mercy seat and in between the cherubim of the ark of the Covenant, inside his tent
- Moses wore a veil to cover his face
- Moses now, from this point on, is the only one who will give “instructions/laws” to the people. He becomes “THE LAWGIVER” and that is the reason the straightforward definition of this covenant is called THE LAW [of who?] MOSES!!!
- The instructions for the Book of Leviticus was simultaneously given on this SEVENTH TRIP Moses made for 40 days. The first seven chapters are the SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM. The sacrificial system is directly attached to this covenant as the Book of Leviticus is the statutes and decrees of administering this covenant.
SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION COMES TO LIFE by defining “The Law of Moses” as a temporary covenant that ENDED with the New Covenant
These are just a few verses describing “The Law of Moses” as a temporary covenant.
“ENDED” (Romans 10:4)
“WAS FULFILLED” (Matthew 5:17)
“WAS FULFILLED CONCERNING YAHUSHA" (Luke 24:44)
“NOT OF FAITH” (Galatians 3:12)
“MADE NOTHING PERFECT” (Hebrews 7:19)
“ADDED FOR TRANSGRESSIONS” (Galatians 3:19)
“KEPT UNDER GUARD BY" (Galatians 3:23)
“THE GUARDIAN/TUTOR” (Galatians 3:24)
“AFTER FAITH CAME (SPEAKING OF YAHUSHA/JESUS) WE WERE NO LONGER IN NEED OF A GUARDIAN/TUTOR” (GALATIANS 3:25)
"CHANGED W THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD” (Hebrews 7:11-12)
"WAS ‘UNTIL’ JOHN" (Luke 16:16)
"WAS ‘UNTIL’ THE SEED TO WHOM THE PROMISE REFERRED HAD COME" (Galatians 3:19)
"WAS 'UNTIL' SHILOH COMES" (Genesis 49:10)
"WHAT YAHUSHA WAS BORN ‘UNDER THE LAW’ TO REDEEM THOSE ‘UNDER THE LAW’" (Galatians 4:4-5)
“APART FROM ‘THE LAW’ A RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MADE KNOWN” (Romans 3:21)
"PUT THEM ‘UNDER LAW’" (Romans 6:14-15)
“LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT ‘UNDER THE LAW’” (Galatians 5:18)
“FREED FROM THE LAW” (Romans 7:4)
“DELIVERED FROM THE LAW” (Romans 7:6)
“COULD NOT JUSTIFY YOU” (Acts 13:39)
“NOBODY IS JUSTIFIED BY” (Galatians 3:11)
"CAME THROUGH MOSES" (John 1:17)
“FALLEN FROM GRACE BY LEAVING MESSIAH" (Galatians 5:4)
“MINISTRY OF DEATH” (2 Corinthians 3:7)
“MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION” (2 Corinthians 3:9)
“THE LETTER KILLS ENGRAVED ON STONE TABLETS” (2 Corinthians 3:6)
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