Chapter 15:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Genesis Leviticus
Exodus 15
The
Song of Triumph of deliverance effected and of hope of
entering the Sanctuary
Hereupon we enter the
desert. They sing (chap. 15) the song of triumph. God has
led them by His power to His holy habitation. But they
are on this journey, not in Canaan. He will lead them
into the place which He has made, which His hands have
established. Their enemies shall be unable to oppose
themselves to this. So with us. There is a third thing
which is found in this beautiful song—the desire to
build a tabernacle for Jehovah. This is one of the great
privileges which are the result of redemption. God did
not dwell with Adam innocent, nor with Abraham, vessel of
promise and root of the enjoyment of it. But when
redemption was accomplished, on the one hand, God was
fully revealed; and, on the other, man perfectly
redeemed. Then God naturally, so to speak, comes to dwell
with men as amongst them (Ex. 29: 46). Here it is an
external deliverance; for us an eternal; but the
principle, a blessed and important one, is clearly
brought out. And note this desire is not our dwelling
with God, though the thoughts are linked one with
another, but His dwelling with us; and the heart's desire
is that He should do so down here. It will never really
be effectually so, till verse 17 be accomplished; but the
desire is good, like David's, and we are now builded
together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
There are the three things: we are brought to God's holy
habitation; there is the desire to prepare Him one; and,
then, that which He has prepared. The tabernacle belonged
to the wilderness; what they sing is the deliverance
effected already by the power of God, and the hope of
entering into the sanctuary which the hands of Jehovah
have made [
1].
Still on the way
to glory, consciousness of deliverance accompanied by joy
The deliverance, then, of
the people is accompanied by a full and entire joy,
which, having the consciousness of this complete
deliverance by the power of God, grasps the whole extent
of His intentions towards them, and knows how to apply
this same power to the destruction of all the power of
the enemy [
2].
They sing the deliverance of God, note, before a step has
been taken in the desert. The soul, in connection with
Egypt (that is in the flesh on the ground of a child of
Adam), not only is responsible, but its position with
God, dependent on its acting up to this responsibility,
is still uncertain and in fear. The desert may be never
so bitter and trying; but we are free and with God there
(brought to His holy habitation), through the redemption
and deliverance of God. But the redeemed one is looked at
still as on the way to glory, not yet in possession of
the promised dwelling-place of God. We are come to God's
habitation, to God Himself, but the prepared place is
future. Edom and Moab will be still as a stone, but the
people have yet to pass over. This difference is
important to notice. However, the redeemed soul is looked
at in both ways; as in Christ, where as to acceptance all
is settled—"as he is so are we in this
world" giving boldness for the day of judgment (1
John 4: 17); and as in the wilderness, where faith is put
to the test. For the wilderness is what the world is for
the new man.
Redemption
accomplished, God dwells among His people, entailing
holiness
Remark here too some other
important elements of the position of the people. First,
it is a people. This till then there had never been: just
men by grace, believers, called ones, there had been;
now, though according to the flesh, these are a people of
God on the earth. This was based on redemption wrought by
God. Further, God, as we have seen, dwells amongst His
people on earth when redemption is accomplished. That is
the distinct fruit of redemption; He had not dwelt with
innocent Adam; He had not with called Abraham; He does
with redeemed Israel [
3].
But thirdly, this dwelling of God, His presence, brings
in the definite claim of holiness. Holiness becomes His
house for ever. We do not find holiness mentioned in
Genesis, if it be not sanctifying the sabbath day. The
moment redemption is accomplished, He is glorious in
holiness, and there is a holy habitation. All these are
important principles.
[1] It is practically important to see that the wilderness is
no part of God's purpose; of His ways, a most important
part. They were brought to God by
redemption—Christ's death and resurrection—but
not in Canaan. The thief went straight to Paradise with
Christ. He has made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light. See Exodus 3, 6 and
15, where there is no question of the wilderness; see on
the other hand, Deuteronomy 8, where it is reviewed when
through it. For the difference of our spiritual judgment
of ourselves, and God's judgment of us, see Deuteronomy 9
and Numbers 23: 21.
[2] The wilderness formed no part of the counsel of God as we
have seen, and the song does not refer to it, to its
sorrows or its joys, nor the provision for it. That, as
far as revealed here, belongs to the book of Numbers.
[3] Exodus 29:46.
Chapter 15:
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