WHY was Exodus 19:16-19 essential to Exodus 20?
COULD it be that God wanted to impress his Awesome Nature on Israel before they would take his Ten Words seriously? Remember that the Israelites’ long stay in Egypt had fatally compromised their understanding of God’s:
IN the year preceding the Exodus God had expressed his control of the spiritual and natural world:
Israel had to understand:
THEN…eclipsing ALL THAT, God expressed his Almighty control over meteorological forces. The entire Mt. Sinai area became his Holy Ground, as on its summit:
COULD it be that only that FINAL MAJESTY, releasing atmospheric disturbances as a symbol that united his NAME with his NATURE, prepared Israel for the LAW that controlled behavior for the next 1500 years, until Christ released the world to live forgiven under GRACE? Fini
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