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Exodus 24:1-18

The first covenant is instituted with all due solemnity. It is sealed with blood (read Hebrews 9:18 . . .). Then the LORD shows some of the rays of His glory to the elders of Israel. They see "under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in its clearness". (v. 10; cf. Ezekiel 1:26). Under His feet . . .: we think of the glorious pathway of the Son of God, as the gospels present it to us, a pathway "like the heaven in its clearness (purity)". Christ not only "came down from heaven" and "ascended up into heaven", but there is a sense in which He never ceased to be the "Son of Man which is in heaven" (John 3:13). It is in the walk of Christ down here that the glory of God can be admired in all its moral perfections (Psalms 68:24). "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" said Jesus to His disciples (John 14:9). V. 11 is the foreshadowing of the holy liberty and of the communion which the redeemed of the Lord Jesus now enjoy. On the basis of the finished work of Christ and His presence at the right hand of God, they are in one sense "at home" in the glory.

We are reminded too of Moses on another mountain: the mount of transfiguration, where he was the witness with Elijah and the three disciples of the glory of the Lord Jesus (Luke 9:28-36).

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