Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 19:7.
Exodus 19:7-9
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Three): Divine KingThis is the grounds, you might say, the foundation for why He comes down on the mount and gives them the Ten Commandments and the ensuing covenant that is in the next few chapters. But He is laying it out in very large parameters here.
We talked about God setting up the situation and that He wanted to formalize the relationship with the children of Israel, which, you know, in terms of the covenant, required their obedience and then His reciprocal blessing of them.
Now for our purposes today, the vital part of this exchange that we have between or among the people, Moses, and God is in verse 9, the last one that we read here. God says, "I come to you in the thick cloud." God would come to them for the people to hear His voice themselves. And what was the reaction after they heard? They would believe.
"Faith comes by hearing." Does Paul not say that in Romans? And so God was going to put an exclamation point on His instructions by giving them Himself—directly to the people. Now we know by the end of the chapter they are saying, "No, no, no! Don't let Him speak to us! You go up, Moses."
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