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Exodus 23:24-25
Excerpted from: Manasseh

But it comes up again in the chapter. He actually says a similar thing three times in this final long paragraph so that they make sure they get the point. In verses 24-26 it is said again, but this time it is more focused on worshipping false gods.

So He gives them again the negative and the positive, telling them what they need to do to make sure they stay on the positive side. But notice here that the disobedience that God has His eye on, most particularly, is the worshipping of foreign gods—of other gods. That is the one that He wants to see least of all because it is the worst of all. It is the thing that leads into even greater sins of other kinds. He makes sure He lets them know “Make sure you get this one sin off the table. Make sure you do it right in regard to this one sin in particular.” Because that is the bad one and that is the one He had His eye on.

Most of all, He does not want Israel to have anything to do with the gods of this world, especially the gods of that land (or any other god). But He was sending them into this land and He knew that they were going to be tempted by these other gods because they were particularly sensual gods—gods that appealed to their senses, their sexuality, and their worst base instincts—and it was going to be a big trial, a big temptation. He made sure He let them know that they needed to be on guard against this.

He goes on to say, as we go down into this closing paragraph here, that He wants their idols and their altars utterly destroyed and smashed to pieces. “Get them totally out of the land. Don’t let them crop back up. They’re going to be a snare to you. They’re going to cause problems, so get them out of the way. Don’t let your eyes linger on them.”

Exodus 23:21-24
Excerpted from: Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part 5)

In the context immediately following the making of the covenant, (that is where we are now here in Exodus 23), the cloud is not mentioned with any authority, but the Angel is. The Angel has already been established as being in the cloud, so adding the cloud was not necessary. I think if you will look in your Bible you will see that the translators have capitalized "Angel." This is because they clearly recognized that this Angel in the cloud is divine, and is in fact Jesus Christ, as we will have confirmed in the New Testament.

Now something very significant is added. Israel is told that they do not merely follow the cloud, but they are to obey the voice—the words of the Angel—in the cloud. They are told that if they do obey His voice, blessings will follow. Most specifically, they are commanded not to commit idolatry—that is, conduct that would specifically be a violation of the first four commandments.

Exodus 23:24
Excerpted from: I Know Your Works

This is specifically speaking here about their works in a religious sense; things that they did that their religion caused them to do.

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