18/10/2023
🏵️Deuteronomy 5:3, 4🏵️
“The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us,who are all of us here alive this day. The LORD talked with you face toface in the mount out of the midst of the fire.”
⭕Some conclude from this text that the Ten Commandments were notknown before the written law at Mount Sinai.
⭕However,the evidence isall to the contrary. Cain knew it was a sin to murder.
⭕Joseph calledadultery a sin, and God said, “Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept mycharge, my commandments, my statutes and my laws” (Genesis 26:5).
🌼In these verses, Moses is impressing upon them the solemn fact ofGod’s visit with them on Sinai, and the covenant law He delivered tothem.
⭕Moses said, “The LORD talked with you face to face”—something
He had not done with their fathers.
⭕The fathers were dead; they had notseen the mountain smoke; they had not heard the majestic voice of Godspeak the law.
🌼 “The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but
with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.”
⭕This does not mean that their fathers had not been acquainted withthe provisions of the covenant.
⭕They simply had not had the covenantterms spelled out in written form before them. Many years later,Jeremiah reminded the leaders of Israel about the law covenant at Sinai.
⭕He reminded them that God said this is the covenant “Which Icommanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of theland of Egypt, … saying, Obey my voice, … That I may perform the oathwhich I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing withmilk and honey …” (Jeremiah 11:4, 5).
⭕So obviously their fathers hadreceived the promise in the everlasting covenant, but not face to face, asat Sinai.
