WHO GAVE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
GOD THE WORD {CHRIST} or
GOD THE FATHER

WHAT DOES THE PHYSICAL EXODUS TYPIFY IN OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES.

The Passover is a physical counterpart of a spiritual event.

The coming out of Egypt is a physical counterpart of our spiritual calling out of this world.

It is God the Father who calls us.

JOHN 6 V 44 

44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

JOHN 17 V 6,9

6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

The Father calls us and at baptism we are baptised into Christ and His death.

ROM 6 V 3

3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

It was Jesus Christ who went with the Israelites in the wilderness

1 COR 10 V 1- 4

1Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Before we proceed any further it is vitally important to learn what Hebrew words denote God the Father and what words denote the Word or Christ.

H430 Elohiym can refer to God the Father or Christ or both
H3068 Yehovah, Jehovah, Yhovah or Yhvh can refer to the Father only.

It was the Father who brought the Israelites out of Egypt and gave the ten commandments.

EX 20 V 1-3

1And God spake all these words, saying, 2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Christ always put the Father above himself.

There were two Gods on the mountain when the ten commandments were given.

EX 24 V 9-11

9Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Compare verse 11 with Ex 33 v 20

EX 33 V 20

20And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

In these above verses we see some interesting facts, Ex 24 states that Moses Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy elders saw God.

You cannot look on God the Father and live so lets see the explanation

EX 24 V 1-3

1And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. 2And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 3And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

Here we see God the Father told Moses he alone could come near the Lord, but the others were permitted only to worship afar off.

Now how did Moses look on God and not die, we see plainly by the following scriptures that God the Father spoke through a cloud or fire.

EX 33 V 9

And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.

PSALM 99 V 6-7

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

These scriptures make it plain that Moses could speak to God through a cloud or fire and not be harmed, this is the way God chose to speak to him. It caused no trouble to Moses as he was able to speak to him as a friend, this following scripture face to face can also be explained:

EX 33 V 11 

11And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

The following scripture explains the above:

DEUT 5 V 4

4The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

The God who gave the ten commandments said He would not go up in the midst of the Israelites

EX 33 V 1- 3

1And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: 2And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

EX 33 V 2, 14

2And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
4And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

EX 23 V 20-21

20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

ISA 63 V 9

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

It was stated earlier that Christ went before the Israelites 1 Cor 10 v 4 so the Presence, or Angel stated in the above scriptures was indeed Christ, remember the Hebrew word for Angel can mean messenger.

This knowledge now being understood, we now confirm that it was God the Father who said He would not go up in the midst of the Israelites.

The analogy of coming out of Egypt is the perfect counterpart of our being called out of this world.

The Passover must be kept at the correct time and the above truths must be acknowledged

2 TIM 2 V 25

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

This knowledge will then lead into the true meaning of the Wave Sheaf of Lev 23 {which is discussed in an earlier article at this site} and also the true meaning of John 17 v 3

JOHN 17 V 3

3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

And

MATT 16 V 15-18

15He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Gods church is built on the foundation of verse 16.

To understand the revealed truth about God the Father and His son Jesus Christ, read our article, at this site "God the Father Revealed"

This is vital amazing truth revealed by God the Father in these last days and is vital for understanding Gods plan for man.