Join us as Rabbi Schneider masterfully unpacks the glory of God as revealed to Moses, bringing to light the compassion and grace that underscore God’s interactions across the biblical narrative. Discover how the prophetic visions in both the Old and New Testaments collectively point to an omnipotent God, transcending human limitations and time. The episode also emphasizes the continuous relevance of God’s nature in the lives of believers, encouraging faith and trust in His eternal goodness and mercy.
What we’re saying once again is the nature of God revealed in the Hebrew Bible is the same as what we see revealed in the New Testament. as I continue a series that I’m calling, How Jesus, How Yeshua, Completes Biblical Judaism. I’m talking about, listen, to begin with, how the Hebrew scriptures that we call the Tanakh and the B’rit Hadashah or the New Testament fit together like a hand in a glove. I ended last episode by talking about what the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament tell us about God’s nature. In other words, many times believers have a concept that the God of the Hebrew Bible, the God of what they call the Old Testament, is primarily a harsh lawgiver that kind of mercilessly punishes people for their sin, whereas they view the God in the New Testament primarily as a God of grace and love. And it seems inconsistent. People are confused. How could the God of the Old Testament, many think, be the same God that I see revealed in the New Testament? They don’t look at the God of the Old Testament as a God of grace. They see him of a God of law and justice. And they look in the New Testament, they see a God of grace. And it seems to many to be two different gods. And so to dial it back, I showed how the most exalted attribute that we see revealed of who God is in the Hebrew Bible is his holiness. And we went to the book of Isaiah, chapter number six, where Isaiah was permitted to see the Lord in heaven on his throne. And Isaiah describes what he saw in Isaiah six. And Isaiah said, I saw him high and exalted, high and lifted up. And there were these divine beings around him, these seraphim, and they didn’t cease crying out day and night. Isaiah said, kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, which is the Hebrew word for holy. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole earth is full of His glory. So once again, Isaiah sees the Lord on the throne with these divine beings around the throne that don’t cease crying out day and night, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. It’s the only time in the entire Hebrew Bible, the entire Tanakh, where we find a threefold repetition of one of God’s attributes. In other words, we know that God is all-powerful, but nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures do we see Him referred to as all-powerful, all-powerful, all-powerful, or all-righteous, all-righteous, all-righteous. Only once is there a threefold repetition, and it’s in reference, beloved ones, to His holiness. Now take that, and let’s take this to the New Testament. When we read through the New Testament, do we find that within the pages of the Brihad Hashah, which once again is the Hebrew way to say the New Covenant Scriptures, the New Testament, is there an attribute of God that seems to be exalted more than any others? To answer this question, we went to the book of Revelation. Because the book of Revelation is a book like no other book in the New Testament, the Brihad Hashah. Because in the book of Revelation, John, he’s on the island of Patmos. He had been exiled there because of his faith. He’s all alone there. And on the Lord’s day, John says, he heard the spirit of the Lord call to him. Come up here. And immediately the scripture says John was caught up in the spirit and was permitted to see the Lord on his throne in the heavens, just like Isaiah did in Isaiah 6. This takes place once again in the book of Revelation chapter 4. John describes what he saw for us, and John says he saw the Lord once again on the throne, and there were these divine beings around the throne, and John said they did not cease crying out day or night, listen, Holy, holy, holy. So we find that the New Testament and the Old Testament are completely in sync in the sense that they exalt God’s holiness above all His other attributes. This is the only time in the New Testament where any of God’s attributes are repeated three times, just as it’s the only attribute in the Old Testament where any of God’s attributes are repeated three times. In both the Old and New, the threefold repetition is of God’s holiness. Now, what is God’s holiness? We’ve just learned that the Old and New Testaments are consistent in that they show us that the most exalted attribute of the Creator is His holiness. But what is holiness? Holiness has to do with being completely other than, completely, listen, unique. In other words, holiness has many different forms. It speaks of God’s morality. It speaks of many different colors of meaning are in the word holiness. But the primary meaning of kadosh or holy, listen, is to be completely unique and separate. In other words, God is not like any other. I quoted on one of the earlier broadcasts in this series that in the book of Isaiah, the Lord spoke to the prophet and said, I am God and there is no other. I form light and I create darkness. I cause well-being and I create calamity. I am the Lord who does all these things. God alone, listen now, is uncreated. God alone reigns. God is the uncreated, limitless one. He has no beginning. He has no end. He exists outside of time. He exists outside of space. He is the cause. that has no cause. He’s the ground of all being. He is and he is completely other than, totally unique. Everything else is created life. God is uncreated life. No beginning, no end. He is eternity. So once again, beloved ones, as we look at how the Old and New Testaments, how the Tanakh and the B’richad Hashah, the New Testament, fit together like a hand in a glove, we find that they both teach us that God’s most exalted attribute is his otherness. He is completely unique and separate. Let’s continue on. Oftentimes, once again, people get confused because they see the God of the Hebrew Scriptures as primarily a harsh lawgiver, whereas they view the God of the New Testament as a God of grace, Almost like, forgive me for saying it, but I’m just using a little humor, like God has two personalities, like he’s got a split personality disorder, like he was one person in the Old Testament and suddenly becomes a happy God in the New Testament. And it’s like, what’s going on? But the truth is, beloved, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now hear me, and he’s always been a God, listen, of grace. Many believers don’t understand that even as the New Testament teaches and portrays our God as a God that’s full of grace, so too The pages of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, also reveal that God, listen, is a God of grace. David said in Psalm number 86, verse 15, but you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth. Once again, David, he was so close to God. The Lord said about David, that David was a man after God’s own heart. David had a very tender relationship with God. He knew God. This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. David said to the Lord, he said, your gentleness has made me great.” Now remember, beloved ones, this is an Old Testament word. David, the king of Israel, said to the Lord, your gentleness, O God, has made me great. He knew God as a God of grace. And so what we’re saying once again is the nature of God revealed in the Hebrew Bible is the same as what we see revealed in the New Testament.
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I think the most profound revelation that we have in the Hebrew Bible, and specifically the Torah, which is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, I think the most profound revelation that we have, folks, in the Hebrew Bible is found in the book of Exodus, chapter number 34, the book of Shemot in Hebrew. Moses was described by the Lord, listen now, as the humblest man on the earth and as a man that knew him, listen, face to face. Moses is referred to as the face to face prophet because God said he knew Moses face to face. We know the story of Moses. Most of us, God called Moses and raised him up to be the deliverer of Israel out of Egypt. So I’m going to take you now to the 34th chapter, the 34th chapter of the book of Exodus, the book of Shemot, and I want to show you something that is truly incredible. Moses was kind of insecure because remember, even when God first called Moses and Moses met God at the burning bush and Moses said, but Lord, you know, I stutter. How am I going to do this? Moses was very insecure about his calling. And so this insecurity had to be continually reassured by Father God. God had to continually tell Moses that he was adequate because God was making him adequate. So Moses is still dialoguing with God. How am I going to do this, God? How can I lead them to the promised land? How are they going to believe me? And Moses keeps on looking for reassurances. And finally, Moses says to the Lord, Lord, if you don’t go with me, I’m not going to go. And then Moses climaxes. He says this. He says, listen, show me your glory. And so God says to Moses, Moses, I’m going to show you my glory to give Moses the confidence that was required. With that in mind, I take you now to Exodus 33, verse 18. Then Moses said, I pray you, show me your glory. And he said, I myself will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. And I’ll be gracious to him. I will be gracious and I’ll show compassion to him. I will show compassion. But he said, you cannot see my face for no man can see my face and live. Then the Lord said, behold, there is a place by me and you shall stand there on the rock and it will come about while my glory is passing by that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. And so we continue the story in Exodus 34. Moses has gone into the cleft of the rock now, and he’s calling upon the name of the Lord. He’s calling upon the name Yahweh. And as he’s in the cleft of the rock, beloved, calling upon the name of the Lord, we pick up. Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh God, we just translated the Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin, Yet it will by no means leave the guilty go unpunished. Visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations, Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship. Now, once again, I want you to take a step back and listen very carefully. This is the most profound and full revelation of God’s nature to anybody in the Hebrew Bible. As Moses is in the cleft of the rock, Calling upon the name of his God, the Lord himself comes to Moshe, to Moses, and breathes into him and fills him, beloved one, with revelation, light, and knowledge. So when the Lord began to proclaim his name over Moses and speak into Moses who he was, Moses didn’t just hear words. Moses was filled with the depth and understanding of what those words meant. Let me give you an example of what I’m explaining by this. Years ago, I went through a real dilemma in my life because I saw a lot of failure happening in the lives of God’s people. In other words, I saw so many people that talked about the Lord and talked about Jesus, and yet it seemed like there were just so many failures happening in their life. I’m not talking about one here or one there, but it just seemed like their life was a continual life of defeat. And it didn’t make sense to me because the scriptures tell us that we should have victory in our lives in Jesus. that we should have a supernatural joy, that we should be able to live above our circumstances, that we’re more than conquerors through all these things. But I got to the place where I just said, Lord, it’s not making sense. These people that I’m seeing, they’re all saying they believe in you, and yet they seem to have one problem after another problem after another problem. I don’t understand how they can be living in almost perpetual defeat and yet believe in you. And unless you show me what’s going on, Lord, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to trust you for myself because if they say they believe in you and it appears like you’re not fulfilling your purpose in their life and that they’re failing and falling, how can I trust that you’re going to give me victory and fulfill your purpose in my life? So I said, Lord, I just got to stop and just wait for you to answer me because I can’t go on until I understand this dilemma. So I was really at a crisis in my faith. I was at a standstill. It was like, Lord, I can’t go on until you answer this question for me. And so I was in this place of just waiting on God for several days. There was a sadness in my heart because I needed an answer, but I also had faith that he was going to answer. So in the midst of this, after several days, just being sad and waiting on God, the Lord spoke to me. And he said to me, the reason you’re seeing what you’re seeing is because my people are not, listen, and I heard him specifically say, are not trusting me. But when he said the word trust to me, he said it to me in a way that the word trust was filled with revelation knowledge. And what was in the word trust was the word cling. He said the word trust, but the word trust was filled with the meaning of the word cling. So he was saying to me, my people are falling because they’re not clinging to me. They’re leading lives apart from me. But he used the word trust. The reason I’m sharing that story, beloved, is that when Moses heard the Lord proclaim who he was, Moses didn’t just hear the words. He knew what the meaning of the words were. He was filled with revelation, light of the meaning of the words. God is revealing himself to Moses. So listen what happens. Moses, once again, is in the cleft of the rock. The Lord comes, verse number six, Exodus 34. The Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, the Lord, Yahweh God, listen, compassionate and gracious. The first thing that the Lord reveals to Moses concerning his nature is that he’s compassionate and gracious. God doesn’t tell Moses, well, Moses, I’m a harsh lawgiver. Moses, I am a moral God. And if someone doesn’t live up to my moral nature, I’m going to strike them down instantly for their sin. No. When Moses encounters Hashem, when he encounters the Lord, beloved one, the God he encounters is above all else, listen now, compassionate and gracious. Now, I know I said God’s chief attribute is his holiness, and that’s true. He is separate, unique, uncreated life. He’s like no other. But the nature of this God is, first of all, listen, compassionate and gracious. Now, isn’t this what the New Testament reveals? Do you see what I’m saying, church? The Old and New Testaments are consistent in what they teach us concerning who God is. They’re not two inconsistent portions of the Bible. Rather, they fit together like a hand in a glove. God wants you to know, beloved ones, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He’s a compassionate and a gracious God. He loves you and I. He loves you the same today as He did yesterday and as He will tomorrow. And He knows we’re but dust. And beloved, as long as we look to Him, humbly. He’s always going to have compassion on us. He’s always going to help us, and he’s always going to place his favor upon us, which comes from the word grace. He’s a gracious God, meaning he shows us favor and blesses us, even if we don’t deserve it. I want you to continue to join me on this series, beloved. God is going to bring peace to your heart as you understand once again how the Old and New Testaments fit together for you like a hand in a glove. 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The words from the Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, verses 22 through 27, helps us to realize how good God is to you and I personally. So receive his blessing into your life, and then beloved one, go bless somebody else in Jesus’ name today.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider explains why God’s nature is consistent. That’s coming up Friday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
Join us as Rabbi Schneider masterfully unpacks the glory of God as revealed to Moses, bringing to light the compassion and grace that underscore God’s interactions across the biblical narrative. Discover how the prophetic visions in both the Old and New Testaments collectively point to an omnipotent God, transcending human limitations and time. The episode also emphasizes the continuous relevance of God’s nature in the lives of believers, encouraging faith and trust in His eternal goodness and mercy.
