There are several important mountaintop experiences described in the Scriptures. This account of the Lord appearing to Moses and giving His law to the children of Israel is, to say the least, a weighty mountaintop experience. We read of another crucial New Testament mountaintop experience in the Gospels when Jesus went up on the Mount of Transfiguration. He took Peter, James, and John to the top of the mountain and was then transformed (metamorphosed or changed) right before their eyes, giving them a true view of God the Son in all His weight and glory.<\/p>\n
But there is another mountaintop that is even more important than either Sinai or the Mount of Transfiguration. Even though it is not a very large mountain, Calvary (or Golgotha), where the Savior was crucified, looms higher than any other mountain on the earth. Moses had the privilege on top of Mount Sinai to meet with the Lord face-to-face, as the people of Israel waited at the bottom for Moses to come back down and tell them what they were to do. And since Jesus has been sacrificed for us on Mount Calvary, we, like Moses, have been given the great privilege of meeting with God and coming into His presence through worship and His Word.<\/p>\n
The writer of Hebrews tells us in 10:19 that we may enter the Holy of Holies, His throne room of Grace, because of the blood of Jesus Christ. We no longer have to wait at the bottom of the mountain for revelation. It has been given to us in God’s word. All we need to do is be faithful to our responsibility of reading and being obedient.<\/p>\n
“Thank you, LORD, for Your Word of direction and correction for us this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exodus 24 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the\u00a0LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses alone shall come near the\u00a0LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. 3<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses came and told the people all the words of the\u00a0LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath said will we do.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses wrote all the words of the\u00a0LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.\u00a05<\/sup>And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses took half of the blood, and put\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath said will we do, and be obedient.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath made with you concerning all these words. 9<\/sup> Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And they saw the God of Israel: and\u00a0there was\u00a0<\/em>under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in\u00a0his\u00a0<\/em>clearness.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. 12<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.\u00a016<\/sup>And the glory of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And the sight of the glory of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are several important mountaintop experiences described in the Scriptures. 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