He felt that such evil must at all cost be rooted out, and banished from amongst them. It is of no use to decry the plain meaning of the scripture because the Romanist theologian perverts the fact more fatally than the Protestant. In Palestine there are four species of hornets, differing from our hornets, being larger in size, and they are very abundant. heavily smitten, stricken, hornets, terror). are a key element in Redemption and, according to the Bible, helped the Hebrews conquer Israel after the Exodus from Egypt and like all the plagues, are prophesied to return in the end-of-days. We also refer to Egypt as the flesh consciousness, sense consciousness, or material consciousness. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. They "attack human beings in a very furious manner." I grant you this that, looked at as a whole, distressing failure was setting in just as it was here; yet as here the very failure isolated the truehearted, but isolated them not in want of love but in the strongest possible manifestation of divine charity and sense of God's glory. I sent hornets ahead of you, and it drove them out before you[just like] the two Amorite kingsnot by your sword or by your bow. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. It was the seat of Divine Majesty in Israel; and as all know (and most significant it is), the mercy-seat was pre-eminently that throne of God the mercy-seat which afterwards we see with blood sprinkled on it and before it the mercy-seat which concealed the law destructive to the pretensions of man, but maintained it in the place of highest honour, though hidden from human view. But they had no such thoughts of themselves, more than real knowledge of God. Secondly, when the blood of the victims was shed, it was sprinkled on the book as well as on the people (verses 7, 8). They must not only not worship their gods, but they must utterly overthrow them, in token of their great abhorrence of idolatry, their resolution never to worship idols themselves, and their care to prevent any other from worshipping them; as the converted conjurors burnt their books,Acts 19:19. Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. the seeming disorder of God is incomparably more orderly than man's best order. Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Hornets - Compare the marginal references. Now we are being reminded that all the thoughts that keep us from the promised land (New Jerusalem) are being driven out so that we can live there peacefully. Two dozen hornets can lay waste to an entire honeybee hive in a few hours, killing all the worker bees, taking over the hive, and claiming the larvae and pupae as a food source. Prophecy from the Bible is revealing itself as we speak. When God pleases, hornets can drive out Canaanites, as well as lions could, Joshua 24:12. Further, our Lord says, "For their sakes I sanctify myself ( i.e. Nevertheless, here as everywhere God maintains His right to call, and gives the requisite gifts. Two major battles took place. The last two verses are, I think, transitional. He ordered that there should be the Urim and the Thummim connected with the high priest's breastplate; that is the means of divine guidance for the people. Too many people are playing politics, jumping to play power or to hurt others. And finally, in verse 28, "I will send the hornet before you.". They, with Aaron to help them, aimed a blow at the throne of God by making a golden calf. Proud member We should probably understand the hornets (Exodus 23:28) figuratively. The government has called on the public to notify them via a cell-phone app concerning possible sightings. Thus solemnly did Jehovah mark His dwelling-place in the midst of His people redeemed from Egypt; and He deigned to guide their journeys through the desert also by the same sign; for when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; and if not taken up, they abode till it was. However, we find that God was pleased to give subsequently and separately, but yet in connection with the ten words, certain ordinances which concerned Israel in their worship. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." 6) The 7 Deadly Sins in the Bible Verse Proverbs 6:16-19 "There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the . "But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." Enter your email to receive new articles straight to your Inbox, The Herald of Hope Surely this is a wondrous truth, and of the greatest possible importance. God is promising you the victory, but it comes one area at a time. However, it is one of the many questions I intend to ask our Lord when we meet face to face. The context is basically the same as we saw in Exodus. We must always look upon our greatest danger to be from those that would cause us to sin against God. There has been much speculation as to whether hornets are literally meant. And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee." God discomforted them with deadly hornets! Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? According to the New York Times, the deadly hornets have been spotted in Washington. The judgment is to be fair across the board. Preachers, teach your people about Satan! Nevertheless Moses persists in his plea with Jehovah, who does not fail to try him to the utmost by adopting the language of the people. Getty Image. This accordingly was proposed. Note, 1. From verse 20 to the end of the chapter, God begins to speak about Israel's conquest of the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. What do people mean by restricting themselves to a sense of sanctification which necessarily involves in it so portentous a conclusion? The priesthood undeniably consisted of that class of persons who had the privilege and duty of going into the sanctuary on behalf of the people. the objects of such countless favours, and of such signal honour on God's part. A remarkable provision is that the ephod of the high priest, which was the most important part of his costume, had the names of the children of Israel twice over. The last chapter records, first, Jehovah's call to Moses to set up the dwelling of the appointed tent on the first day of the first month (i.e., in the second year, ver. Sometimes translated as a plague, hornets () are a key element in Redemption and, according to the Bible, helped the Hebrews conquer Israel after the Exodus from Egypt and like all the plagues, are prophesied to return in the end-of-days. Psalm 44:3-6 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. You see them really coughing and heaving, and doing this big thing and Jesus said, "Hey you're straining at a gnat, but you swallow a camel".You know, they in other areas just gloss things, change things, misinterpreted things to where they could get by with horrible things, and yet on the little, little issues, oh, did they get so picky on the little insignificant issues. Here it seems in substance the same thing as in 1 Peter 1:2. This was impossible yet. So again, I feel the term "the hornet" is probably used as a figurative expression of God's fearsome sting on the people of Canaan, and not literal hornets. It was a perfectly righteous thing therefore that God should propose terms of law. For what was presented there? Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. A new nature finds its great characteristic in dependence in weakness, or sense of weakness certainly; but the Holy Ghost gives the consciousness of power, though no doubt exercised in dependence. It is the foundation of the substratum of the new body in Christ. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, Heb. on high), that they also might be sanctified by the truth." Thus the redemption price was the basis; and on hooks made of the silver expiation money were suspended the hangings of the court which separated the sanctuary service of God from the world. If the Spirit of God has thus wrought in him, he is separated to God from what he was. Aaron's sons were then clothed, and girded for priestly work. He says that we are elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus. As far as this figure is concerned, then, our place is represented by Moses when he takes off the vail and is face to face with the glory of God Himself. When the time was come, He took a basin of water and a towel, and washed His disciples' feet. Something that we would consider spiritual. The mention of only three here actually stands for all of them, the same being a type of metaphor called synecdoche, in which one, or two or three, of related entities is merely a short form for all of them. He takes and pitches the tabernacle, it is said, "without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation." The angel answered, "As the captain of the Lord's host have I come"( Joshua 5:13-14 ). Send an Angel before them, to keep them in the way, and to bring them into the place which God has prepared ( Exodus 23:20 ). and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. In the brazen altar it is the same side of truth, but there is this characteristic difference. "Sanctified" in this sense is clearly before justification; and so the apostle puts it. Without life it is impossible for one to produce that which is according to God; and without a worthy object, nay without a divine object presented, there can be nothing to draw out divine affections. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.". God could have used actual hornets to clear out Canaan land for His people, but I don't think that's the meaning in Exodus 23. God encourages the Israelites: "You may say to yourselves, 'These nations are stronger than we are. In Scripture the hornet is referred to only by the means which Jehovah employed for the extirpation of the Canaanites. The first and foundation of all the rest is this: God would disclose Himself in some of them to man, as far as this was possible then; secondly, founded on that and growing out of it, man would be taught to draw near to God. It is the condition of a slave; nevertheless even there God has Christ before Him. This is the new division brought in and what might seem at first sight a notable irregularity, as has been observed before, is simply an effect of the perfect arrangement of God's mind. So Christ entered by His own blood entered in once for all into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption that we might have a common place with Him by blood and in the Spirit's power. This is not the time to enter into details; but hear what Moses says to Jehovah now: "See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. It is in no way the glory which is the hope of the Christian. If the Spirit of God here puts "sanctified" before "justified," our plain duty is to learn what is meant, not to wrest His word because of Popish misuse of it a misuse due largely to the common ignorance of the primary force of sanctification. He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. On Oct. 29, officials opened the nest to find most of the insects still alive. What they knew not then, they were to know hereafter, as we know it now. Evidently the language of the Spirit of God is as unambiguous, and the construction as plain and simple as possible. It is the display of God in both cases the one in the presence of God where He manifests Himself; the other in dealing with man and his wants in this world. In His love He is become a servant for ever; and He loves to be so. What for instance would be the meaning of our being practically sanctified to obedience as well as to have the blood of Jesus sprinkled upon us? Everything has its beautiful and perfect answer in the word of God; but then all is useless to the soul, except just so far as one sees and receives the Lord Jesus Christ. Hence, as duty is ever measured by responsibility, that of the Christian is according to the place in which grace has put him. Here again, the emphasis of the passage is on the greatness of God and how it is He who is guiding and protecting and fighting for Israel. What a place for us, and for us now! With the demise of Pharaoh in the Red Sea the Egyptian garrisons in the land were left without reinforcements. But it remains always true that there is this difference. For my Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and Jebusites: and I will cut them off ( Exodus 23:21-23 ). You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrown them and demolish their pillars. American Standard Version And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. When the earliest phase of things passed away when not merely there was the unbelief of the Jewish people but the unworthy sights and sounds which Satan introduced among that fair company God, always equal to the occasion, acts in the supremacy of His own grace, and brings out a deeper understanding of His truth more difficult to appreciate; not striking the people of the world perhaps in the same way, but that which I think has a more intimate character of communion with Christ Himself than anything that was found before. "In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah." The hornets can lay waste to tens of thousands of bees within. 47.]. They are only a faint and partial adumbration of the infinite reality, and could not possibly be more. His relationship was with them as they then were, redeemed from Egypt by His power and brought to Himself indeed, but only after an outward sort, neither born of God, nor justified. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. Deuteronomy 7:20 Verse Concepts Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin -; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.". - The hornet. Also known as "sparrow hornets," the wasps have an excruciatingly painful sting that can linger for hours and kill dozens of people on an annual basis. He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and God's blessing will make bread and water more refreshing and nourishing than a feast of fat things and wines on the lees without that blessing. "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought Jehovah's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. Those who reason from Israel to us, without intending it, ignore the relationship of the Christian, and set aside the bearing of redemption on our walk: so serious is that error which to many seems a pious thought, and I am sure taken up by them with the desire of honouring God and His will. Honeybees in Japan have learnt to 'cook' the hornets to death Credit: Alamy. It was from evening to morning" and of course uninterruptedly for that time. In other words, his condition financially should have nothing to do with the judgment. A DEADLY species of giant hornet has invaded the US for the first time and threatens to decimate bee populations and inflict brutal - even deadly - stings on human casualties. This is another thing, and only a consequence when the due moment arrives. Exodus 39:38-43) the sacrifice of the daily lambs which presented the continual acceptance of the people of God, with the renewed and most express assurance of His dwelling among them. PO Box 4216 "* Such was no doubt the doctrine of those whom the apostle censures as wishing to be law-teachers, understanding neither what things they say nor whereof they stoutly affirm. Although that secret terror, of which He had made mention, would be sufficient to put their enemies to flight, He states that there would also be other ready means, to rout them without any danger, or much difficulty to His people. You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.". The knowledge of Israel in the millennium will be genuine, for they shall be all taught of God. He asked to see His glory. The new nature accordingly has right affections and gracious desires; but there is power in the Spirit through Christ Jesus. It is certain therefore that all the common-places about the law as the rule of the Christian's life are practically a denial of what Christianity is. Hornets and wasps belong to the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. Poor people! They left the ground of the grace of God, which they had in no wise appreciated. Our necessary dependence upon the divine power and goodness should awe us into obedience. We ought to know heaven better than the earth. The overcoming life, coming out of the wilderness, out of the yo-yo Christian experience, where you're up and down, and up and down, into a beautiful, victorious overcoming life in Christ Jesus. It may be ever so minute, but there is habitually a dealing of Christ between the touch that stays the issue and the word which declares with no less authority than love, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." You're not to take that into consideration. Why did Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh want to live on the east of the Jordan. I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow." It is not God who thus deals with humanity, of which Israel was the chosen specimen, and the one remembered before Him; but in the seven candlesticks, or rather the candelabrum with its seven lights, we clearly see the type of Christ as the power and giver of the Holy Ghost in testimony for God. Right to call, and banished from amongst them they are very abundant: [ ]. Shall be utterly destroyed live on the public to notify them via a app! 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