glory and brightness and the sound of a trumpet. When Jesus comes the Second Time it will be as a King to bring rewards to His people – those who have been faithful and obedient to Him in spite of circumstances and the customs around them. The dead will be raised by the shout of God, and the voice of the trumpet. Psalm 50:2,3 states,
Our God shall come and shall not keep silent, a fire shall devour before Him and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that He may judge His people.
The descendants of the great men of the past had almost forgotten God. They had seen the wonders of their deliverance from Egypt, the plagues, their safety under the blood when the angel of death passed over, and the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea when all seemed hopeless.
God had given them so many evidences of His love and care, and these tokens of His kindness were not just limited to the Children of Israel. There were some Egyptians who had attached themselves to the company and they were also included in the care.
Now the voice of God rang over the wilderness waste, saying,
I am the Lord thy God. Exodus 20:2.
They were terrified; even Moses ‘quaked greatly and was terrified’. God knew the effect of His presence on sinful people, and even at this solemn time He was thinking of their best good and asked Moses to make sure that no one came too close or they would be hurt or killed.
He went on to speak, and declared the Ten Commandments.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.