1711. The Tables of the Law

The Tables of the Law

"And thou shalt put into the Ark the testimony which I shall give thee" (Exo_25:16).

We are now coming to the contents of the Ark. There were three things placed within, The Tables of the Law, The Pot of Manna, and Aaron's Rod that budded.

Just now we will consider the Tables of the Law, called here, the Testimony.

1. The Law written upon the two tables of stone was a testimony which was given of God. There are modernists and radicals who would tell us that the Ten Commandments were copied from heathen cults which antedated them.

This is impossible. The Law was given directly from God, it was written with the ringer of God.

Other religions may have copied from the Law, but it never was borrowed from them.

In Exodus 20, we read: "And God spake all these words, saying,"–and then the record of the Ten Commandments is given.

In Exo_32:16, we read: "And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables."

In Exo_31:18, the giving of the Law is described as follows: "And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

2. The Law that was written with the finger of God, was broken by man.

As Moses started down the mountain-side, God said unto him, "Thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them" (Exo_32:7-8).

Thus was the Law broken before it was received. Then, Moses coming down the mount saw the children of Israel dancing around the golden calf, and in his anger, he threw the tables of the Testimony upon the ground and brake them.

The second tables were made, and the Law was written by Moses, in the presence of God.

The type of all this is perfect. The first man Adam, and in him, all men, broke the Law, symbolized in the breaking of the first tables of stone; the second tables were unbroken, in type, because the Lord Jesus Christ kept the Law perfectly.

This brings us to our third point.

3. The Law was kept by Jesus Christ. Christ was made under the Law, and was subject to the Law; but, unlike all others, the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled every righteous claim of the Law.

It was upon this basis that Jesus Christ could be made sin for us, and that we could be made the righteousness of God in Him.

It was upon this basis that Jesus Christ could redeem us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us. (Study Gal_3:10, Gal_3:13.)

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR