1736. What Moses Claimed for the Pentateuch
What Moses Claimed for the Pentateuch
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel" (Exo_34:27).
It is passing strange, the ease and effrontery with which the radicals, with an air of seeming infallibility, accept one and reject another statement of the Pentateuch.
The Pentateuch claims for itself the inspiration of God, and a book making such claims should either be wholly accepted or wholly rejected.
We will examine a few passages from the Pentateuch.
Our first passage: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Write these words; for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel" (Exo_34:27).
We are here taught the verbal inspiration of the Bible. The men of God who penned the Scriptures, may have expressed their own style in their writings, but it was not because God gave them vague and indefinite visions, and left them to write them out by themselves. God rather adapted Himself to their peculiar mode of expression. If the Word of God is not verbally inspired, then it is not inspired at all. Words are the expression of thoughts, and the wrong use of words, necessarily would break the intent of the thought itself. No wonder God said; "Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it" (Deu_4:2).
God dealt very sternly with the Prophets who dared to break tryst with Him, "But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die" (Deu_18:20, A. S. V.).
Our second passage: "And He said, Hear now My words; If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all Mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches" (Num_12:6-8). With what power did God thunder out: "Hear now My words"! Then He placed His stamp of approval on Moses, and committed unto him the words of His mouth.
With what indignation did God thunder against the multitudes who rebelled against Moses. He said; "Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant Moses, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them" (Num_12:8-9).
The seminary and college men may denounce Moses and decry the Pentateuch, but wrath from God is upon them.
The seminary and college men may parade their theories of evolution, in direct and open contradiction of the words of Moses and the Pentateuch, but "the anger of the Lord is kindled against them."
Well did the Holy Ghost, through Enoch, prophesy of these: "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him" (Jdg_1:14-15).
Enoch's words are the more significant, when we remember that the preceding verses of Jude corroborate, in detail, the historicity of the very Mosaic statements which the modernists of today so ruthlessly reject.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR