Please go to exodus 33 and see the video by Dr. Baruch. It is older. The word nasote is better translated in two possible ways according to what Dr. Baruch says in Rabbinic circles that there were two possible ways to interpret this word. It is wrongly translated in the English. Sort of. Meaning that when God tests us He is revealing through tough circumstances what is in us SO we can see our need for Him and learn to worship Him in trials. (Deut 8)
The two ways to interpret are:
- Nes=miracle
- Nasote= new experience
Dr. Baruch, says that he believes we should interpret this both. God wants to give us a miracle and a new experience. God spoke to each person in their hearts. What did He speak? Their sin. God opened their hearts to see their sins. But it also showed us God's righteous character according to Dr. Baruch. So we see our sin and we see it compared to God WHO IS OUR JUDGE. We need to respond in kind to this seeming contradiction by recognizing that in any church or bible study we attend, and they are teaching us about God, that we compare it to our sin and God's righteousness. Our own Bible Study should make us aware that we are looking at God's character when we look into the law. Is the applicable today? Yes, to teach us about God's righteousness. It is about the heart issue of sin.
A Ric Joyner side note is that one could compare Matthew 5 as the correct way to respond to God's law. We recognize how bankrupt, or poor we are when we encounter God's law and word. We need His help to change.
But according to this passage, God revealed their sin to them which also was a terrifying revelation! The Hebrews heard the God of the Universe speaking to them! This event alone should have caused them to be overjoyed not fearful. Nothing like this happened in their previous lives in Egypt. Their experience was serving the mystical arts of Egypt to convince the Hebrews to serve their gods. Here was God saying we have a problem and it is your heart. But I have the answer. I would like to change you!
Dr. Baruch said that God was coming to them in the cloud down the mountain to change them and possibly give them a new body SO THEY WOULD NO LONGER SIN. We long for heaven for this very reason.
Isn't this wonderful to contemplate? Isn't it heartwarming and heart wrenching that our God is so powerful and loving to reveal our sin so we will respond to Him? Let us do this now, asking Him to forgive our sin and place that sin on Christ and ask for His help to "create in us a clean heart" by being born again. We become new creatures in Christ so that we are looking for ways not to sin. But how will we know what causes sin? Through the study of His Word!