Charles E. Wigg
In chapter four of
Deuteronomy Moses repeats the absolute necessity for Israel to live a life of
obedience to the word that God had committed to them. He drew their attention
that those who clung to Jehovah, in the temptation connected with Baal Peor, not
one of them had died, but all were alive as a testimony to the great goodness of
God.
In chapter five the
Law is repeated once again. This was to show that nothing had changed; God’s
standards had not altered in any way over the forty years since He spoke from
Mount Sinai. As at that time they still needed a mediator, and Moses the man of
God was that mediator. Though he died and was buried by God, yet our Mediator,
“The Man Christ Jesus”, ever lives to make intercession for us. A human mediator
is no longer required by men to come between man and God. Nevertheless once we
come to God through Christ, are expected to live a life of obedience to God’s
word. But our Mediator is unique, in that He rpse from the dead. He now lives in
the power of an endless life, and He ever lives to make intercession for us. He
is the ONE MEDIATOR between God and man, we need no other.
In chapter six of this
book, Moses gives a most enlightening view of his knowledge of God, and his
knowledge of the trinity. It is in verse four that we have the Jewish ‘Shema’ is
presented to us. The following comment taken from the Treasury of Scripture
Knowledge is most interesting.
Shema Yisrael,
Yehowah, Elohainoo, Yehowah aichod. “Hear, Israel, Jehovah, our God, is one
Jehovah.” On this passage the Jews lay great stress; and it is one of the four
passages which they write on their phylacteries. On the word Elohim,
Simeon ben Joachi says: “Come and see the mystery of the word Elohim. There are
three degrees, and each degree is by itself alone, and yet they are all one, and
joined together in one, and are not divided from each other.”
In these words we have
perhaps the clearest statement as to the nature of God, being a Trinity. The
Hebrew word aichod, means a plurality in unity, not a single entity as claimed
by some Jewish authorities.
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