Exodus 24

Exodus 24:4

The altar represented God the chief party in the covenant, and the twelve stony pillars the tribes of Israel, as having hard and stony hearts

Exodus 24:6-8

The sprinkling of the blood on the altar, the book, the young men, the elders, and the pillars which represented the people, denoted the satisfaction of God’s perfection, the fulfilment of the broken law, and the purification of men’s consciences by the blood of Jesus. Hence, in ver 9, 10, God, perhaps in human shape, appears as smiling on them; and they, with comfort and safety, feast in his presence

Exodus 24:16

In these six days Moses is prepared to receive new commandments, as the people were in three days prepared for hearing the law

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXIV — One instance of fellowship with God ensures and prepares for another more remarkable, while believers are allowed to come even to his seat—for this purpose his oracles are revealed, and his ordinances dispensed to us. But how many rashly consent to God’s covenant, and resolve on duty, who in the issue prove very unsteadfast! Let me then bless the Lord that our new covenant is made with all the elect, however hard-hearted in themselves, and that it is a new testament in Christ’s blood. His finished atonement hath glorified his father’s perfections to the highest; hath magnified the law; and pacifies and purges our conscience from dead works. By these means I am determined to receive his words into my heart, as indeed the word of God, since I am allowed the clear and amiable displays of a reconciled God, while in his presence I feast on the flesh and blood of his Son. But behold, likewise, how my Redeemer, having fulfilled the law, and by himself purged away our sins, ascends into the hill of God, sits down on the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, and thence, in due time, he will return without sin unto salvation