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  (DIVINE EMBLEMS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE) 14. EMBLEMS FROM THE MOUNT
  by A.B. Simpson
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“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that
burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. And the
sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard
entreated that the words should not be spoken to them any more: (For
they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a
beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a
dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear
and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of
angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of
just men made perfect. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of
Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not
who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if
we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook
the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not
the earth only but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth
the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are
made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we,
receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we
may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a
consuming fire."

These beautiful words recall our thoughts to the mount of fire in the
ancient wilderness, and they claim for us in the Christian dispensation
all that was gracious and permanent in that awful and yet glorious
manifestation of God; and leave out all that is dark, terrific and
temporary.

In our review of the history of Israel, we have come at last to Sinai.
We have followed them across the Red sea and through the wilderness; we
have seen them led by the pillar of cloud and fire; fed by the hands of
God; refreshed by the streams from the desert; and made victorious over
their enemies by the banner of God. But now, the scene changes. I know
nothing more vivid and impressive in their history than the strange
alteration in the manifestation of God\

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