Christ's Mountain Of The Law

Who was "the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt" (Exodus 20:2 KJV)?

Answer: Jesus Christ was "the LORD God" of the Holy Scriptures (see also The First Christian Church):

"^10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ^10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ^10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; ^10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [see The Rock Of The Church]." (1 Corinthians 10:1-4 KJV)

Three months after the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites camped before Mount Sinai.

"^19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt [see also Why Did They Go To Goshen?], the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. ^19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount." (Exodus 19:1-2 KJV)

Moses had earlier come to know the LORD at Mount Sinai. For Moses, it was a return to a place that he had already known for many years (see Moses Of Midian).

"^19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; ^19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. ^19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant [see Don't Look Back], then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: ^19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." (Exodus 19:3-6 KJV)

The delivery of the Deliverer's Law was orderly and prescribed. Unlike the self-destructive "freedom" (i.e. anarchy) of adolescent-minded rebels and outlaws, with true freedom comes discipline and responsibility (see The Yoke Of Freedom).

"^19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. ^19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

^19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

^19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, ^19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. ^19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: ^19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount." (Exodus 19:7-13 KJV)

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt

On the morning in which the Messiah delivered His Eternal Law (see the Fact Finder question below), He did so amidst a stunning display of miraculous power - that was available for the benefit and protection of those who follow and obey Him.

"^19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. ^19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

^19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. ^19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. ^19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. ^19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

^19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. ^19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. ^19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

^19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

^19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

^19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them." (Exodus 19:14-25 KJV)

The Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ (see Friends Of Jesus and Works Means Obedience):

"^20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,

^20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ^20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

^20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ^20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ^20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

^20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

^20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ^20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ^20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

^20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

^20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

^20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

^20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

^20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

^20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." (Exodus 20:1-17 KJV)

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This Day In History, January 20

1265: In England, the first Parliament to be attended by elected knights of the shires and burgesses met under Simon de Montfort.

1320: Wladislaw I was crowned king of Poland. He defeated the Knights of the Teutonic Order, and established the Polish nation.

1327: Edward II of England abdicated in favor of his son Edward III.

1612: Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II died. His inability to reconcile Roman Catholics and Protestants led to the Thirty Years War (see The Holy Roman Empire).

1649: King Charles I of England was charged with treason after the civil war against parliamentarian forces.

1783: Britain signed a peace agreement with France and Spain, who allied against Britain during the rebellion of the New England colonies.

1841: Hong Kong was ceded to Britain from China after the Opium War.

1918: In Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution, all church property was confiscated and all religious instruction in the schools was abolished.

1936: King George V died at age 70. He was succeeded by Edward VIII whose abdication (to marry a divorced U.S. woman) made possible the eventual coronation of Elizabeth II after the death of her father, King George VI (the younger brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Edward).

1942: Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin formalized a "final solution" plan for the murder of Europe's Jews (see also Presidential Quotes On War, Terrorism, Religion).

1981: 52 U.S. hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, were released after 444 days in captivity.

1989: Ronald Reagan broke the "year zero curse" when he became the first U.S. President since 1840, who won a Presidential election in a year ending in a zero, to leave office alive (although not without incident - Mr. Reagan was very seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in March of 1981):
1980: Ronald Reagan
1960: John F. Kennedy, assassinated
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt, natural causes
1920: Warren Harding, natural causes
1900: William McKinley, assassinated
1880: James Garfield, assassinated
1860: Abraham Lincoln, assassinated
1840: William Harrison, natural causes