Up On the Mountain

Ask an Alaskan and an Israeli what a mountain is and you'll get different answers. The first will be towering, snow capped peaks; the second will be a brown hill of some size. In speaking of Mt. Sinai, we are talking of a brown hill of some size.

Mt. Sinai is probably the most important mountain ever. It accounts for much of the action in the first few books of the Old Testament. I should say interaction: that between God, the extraterrestrial, and Moses, the human being. You may call God anything you want...but He sure was not and is not of this earth. That is a fact that goes right up to Jesus Christ and beyond.

In Chapter 24 of Exodus, the first line reads, "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

And Moses alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him."

Then in Verse 9-11 "Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink."

This had to be somewhere on the mountain but not all the way up nor all the way down, as the Lord explains later. Also, a "paved work of sapphire stone".  This is diametrically oppposed to the craggy peaks of brown dirt on Mt. Sinai. Something else not of this earth.

So Moses and his minister Joshua went up into the mount of God. Here they would receive the tables of stone containing the 10 Commandments. These were written by God.

Everybody else waited below for forty days and nights. One can only imagine what Moses and Aaron must have seen!