The Everlasting Covenant

We May Come with Boldness to this Awful Throne

The terror of God’s throne is the same terror that was at Sinai—the terror of the law. Yet that same throne is “the throne of grace,” to which we are exhorted to come with boldness. Even so “Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was” ³ on Sinai. Not only Moses, but “Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel” went up into the mount; “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 Israel He laid not His hand; also they saw God, and did eat and drink.” ¹ If it had not been so, then we should not have had a positive demonstration of the fact that we may indeed come with boldness to the throne of grace—that awful throne whence comes lightnings and thunderings and voices—and find mercy there. The law makes sin to abound, “but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” The cross was at Sinai, so that even there was God’s throne of grace. “Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” EVCO 318.3