Up to this all was grace,
though there were dependence and conflict. The murmurs of
the people had only served to shew the riches of the
grace of God, who displayed His sovereignty in giving
them all they could desire; which appears so much the
more striking, because afterwards the same desires, under
the law, brought very bitter chastisements. At length,
after this reign of grace, follows the order of divine
government, what will be realised in the millennium
(chap. 18), where the king in Jeshurun judges in
righteousness, establishes order and government, the
Gentiles eat and offer sacrifices with Israel, and
acknowledge that the God of the Jews is exalted above all
gods. All this was the acting of God's grace and power.
The future
deliverance of Israel
During the days of the
deliverance of Israel Moses's wife had been sent away, as
the church during the tribulation, and as the church will
appear in the joy of Israel's deliverance, so now
Zipporah appears again upon the scene, and we have not
only Gershom, "a pilgrim in a foreign land,"
but a second son, Eliezer; "for," Moses said,
"the God of my fathers was mine help, and delivered
me from the sword of Pharaoh." The application of
this to the future deliverance of Israel is too evident
to require any lengthened explanation.
Exodus 18 Bible Commentary
John Darby’s Synopsis
Up to this all was grace, though there were dependence and conflict. The murmurs of the people had only served to shew the riches of the grace of God, who displayed His sovereignty in giving them all they could desire; which appears so much the more striking, because afterwards the same desires, under the law, brought very bitter chastisements. At length, after this reign of grace, follows the order of divine government, what will be realised in the millennium (chap. 18), where the king in Jeshurun judges in righteousness, establishes order and government, the Gentiles eat and offer sacrifices with Israel, and acknowledge that the God of the Jews is exalted above all gods. All this was the acting of God's grace and power.
The future deliverance of Israel
During the days of the deliverance of Israel Moses's wife had been sent away, as the church during the tribulation, and as the church will appear in the joy of Israel's deliverance, so now Zipporah appears again upon the scene, and we have not only Gershom, "a pilgrim in a foreign land," but a second son, Eliezer; "for," Moses said, "the God of my fathers was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." The application of this to the future deliverance of Israel is too evident to require any lengthened explanation.