I. The Pillar of Cloud was a great refreshment to the children of Israel by day, during their long journey in the wilderness, the sun in those countries shining sometimes very hot, which might, had it not been for this cloudy pillar, have been very destructive or grievous to them, during so many years' travels. So Jesus Christ, as Mediator, is as a Cloud or screen between the hot beams of God's wrath and poor believers. It is he who keeps us from being consumed by the wrath of him, who is to the wicked "a consuming fire," Heb 12:29.
II. It was a fire and a cloud, yet both but one pillar: so Christ is God and man, and yet but one person; and the same Christ, who is a Saviour to the truly penitent, will destroy all ungodly and impenitent ones.
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