A Study on the Phenomenon of the Proclamation of God’s Words through Intermediaries

God’s words were proclaimed outwardly through prophets. Even though they were spoken through people acting as His agents, they were considered to be spoken by Him directly to people in the form of God spoke as such. But in Deuteronomy 5 and Exodus 20, the means by which this phenomenon of speaking through others took on the form of speaking indirectly through intermediaries. This study focuses on the change in the method of conveyance and explores the theological and theological background ramifications of such change. And we start by examining the content of Deuteronomy 5. The Incident depicted in the passage assumes the Israelites’ limitation on approaching God and the special authority bestowed on those whose work involved God’s word and transmitting it. As to the limitation man has, which surfaced from the aforementioned passage, we arrived at the conclusion that man cannot achieve salvation on his own, by looking at Genesis 2-3, and cannot establish anything of value and standards on his own. With the construction of the second temple, there arose the need to restudy the statutes that dealt with peace and security of the nation and the need to educate people of God’s word. With the rise of this historical necessity came the need to give God’s word and teachers of the word authority based on the personality of Moses and the incidents at Mount Horeb. The system of the intermediary-based conveyance of God’s word is a product of the effort of trying to tie a holy document to an historical event and thereby bestowing special authority to it. Taking for granted that special authority is accompanied when an intermediary like Moses speaks to people on behalf of God, this seems be the system produced at the start of the construction of the second temple.