Who wrote the Ten Commandments on the tables of stone, and who came down the mountain with Moses?
God wrote the Ten Commandments on the tables of stone with His finger. Moses had been on the mountain nearly forty days dealing with Jehovah God, and Joshua joined him there. The two then came down from the mountaintop together.
Les explains that Exodus 32 follows the same unchanging God who dealt with Israel under the Mosaic law. Even though believers are not under law but under grace, God has not changed; what He hated in Genesis He hates today, and what He admonished Israel not to do for their own good, He admonishes us today for our own good. Les teaches that Moses had been up in the mountain almost forty days, dealing with Jehovah God. God had already written with His finger, as the expression puts it, the Ten Commandments on the tables of stone. Joshua had joined Moses, and they were on their way down from the mountaintop together.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.