Moses saw God face-to-face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
In Part V of our series, we saw that God revealed his name to Moses in Exodus 3 as Yahweh, “I AM,” and that the meaning of God's name is bound up with God's presence to save his people, “I AM with you.” Toward the end of the book in Exodus 33–34, God explains the meaning of his name by proclaiming his own character.
Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight--why the bush does not burn up." When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
Isaiah, the great prophet of God, was given a beautiful, encouraging word from the Lord to Israel and all his people who love and serve him with a sincere heart. This scripture calms our hearts and assures us of His love and promises.
Moses is essentially asking God to demonstrate his nature and his character—to reveal his true self to Moses (cf. Exod 33:18–19). In the Old Testament, names are not just handles to refer to people but are actually descriptors.
God completely revealed himself to us in Jesus, and he inspires his Church and her Sacred Tradition to help us remember who God is and what he has done for us. God wants to know you personally, to know your family deeply. Do you want to know Him?
Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words." and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself.
Genesis 18:1-3 explained that God appeared to Abraham as a man, and in Ezekiel 1:26-28, it's a similar scenario: “And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above ...
The Burning Bush
This is what God is doing, making Himself know through the miracle of a burning bush, the miracle of Jesus Christ. And He continues to make reveal himself through scripture.
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name? ' Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.
While on Patmos, God gave John a vision of the final days of earth, and a peak at heaven. In the vision, John saw the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to the new earth, for the old earth had been destroyed.
According to one Christian commentary of the Bible incident described, "Jacob said, 'I saw God face to face'. Jacob's remark does not necessarily mean that the 'man' with whom he wrestled is God.
God has revealed himself to us in the glory of creation, in the perfection of the written word, and in the personal experience of all who seek him.
Though Church teaching, in line with its Doctors, holds that God has no literal sex because God possesses no body (a prerequisite of sex), classical and scriptural understanding states that God should be referred to (in most contexts) as masculine by analogy.
In Exodus 3:14, appearing before Moses as a burning bush, God reveals his name referring to himself in Hebrew tongue as “Yahweh” (YHWH) which translates to “I am who I am.” The Church decided that this name needed to be replaced with the words “God” and “Lord” and so “Yahweh” was stricken from all the passages and the ...
Sacred Scripture teaches that Enoch and Elijah were assumed into heaven while still alive and not experiencing physical death.
It stems from the primary text in Genesis 1:27, which reads: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female he created them." The exact meaning of the phrase has been debated for millennia.
Some Important Principles, Doctrines, and Events. Moses saw God face-to-face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the LORD spoke with Moses. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to his tent.
Elijah felt alone, and didn't understand God's plan, but he still searched God out. In return, he constantly saw God's power displayed in his weakness: when He brought the widow's son back from the dead, when He triumphed on Mt. Carmel, and when He rained down fire from heaven upon the king's men.
The book of Exodus, or the second book of Moses, describes how the Israelites became enslaved by the Egyptians and how God rescues them from the oppression of Pharaoh. Through this deliverance, God reveals His name—Yahweh—and gives His divine presence to His people.
Every holy book insists the same; they say that there is God and that God is present everywhere. So, there is no doubt about the fact that God is present everywhere and is also present within you every-time.
Revelation means to show us something we did not know or see before. In Christianity revelation refers to the way in which God reveals himself .
Therefore, neither does God understand Himself—except, perhaps, by understanding other things. But contrary to this: 1 Corinthians 2:11 says, “The things that are of God, no man knows, but the Spirit of God.” I respond: God understands Himself through Himself (se per seipsum intelligit).
More often than not, God uses the people He has placed in our lives to speak to us. Over the years, those who have heard His voice have recorded what He has had to say in His written word, the Bible. God continues to speak through the words that were written.