Good question. It is good to trust your logic and intuition, and yet the living Word of the Most High, of the Creator YHWH, explains mysteries, parables, and apparent contradictions to us, the not-yet-so-wise children of the same Creator. We are all created in God's image, and it is said the Lord spoke face to face to his servant Moses, but since even angels can take the form of man, perhaps the Creator can take many and all forms, as He is Lord of All. Moses saw the Lord's glory pass before him, but was hid in the cleft of a rock, and looked only on the Lord's hind parts, and not directly into His face, precisely because no man could look directly into the Lord's face and survive. What did the Lord then mean, when He told Miriam and Aaron, that He spoke to prophets in dreams and visions, but not so to his servant Moses, who alone in all his House was faithful. With Moses He spoke face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Clearly Moses the fine man, who God raised to help serve and help save His people Israel, was afforded a more intimate conversation with His Lord and Savior, and yet still a man, was not allowed to enter the Promised Land. Maybe then, Moses was able to speak directly into the Angel of the Lord's face, or a manifestation of God, the first-born and only-begotten Son's face, or an aspect of the Lord's face which was able to be seen safely by man. Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the Lion of Judah will explain this apparent contradiction and all other things to us at the right time. Praise the Lord, and Praise to Jesus' name, now and to the Age, and forever more!
- Gerard Israel Michael (10/15/2011 3:00:18 AM)

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