No one has
seen God, since He is a spirit, but there are several instances recorded in the
Old Testament when He assumed a visible form. In Exodus 33:12-23 God and Moses
have a discussion just before God renews His covenant and then gives Moses the
second set of Ten Commandments. During that conversation, in what we read in verse
20, God said…"You cannot see My
face, for no man can see Me and live!" Other recorded occurrences of
people seeing God are found in the following verses:
Genesis 32:30 (Jacob after he
wrestled with who is presumed to be Christ) So
Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face,
yet my life has been preserved."
Exodus 24:9-10 (A large group of the Israelite
leaders at Mt. Sinai.) Then Moses went up
with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw
the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of
sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
Judges 13:19-22 NLT (Sampson’s
parents, when they were told that they would have a son.) Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a
rock as a sacrifice to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD
did an amazing thing. As the flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the
angel of the LORD ascended in the fire. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they
fell with their faces to the ground. The angel did not appear again to Manoah
and his wife. Manoah finally realized it was the angel of the LORD, and he said
to his wife, "We will certainly die, for we have seen God!"
Isaiah 6:1, 5 (Isaiah in a prophetic
dream.) In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,
lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. ... Then I
said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and
I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD
of hosts."
Daniel 7:1, 9 (Daniel, in a
vision.) In the first year of Belshazzar
king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his
bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it. ...
"I kept looking until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took
His seat; His vesture was like white snow and the hair of His head like pure
wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, its wheels were a burning fire."
So we won’t
likely see God, face to face, here on earth, but we can grasp an understanding
of Him from things that Jesus showed us about our Heavenly Father. As Jesus
said…All things have been handed over to
Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone
know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Matthew 11:27.
RSVP: Jesus is
offering us information about His Father, our Heavenly Father. Will you respond
and accept this revelation about Him?
Prayer~Dear
Jesus, thank you for sharing information about our Heavenly Father. Open our
eyes, ears, and hearts to see and understand all that You are explaining to us.
Grant us the wisdom to see Him more clearly every day.
© 2014 by Mickey
M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise
noted.
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