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Numbers 12:8

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I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles. He even sees the form of the Lord. Why weren’t you afraid to criticize my servant Moses?”

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So Jacob named that place Peniel [Face of God], because he said, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.”

I will see your face when I am declared innocent. When I wake up, I will be satisfied ⌞with seeing⌟ you.

I will turn my attention to a proverb. I will explain my riddle with the ⌞music of⌟ a lyre.

As the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking, and the voice of God answered him.

Never make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.

The Lord would speak to Moses personally, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would come back to the camp, but his assistant, Joshua, son of Nun, stayed inside the tent.

The Lord said, “I will let all my goodness pass in front of you, and there I will call out my name ‘the Lord.’ I will be kind to anyone I want to. I will be merciful to anyone I want to.

Then I will take my hand away, and you’ll see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

When Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses and saw his face shining, they were afraid to come near him.

to understand a proverb and a clever saying, the words of wise people and their riddles.

To whom, then, can you compare God? To what statue can you compare him?

To whom will you compare me and make me equal? To whom will you compare me so that we can be alike?

“Son of man, tell this riddle. Give this illustration to the nation of Israel.

Then I said, “Oh no! Almighty Lord, no! The people already say that I’m only telling stories.”

The Lord used a prophet to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt. He used a prophet to take care of them.

What if the Egyptians tell the people who live in this land? Lord, they have already heard that you are with these people, that they have seen you with their own eyes, that your column of smoke stays over them, and that you go ahead of them in a column of smoke by day and in a column of fire by night.

Whenever Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the throne of mercy on the ark containing the words of God’s promise, from between the two angels. This is how the Lord spoke with Moses.

So what the prophet had said came true: “I will open my mouth to illustrate points. I will tell what has been hidden since the world was made.”

“The person who hears you hears me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

No one has ever seen God. God’s only Son, the one who is closest to the Father’s heart, has made him known.

I don’t call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. But I’ve called you friends because I’ve made known to you everything that I’ve heard from my Father.

If I hadn’t done among them what no one else has done, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

Now we see a blurred image in a mirror. Then we will see very clearly. Now my knowledge is incomplete. Then I will have complete knowledge as God has complete knowledge of me.

As all of us reflect the Lord’s glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The Lord your God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me. You must listen to him.

There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord dealt with face to face.

You didn’t see the Lord the day he spoke to you from the fire at Mount Horeb. So be very careful

Never make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Therefore, whoever rejects this ⌞order⌟ is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

He is the only one who cannot die. He lives in light that no one can come near. No one has seen him, nor can they see him. Honor and power belong to him forever! Amen.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors at many different times and in many different ways through the prophets.

His Son is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact likeness of God’s being. He holds everything together through his powerful words. After he had cleansed people from their sins, he now holds the honored position—the one next to the majestic God [the Father] on the heavenly throne.

This is especially true of those who follow their corrupt nature along the path of impure desires and who despise the Lord’s authority. These false teachers are bold and arrogant. They aren’t afraid to insult the ⌞Lord’s⌟ glory.

Yet, in a similar way, the people who slipped in among you are dreamers. They contaminate their bodies with sin, reject the Lord’s authority, and insult his glory.




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