Devotion 84
DEVOTION 84: “The Veil of God” coming out of Exo. 34
God has always veiled Himself in something. God in the beginning veiled Himself in His Word.
He veiled Himself in a man when He had lunch with Abraham.
Genesis 18:7-8 “And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. [8] And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.”
God, veiled in a man, ate with Abraham. He did not appear to Abraham as a Pillar of fire or cloud like He did with Moses, but as a man.
God veiled in a man appeared to Joshua.
Joshua 5:13-15 “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? [14] And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? [15] And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.”
The same Word that came to Moses comes to Joshua.
God has to veil Himself from man because we cannot stand in His Holy presence, because of indwelling sin. This is why God had veiled Himself eternally in Christ to relate to man.
Moses, coming from the presence of God, has to veil himself from the people.
Let’s read:
Exodus 34:1-3 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. [2] And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. [3] And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.”
Any man, woman or even animal that came to the Mount would die because of the Holiness of God. Creation has been tainted with sin, and until creation is redeemed by the water, the blood, and the fire, creation stands separated from God.
But one day, creation (earth) will kiss heaven when the earth is ultimately refined by the fire.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:4-5 “And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. [5] And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.”
God appeared to Moses, veiled in a cloud. God at times Will veil Himself in a fire, wind or a storm. God is always veiling Himself.
Today, He veils Himself in us.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:6-17 “And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, [7] Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. [8] And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. [9] And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. [10] And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. [11] Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. [12] Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: [13] But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: [14] For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: [15] Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; [16] And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. [17] Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
God chooses the veil, and not us. We cannot make any images and assume God lives in that image. God veiled Himself in the wind but it does not mean we worship the wind. God veiled Himself in the fire doesn’t mean we worship fire. God is a Spirit; and not an image.
John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Today, the Spirit of God dwells in us. We do not worship ourselves but the Spirit of God in us. This is the Christ in us.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:18-29 “The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. [19] All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. [20] But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. [21] Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. [22] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. [23] Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. [24] For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. [25] Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. [26] The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. [27] And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. [28] And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. [29] And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.”
Moses, like the moon, was reflecting the sun.
Today, we in Christ, like the moon, reflects the Son.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:30-33 “And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. [31] And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. [32] And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. [33] And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.”
The reflection of God on Moses had to be veiled before he could be received by men and women.
When God unveiled Himself out of Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, the disciples fell down, in fear.
Matthew 17:5-6 “While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. [6] And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.”
The fear is due to misalignment, because of the sin in us. But when we line up with His Word, becomes one with Him, by identifying with Christ in His life, crucifixion, ascension, and now dwelling in us in the form of the Holy Spirit, then all fear is gone.
We conclude our reading:
Exodus 34:34-35 “But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. [35] And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.”
Man can only receive God in a veil. Hence God came to man in the Veil calked Jesus Christ.
Man has no means of meeting God outside the Veil.
Let the Word of God bring you into the presence of the unveiled God. BELIEVE, and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. The Holy Spirit is God, veiled in us, in Christ!
God has always veiled Himself in something. God in the beginning veiled Himself in His Word.
He veiled Himself in a man when He had lunch with Abraham.
Genesis 18:7-8 “And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. [8] And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.”
God, veiled in a man, ate with Abraham. He did not appear to Abraham as a Pillar of fire or cloud like He did with Moses, but as a man.
God veiled in a man appeared to Joshua.
Joshua 5:13-15 “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? [14] And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? [15] And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.”
The same Word that came to Moses comes to Joshua.
God has to veil Himself from man because we cannot stand in His Holy presence, because of indwelling sin. This is why God had veiled Himself eternally in Christ to relate to man.
Moses, coming from the presence of God, has to veil himself from the people.
Let’s read:
Exodus 34:1-3 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. [2] And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. [3] And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.”
Any man, woman or even animal that came to the Mount would die because of the Holiness of God. Creation has been tainted with sin, and until creation is redeemed by the water, the blood, and the fire, creation stands separated from God.
But one day, creation (earth) will kiss heaven when the earth is ultimately refined by the fire.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:4-5 “And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. [5] And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.”
God appeared to Moses, veiled in a cloud. God at times Will veil Himself in a fire, wind or a storm. God is always veiling Himself.
Today, He veils Himself in us.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:6-17 “And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, [7] Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. [8] And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. [9] And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. [10] And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. [11] Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. [12] Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: [13] But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: [14] For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: [15] Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; [16] And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. [17] Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
God chooses the veil, and not us. We cannot make any images and assume God lives in that image. God veiled Himself in the wind but it does not mean we worship the wind. God veiled Himself in the fire doesn’t mean we worship fire. God is a Spirit; and not an image.
John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Today, the Spirit of God dwells in us. We do not worship ourselves but the Spirit of God in us. This is the Christ in us.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:18-29 “The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. [19] All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. [20] But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. [21] Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. [22] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. [23] Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. [24] For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. [25] Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. [26] The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. [27] And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. [28] And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. [29] And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.”
Moses, like the moon, was reflecting the sun.
Today, we in Christ, like the moon, reflects the Son.
We continue our reading:
Exodus 34:30-33 “And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. [31] And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. [32] And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. [33] And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.”
The reflection of God on Moses had to be veiled before he could be received by men and women.
When God unveiled Himself out of Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, the disciples fell down, in fear.
Matthew 17:5-6 “While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. [6] And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.”
The fear is due to misalignment, because of the sin in us. But when we line up with His Word, becomes one with Him, by identifying with Christ in His life, crucifixion, ascension, and now dwelling in us in the form of the Holy Spirit, then all fear is gone.
We conclude our reading:
Exodus 34:34-35 “But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. [35] And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.”
Man can only receive God in a veil. Hence God came to man in the Veil calked Jesus Christ.
Man has no means of meeting God outside the Veil.
Let the Word of God bring you into the presence of the unveiled God. BELIEVE, and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. The Holy Spirit is God, veiled in us, in Christ!
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