God's Holiness - Light of Moral Purity
I left off with people who see God and panic, believing they will die.  In part, this is because they have seen the remarkable.  But, in part, it has to do with the holiness of God.  I quoted Isaiah 6:5, but I'd like to look at the verses preceding it.In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.  Above it stood seraphim, each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.  And one cried to another and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory!"  And the posts

God's Holiness - No One Has Seen God?
In yesterday's blog entry, I finally concluded my thoughts on Exodus 33:19.  Exodus 33:20 says, "But He said, 'You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me and live."  I found it interesting that nobody can see God and live. This is not the only place in Scriptures that this is said:No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. (John 1:18) Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me -- not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God, He has seen the Father. (John 6:45b-46)

God's Grace and Mercy
I am working our way through Exodus 33:19-23; 4:6-7.  After I began typing these again, I went to the heart of the passage, verse 22-23, the crux being that God cannot show Moses all of His glory, which I described as an overwhelming abundance of all of God's traits.  Then, going back to the beginning of the passage, I dealt with God's goodness.  I am now up to God's grace and mercy (compassion) found in Exodus 33:19b:  "I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." I did a whole, huge study prior to this regarding the ramifications of being gracious and compassionate only to those whom God cho

God's Goodness
(I missed the "tomorrow" deadline, but there are extenuating circumstances.  Now, to get back to the subject at hand.  God's goodness.)Exodus 33:19a says, "Then He said, 'I will make all My goodness pass before you..."  The Hebrew word for God's goodness (as opposed to our goodness) is TOWBIYAHUW, and it means "the best".  God is simply "the best" in every way.  The first time the Hebrew word is used is in Exodus 18:9.  In Exodus 18:8, Moses tells his father-in-law, Jethro about all of the works that God did in delivering Israel from the Pharaoh.  Verse 9 is Jethro's response:  Then Jethro rejoiced for all the GOOD

Glory of God
The word for "glory" in the Hebrew word Kabod, which means honor, glory, great quantity, multitude, wealth, reputation (majesty), and spleador.  It is taken from the root word Kabed, meaning to be heavy.  In essence glory means a heavy dose of honor, multitude, wealth, reputation and splendor -- overwhelmingly so.  The first time it is used in Scripture is Genesis 31:1:  "Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away ALL that was our fathers, and from what was our father's he has acquired ALL THIS WEALTH."  Although the English word "glory" is not listed in this passage, the idea of "all this wealth" hints at an overabunda