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So the Lord spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And Moses returned to the camp. .. <\/em>Exodus 33:11a Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.<\/em> Isaiah 60:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the above scripture, the Glory of the Lord\u00a0is promised\u00a0to shine upon Israel and\u00a0God’s\u00a0people, which includes us. Now that Yeshua is seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, He has received back His Glory as He prayed to the Father in John 17:5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the Glory which I had with You before the world was\u2026And the Glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one\u2026\u201cFather, I desire that they also, whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.\u201d<\/em> Mt. Horeb, the Mountain of God, known also as Mt. Sinai, is where\u00a0God\u00a0first appeared to Moses and spoke to Him from the burning bush.\u00a0There,\u00a0Godcommanded Moses to lead the people of Israel out of slavery from Egypt into the Promised Land.\u00a0Hence,\u00a0Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt,\u00a0through the Sinai desert, and into the promised land. Exodus 17:6, “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Later,\u00a0God\u00a0met Moses once again at Mount Sinai\/Horeb with\u00a0an awesomedisplay of power: thunder and lightning, a dark cloud, fire and smoke, the blast of a trumpet, and quaking of the earth (Exodus 19:18). This was to warn the people not to approach or touch\u00a0God’s\u00a0holy mountain as\u00a0God\u00a0is so Holy that\u00a0anyone doing so would die. And God called Moses on the mountain to receive the commandments for Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “And all the people answered with one voice and said, ‘”All the words which the Lord has said we will do.’\u201d They made burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, \u201cAll that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.\u201d And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, \u201cThis is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words\u201d <\/em>(their promise.) Exodus 24:3b, 5-8 There on\u00a0the mountain, Moses received the plans for the Tabernacle and the tablets of stone on which\u00a0God\u00a0had written His commandments with His own finger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, at the bottom of the mountain, the Israelites had grown impatient\u00a0waiting\u00a0for Moses\u00a0all that time, not knowing what had happened to him.\u00a0 When Moses\u00a0descended the mountain and saw everyone worshiping the golden calf, he became enraged and smashed\u00a0to bits\u00a0the stone tablets on which\u00a0Godhad written His commandments with His own finger.\u00a0Moses reproved Israel for its terrible sin against the one true\u00a0God\u00a0after promising to serve Him and keep His commandments.\u00a0(including not making any images for worship)\u00a0(Exodus 32.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n After dealing with the sin issue (including the death of many of the idol worshipers\u00a0(Exodus 32:28)\u00a0Moses burned the golden calf with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it (verse 20.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCut two tablets of stone like the first\u00a0ones,\u00a0and\u00a0I will write on\u00a0these\u00a0tablets the Words that were on the first tablets which you broke.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Facing\u00a0God\u00a0on the top of the mountain, Moses begged\u00a0God\u00a0to forgive the children of Israel, His people. God listened to Moses, forgave them, and renewed the covenant with Israel. He once again wrote His Commandments on new stone tablets\u00a0(Exodus 34:1\u201327.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moses spent another 40 days and nights in\u00a0the presence of God\u00a0on Mt. Horeb, the mountain of\u00a0God, not eating or drinking, and\u00a0God\u00a0allowed Moses to see His\u00a0glory.\u00a0God’s\u00a0glorious presence sustained him. “But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out; and he would come back and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses\u2019 face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.” <\/em>(Exodus 34:34-35)<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the prophet Elijah ran away from Queen Jezebel who wanted to kill him, he stopped to rest in the desert. There, an angel of the Lord fed him, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cstrengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb (Mt. Sini,) the mountain of God.\u201d<\/em> (1 Kings 19:8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elijah stayed in a cave at Horeb\/Sinai, where he met the Lord Who spoke to him with \u201ca still small voice.\u201d (1 Kings 19:12) It is also interesting that when Yeshua was on the Mount of Transfiguration, out of all the people of God, He met with the prophets Moses and Elijah. \u201cThis is my Son, Whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to him!\u201d <\/em>(Matthew 17:5) <\/p>\n\n\n\n This happened in the presence of Peter, James, and John, the brother of James who <\/p>\n\n\n\n “beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” <\/em>(John 1:14) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 2:6-7 In the Spirit realm, we are seated with Messiah in the heavenlies. God has taken us from Glory to Glory, just as Yeshua prayed\u00a0before He\u00a0ascended to the right hand of the Father. As believers in Messiah Yeshua, Who fulfilled the Torah, we also reflect the Glory of the Torah revealed\u00a0to Moses. The Torah, written with\u00a0the finger of God\u00a0(Exodus 31:18,)\u00a0is the same Torah that Messiah Yeshua came to fulfill; it is the eternal and glorious Word of God. (Jeremiah 31:33: “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts\u2026”)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n By this, we are transformed from the Glory of Moses to the Glory of Yeshua, from the Glory of the Old Covenant to the Glory of the New Covenant, which far surpasses the Old. God’s Holy, good, and righteous Torah was given to sinners to make them holy as the giver of the Torah is holy. But they had to obey all Torah’s laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the Torah was merely a temporary guardian (Galatians 3:23\u201325) until something better appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The better thing is the New Covenant that absolves us of all sin and gives us everlasting life (John 6:63). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, our obedience to God stems from within us. As true believers, we desire to obey Him and love Him with all our hearts and souls, and not out of legality or fear of punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No longer is it an uncaring, animal-blood covenant of rigid rules, written on cold stone tablets but rather a covenant of Messiah’s own blood, written by the Holy Spirit on the tablets of our warm hearts of flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We, His people, no longer need an earthly tabernacle or a mountaintop to meet with God’s Holy Presence. Rather, the Father, and Messiah Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit dwell within us and tabernacle with us in our born-again inner New Man, in loving intimacy, teaching us all things. (John 14:23; 16:13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!\u201d <\/em>(2 Corinthians 5:17) As we move from Glory to Glory, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the image of God’s own beloved Son, Messiah Yeshua. (2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 8:28\u201330; Philippians 3:20\u201321) “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Watch for the next installment of this article soon]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moses, the great prophet with whom the God of Israel spoke face-to-face: \u201cAnd it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses\u201d. 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“I speak with him (Moses) face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?\u201d<\/em> Numbers 12:8
Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. Deuteronomy 34:10 <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Glory of the Lord<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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After the miracle of\u00a0the\u00a0crossing\u00a0of\u00a0the Red Sea and wandering in the desert, the people of Israel cried for water.\u00a0God led them to\u00a0Mount Horeb (Mt. Sinai) and instructed Moses\u00a0to\u00a0miraculously\u00a0get water from the rock.<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-at-20.06.53.png\")
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Then,\u00a0God\u00a0thundered out His commands,\u00a0frightening all the Israelites.\u00a0They asked\u00a0God\u00a0to speak only to Moses and let Moses be the intermediary between themselves and God (Exodus 20:19. By\u00a0the way, Jews often say that they\u00a0don\u2019tneed an\u00a0intermediary to talk to\u00a0God\u00a0when it comes to Yeshua.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Covenant Through Moses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Now the Glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered the Mountain of God for six days. And on the seventh day, God called Moses out of the midst of the cloud. The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.” <\/em>(vs. 13, 16-18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They asked Aaron to make them a god in the form of a golden calf. Overjoyed and excited, the people sacrificed to the golden calf, celebrated, and worshiped their new\u00a0god\u00a0in a frenzy.
However, at the top of the mountain,\u00a0God\u00a0told Moses what was happening in the camp below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said to Moses,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Veil on Moses’s Face<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When Moses came down the mountain after spending this extended time in the presence of the Lord, Moses was unaware that his face shone powerfully, reflecting\u00a0God’s\u00a0Glory. Because everyone feared to approach him, Moses covered his face with a veil, hiding the bright light of the\u00a0Glory\u00a0that was unbearable to the people in their sinful condition,\u00a0so they would not be frightened. (Exodus 34:1\u201329)
Moses went up to speak to the Lord several times and brought Israel the Torah he had received from the Lord for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Prophet Elijah on Mt. Horeb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It is interesting that both Moses and Elijah, who were prophets of God, were on the same Mountain of God, sustained by God for 40 days and nights; both met with God there and heard His audible voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYeshua with Moses and Elijah<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
While on earth, Yeshua’s divine glory was veiled by His humanity, except for this event when His human appearance was changed and His face shone like the sun and His clothes turned blazing.
In an audible voice, the Lord spoke from a bright cloud saying: <\/p>\n\n\n\nFrom Glory to Glory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
“And God (the Father) raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Messiah Yeshua, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Messiah Yeshua.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just as John, Peter, and James beheld His\u00a0glory\u00a0on the Mount of Transfiguration, we\u00a0too\u00a0behold\u00a0His\u00a0glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGod’s light shines through us a witness for all to see as we reflect His glory.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Yet, the Glory of the Torah that shone\u00a0so\u00a0brightly on\u00a0Moses’\u00a0face and required a veil\u00a0covering,\u00a0faded when Israel broke the Old Covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, by our faith in Yeshua,\u00a0we receive\u00a0glory\u00a0through the New Covenant that is spiritual, eternal, and\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0fade for it is written on our hearts by the Holy Spirit of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Torah given to Moses was written on earthly stone, a substance doomed to disintegrate and perish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor God, Who said, \u2018Let light shine out of darkness,\u2019 made His Light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God\u2019s Glory displayed in the face of Messiah Yeshua.\u201d<\/em> (2 Corinthians 4:6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we believe Yeshua is Lord and Savior, receive Him into our hearts by faith, and accept His atonement for our sins, He opens our spiritual eyes and transforms us even in this life to bring us \u201cfrom Glory to Glory.” <\/em>2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n