We find the Exodus story is an amazing account of God’s working in saving His people. 

In Exodus 20 we read about the commandments and covenants that God made with Israel.  They are remarkable.  At Sinai, the Lord gave Moses a variety of laws that covered many aspects of life…..civil, criminal, and ceremonial, as a seamless whole.  These instructions were meant to bring this rag tag group of people into one nation, under one God and making them into a nation of holy people, devoted to the One who had saved them.

Ten chapters later God called Moses and Aaron, his two sons and seventy elders to ascend the mountain.  There, God was to present himself.  Yet we are often told that no man can see God.  What did they see?  Whom did they see?
Later, however, when Moses asks God to show him His glory, God replies, “You cannot see my face; for no man shall see me and live (Ex 33:20)

Moses sees God, but he does not see Him.  He encounters God but he cannot see God’s face.  No matter how much of God a man might see, God remains infinitely beyond his seeing.   Moses hides in the clef of a rock and God’s glory passes by.  He sees God’s back.  Is that possible?  This is a mystery that we really can’t explain, nor should we try. 

We know that Moses and all the people have seen God’s power and might.  They have seen the Cloud of Glory, and they experience His majesty. 

From this point on, the knowledge of God unfolds to His people with verbal instructions. “And God said…….” etc.  The words are recorded and transmitted from generation to generation.  

Scripture is not so much the story of our discovery of God but a God who seeks to bridge the gap between Himself and us. 

God may not be readily seen in our world, and indeed we often wonder where He is.  We want him to interfere in our lives.  We want Him to correct the wrongs that we witness.   

However, God has dialogued with us through the writings of Scripture. He engages us more fully by sending the Messiah to embody these attributes of His instructions.  Jeshua did not come to nullify the commandments.  He came to engage us more fully with the purposes that God intended for us. He fulfilled them in every way but didn’t end them.

In the writings of the Apostolic scriptures Jeshua tells us how we must relate to others and how to please God himself. 

“The Torah was given through Moses, grace and truth, came through Yeshua the Messiah.  No one has ever seen God, but the only unique Son, who is identical with God, and is at the Father’s side, He has made Him known.”
(John 1:17-18)

John is not drawing a contrast between Torah and grace, or between Moses and Yeshua. Rather he is describing Yeshua as the living Torah who embodies, the very attributes that God declared to Moses. Jeshua himself said not a dot or tittle (of Torah) shall pass until all is fulfilled.  Jeshua is the Word of God in human form!! 

                                          Can we see God?  The answer is yes!!
                                            We see him as Yeshua our Messiah.