The Bible frequently mentions that God spoke face to face with Moses. What does it mean to see God face to face?
Seeing God face to face means seeing and understanding the nature, attributes, and character of God. Getting a glimpse of understanding about God.
Moses might have seen God every day for 20–30 years. What was it he saw?
For the first two years, Moses may have seen God as a holy God. For the following two years, Moses may have seen God as kind and merciful. Like this, he might have seen some facets of God.
Moses was seeing different facets of God, and these facets led to the discovery of other new facets of God.
God is love is not complete without understanding God is Holy.
God is a God of Providence is not complete without understanding God is a righteous God.
Once we begin to see one nature of God, there is a desire to see other natures of God because of the connection of natures.
This path of discovering God’s nature, attributes and character started an unending journey for Moses to see God face to face.
For example: In a city, there existed a large mountain that nobody ever scaled. For fifteen years, a young person had aspired to climb this peak. He finally made it to the peak. He began sobbing as soon as he reached the top. Why? Because when he reached the summit, he discovered larger mountains than this that nobody knew about. This individual desired to scale every mountain.
Seeing Jesus face to face is a never-ending journey that requires climbing many mountains (characters and attributes). It would take 1-2 years to climb the mountain God is Holy, from there 1-2 years to climb the mountain God is love, etc. God possesses at least 1000 attributes, and it would take at least 2000 years to climb all of these mountains.
Climbing a mountain of God is Holy for one to two years means seeing Jesus as a Holy God and daily gaining fresh insights into Holy God, allowing it to permeate your lives. We finally arrived at the mountain’s peak after the nature had fully infused and imparted in our lives.
Moses even after seeing God for 20-30 years still made mistakes. This means that in 30 years, he saw only few aspects of God’s nature and attributes. 30 years were not sufficient to fully understand God. The only way we can live a balanced Christian life is if we can see and understand all the characters and attributes of God.
God gives gifts to his children but reveals His nature to His loved ones.
In seeing Jesus, His nature is revealed and imparted in your life. Jesus’ nature is made clear to you as you see Him.
Many people claim to see and talk to Jesus daily but there is no change in their nature. When you see Jesus, there is an impartation of His character.
To comprehend God’s characters and attributes would require at least 2000 years. By transferring the anointing, God will occasionally transmit knowledge of His attributes to successive generations.
According to 2 Kings 2:9, Elisha received a double part of Elijah’s anointing. Elisha continued from where Elijah left off. Elisha continued to discover new facets of God while building on what Elijah had learned about the character and nature of God. Elisha picked up from the nature of God which Elijah had last seen. Elisha continues the journey of seeking God face to face which Elijah has started.
Knowledge about God is passed down from generation to generation through the anointing of God. When mentors anoint the following generation, they transmit to them their knowledge of God. The knowledge of God’s nature is mainly passed from generation to generation with by products as gifts and benefits. Anointing aids in continuing where mentors have left off rather than starting at the mountain’s foot.
Today God is blessing His people with the Knowledge and revelation about Himself. If God has revealed any aspect of His nature to you, begin being obedient by meditating, drawing day by day, and allowing it to eventually permeate every aspect of your life.
