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The truth about Why Moses’ wore a Veil

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Contemplatig God - The Holy SpiritI once read a book titled “Contemplating God – The Holy Spirit“, it is quite a heavy but thought provoking read. One such part was about Veil that Moses’ wore after seeing and being in close relationship with God.

You can read the full excerpt hear from Exodus 34: 29-35

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.

Moses’ had to wear his veil because he personally saw God and it changed his life forever. This was because he had to hide his boldness and cleanness that he received from with closeness with God. In the Old Testament they were under the law and were unable to have a personal relationship.

When Jesus died on the cross, the veil in the temple was torn which resembled that the death of Jesus was the ending of the law of the Old Testament and that the common person can NOW HAVE a personal relationship with God through Jesus. So the veil that Moses wore and the veil that stopped us having relationship with God in the temple was not needed which means we have we do not have to hide our boldness and cleanness like Moses did.

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6 comments so far

K.W. Leslie
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I disagree. Lots of people in the OT had a personal relationship with God. I think you misunderstand the word “personal.” It’s not a theological term.

“Personal” means you deal with someone person-to-person. Not necessarily face-to-face; you notice that everyone in the OT was pretty convinced that if they actually saw God in His glory, they would die. (Which is still probably true.) People in the NT saw Jesus in His glory, but before God was incarnate, He was sorta impossible to look upon.

But lots of them dealt with Him personally. They hung out with Him, talked to Him, He talked back, they obeyed Him, He blessed them, etc. Sometimes it was formal, ’cause He’s God after all, but not all the relationships were impersonal, only-thru-prophets or only-thru-priests or only-thru-intermediaries. Abraham, you recall, was called God’s friend. Enoch and Noah walked with Him. Jeremiah even complained that He wouldn’t shut up.

The trouble is how many people talk about Jesus as their “personal savior” yet have no personal relationship with Jesus at all. Their relationships are only-thru-scriptures or only-thru-pastors or only-thru-prophets or only-thru-books. They figure they’re saved because they said a sinner’s prayer, but they don’t know Him, and as He pointed out, at the End, He’ll have to admit He doesn’t know them either.

The veil being ripped is about not needing an intermediary to minister salvation. You don’t need a priest anymore; you are a priest, with Jesus as our High Priest. But people could always have personal relationships with God. We wouldn’t know as much as we do about Him otherwise.

Moses’s veil was used because he wasn’t glowing like a glow stick; he was as bright as the sun. You couldn’t look at him. A minute part of God’s residual glory is enough to do that. (You can see why people were so afraid to look at God.)

September 11th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
GermWorks
 2 

Yes I do think I did mis-understood the term ‘personal’ a bit.

So you are saying that because he saw God personally face to face it caused him to be as bright as the sun?

When you talk about people having a relationship with God through their pastor or scriptures etc that is why God died and ripped the veil at the temple. He did NOT want that anymore…

Thanks again for your input and helping me explain why Mosses wore a veil :)

September 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am
BEN
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His face shone because he was in the presence of God,not because he had a relationship with God.He had a relationship with GOD,but that was not why his face shine,the presence of God caused that.Nice blog ,I enjoy it.

March 7th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Jermayn
 4 

When you deepen a relationship with God, you become more Christ like and Gods shine comes more on you…

Thanks for your comments Ben.

March 9th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Steve
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Moses did not see God as Jesus said no man has ever seen the Father and also the new testament tells us that it was an Angel of God on the mountain and that the law was given by angels.The veil was symbolic of the hidden truth in the books of Moses which to many are still hidden today.

May 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am
Isaiah
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To steve above I would have to diagree with your statment that Moses didn’t see God. In the scripture when ever you read LORD with all capital letters that is a translation of God’s name in the hebrew Yĕhovah. So in a nut shell in exodus 35:5 says ” then the LORD came down…” could be translated as “then GOD came down…”. Just out of curiosity steve where in the NT did you read an angel gave moses the law?

May 29th, 2009 at 12:26 am

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