God Attribute, 23

 ~ Face – God Has a Face ~

 

This Series  ~  This series of posts looks at some of the many attributes of God.  Generally, we move in alphabetical order.

 

Introduction  ~  Reference to God’s face in Scripture is used in different ways – just as today we use references in different ways including in a literal sense, but also sometimes in a figurative sense.  Without going into a explanation of the different ways words were, and are, used what follows is arguably the most familiar Scripture passage regarding the face of God. 

 

Scripture  ~  “Then He said, ‘I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you.  I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.’  But He said, ‘You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.’  And the Lord said, ‘Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.  So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.  Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen’” (Exodus 33:19-23).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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