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God hides Himself

Isaiah 45:15 Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Psalms 89:46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

John 5:36 But I have a testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, No one has ever seen God the Father or heard His voice. Jesus is the spokesman (logos) and speaks for and does the will of His Father

Hebrews 1:1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. A Son (the first of many), heir of all things, through whom He created the worlds. Jesus created the worlds.

Moses and Aaron are a type of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Moses never spoke to the people, he told Aaron what God said and Aaron spoke for him.

Exodus 4:15 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. 16 He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him.

Exodus 4:30 Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and performed the signs in the sight of the people.

Isaiah 59:1 See, the Lord's hand is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Has there ever been anything so horrific that you couldn't look at it? You know if you did it would haunt you and drive you nuts and you would never get it out of your mind. God hates sin. He can't bear to see it. He can't abide it and doesn't want it. Jesus is and always has been the go between. Jesus is the God of the old testament who dealt with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob (Isreal), Moses - everyone.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Jesus is the word or logos who did the creating.

1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

God hates the breaking of His laws (commandments).

Exodus 19:7 So Moses came, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.8 The people all answered as one: "Everything that the Lord has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

The covenant was: the people will obey Gods commands and God will in turn bless Israel, in short. If the people broke the covenant, the covenant would be null and void but Gods commandments continue to stand. Breaking the commandments would still be sin and the penalty would still be death. God didn't bring His commandments into being when He gave them to Israel, He was teaching them to them because they were seperated from any knowledge of God while they were in Egypt. They needed to learn what Adam, Noah, Abraham, Issaac, and Jacob already knew. The same goes for the dietary laws.

Genesis 7:1 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;

Noah was to take seven pairs of clean animals and only two pair of unclean. So he knew what clean and unclean animals were. But I digress.

Exodus 19:10 the Lord said to Moses: "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes 11 and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

God was not hiding from Israel at this time.

Exodus 20:19 and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die."

The people did not want God to speak to them. They hid themselves from God first.

Genesis 3:8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Adam and Eve hid themselves from God first. It was the One who would become Jesus who was talking with them.

1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and said to him, "You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations." 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." Samuel prayed to the Lord, 7 and the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.

Again, the people rejected God. People don't want God interfering in their lives. They want to continue doing what they do without the consequences. They want God to remove the effect but don't want to change the cause. And so it goes to this day.