“Unveiled" January 14, 2007

Why did Moses need a veil as told in Exodus 34?
Vs.30 “…they were afraid to come near him.”
Why were they afraid to come near him?
Was it because he looked like a freak and they were afraid of him? No...

Looking at the Hebrew word for "afraid," we find these meanings:
1) to fear, revere, be afraid
2) to stand in awe of, be awed
3) to fear, reverence, honour, respect
1) to be fearful, be dreadful, be feared
2) to cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe
3) to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe
c) (Piel) to make afraid, terrify
2) (TWOT) to shoot, pour



In Corinthians (3:7) we are told that the reason for the veil over his face is so that they would not see the shining go away, fading. But the fact that the shine was fading away from his face, was indicating the fact that the law that God was given was to fade away when God established the new covenant with man through Jesus Christ. So that they would not see the fading away of the old covenant, his face was veiled. -Chuck Smith

We have a veil over our faces as well, do we not? Read 2 Corinthians 3:3-18 and what it says about the veil that comes over our eyes. This should dramatically alter the way you come to the throne of God and worship. It did for me...

2 CORINTHIANS 3:16-18
“But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, as being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”