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Why does it
say that people saw God, and then it says that no one can see God?
Can you explain John chp. 1 in relationship to
Exodus chp. 24:10 ?
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Exodus 24:9-11 says, "Then went up
Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the
God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone,
and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of
Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." John 1:18
says, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom
of the Father, he hath declared him." So we know that in Exodus 24:9-11, they were
seeing Christ.
I Corinthians 10:1-4 says, "Moreover, brethren, I would not that
ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all
eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM: AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST."
John 14:6-9 backs this up further when it says, "Jesus saith unto
him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. IF
YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO: AND FROM HENCEFORTH YE KNOW HIM, AND
HAVE SEEN HIM. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus
saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER; and how sayest thou then, Show us the
Father?"
These references to people seeing God in the Old Testament are often
called "preincarnate appearances of Christ." That means that Christ appeared in
a form which allowed man to see Him before He took upon Himself actual human flesh when He
was born of the virgin Mary. John 1:14 says, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full
of grace and truth." Hebrews 2:16,17 says, "For verily HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE
NATURE OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. Wherefore in all things it
behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the
people." So when He was born upon earth, He took a real body of human flesh. But in
the Old Testament, He did not have that human body of flesh when He appeared unto man.
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