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Hello everyone, today on Critical Thinking Aloud we are continuing our study on What is the Bibles main character with another installment of The Visible Yahweh. This is another teaching in our foundational What is the Bible Series.
This study of the Visible Yahweh Part Two will be building off of the other material in this series. To get the most out of this teaching it will be helpful for you to have gone through the previous content. If you haven’t had a chance to do so yet check out those teaching first by clicking here.
One of the goals of this series is to equip others with a proverbial “portfolio” of information about the ancient Near East to keep in the forefront of ones mind while reading the Scriptures. We do this in hopes that others will see for themselves the clarity this information can bring to the Biblical text while they are studying their Bibles.
In this Installment we will continue our study on how the invisible Yahweh reveals Himself visibly to humanity in the form of a man via The Angle of the Lord
How we are going to learn
Today we will be looking at the topic of the Bibles main characters in light of the ancient Near East. As I have done in the past with other teachings I want to quote from scholarly sources to make my point. I do this in hope that you will see this isn’t just my interpretation of the Scriptures but that this view is steeped in academia.
We will be using two amazing sources which we highly recommend.
- Faithlife Study Bible: This is an amazing resource that is free if you download the app or use it online. To download the app or use this resource online visit their website here. This resource is also available in print which you can purchase here.
- The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible: This is my favorite resource for gaining a better understanding for the ancient Near Eastern worldview of the Biblical authors. This is available in a multitude of variations all of which you can find on our resource page here.
Let’s get started
Ancient Near East Context
The ancient Near Eastern biblical authors view of God was similar to the other cultures in the ancient Near East.
Many of the nations which inhabited the ancient Near East believed that the creator god reigned from on top of a mountain with a second god at his side as his second in command. The names of these deities change within the different cultures of the ancient Near East but the roles of these two deities remains roughly the same.
The Ugaritic deities of EL and Baal are perfect examples that even casual readers of the Bible may be familiar with. The ancient Israelite neighbors believed that El was the creator and Baal the “most high” was his coregent.
Here is a quote from one of our recommend recourses to help us understand how the ancient Near Eastern Israelite culture repurposed this same concept
“Orthodox Yahwism replaced the coregent slot that Baal occupied with a sort of binitarian Godhead, In which Yahweh occupied both slots. The OT in fact describes Yahweh with the titles and abilities that Canaanite Literature attributes to both EL and Baal… Within Israelite religion, Yahweh’s occupation of both the two highest tiers resulted conceptually in two Yahwehs- one invisible, the other visible. At times both speak as characters in the same scene, but more frequently, they are virtually interchangeable.“
Faithlife Study Bible: in the Article: Old Testament Godhead Language
The ancient Near Eastern Biblical authors believed in a single God on top of a mountain who is revealed in two distinct ways Invisible and Visible.
Theophany
Any Christian who has read the Old Testament may know a good deal about the Invisible Yahweh, though much less is realized about the nature of second manifestation of the Godhead. God is one in essence but He has chosen to reveal Himself to humanity via the theophany of a man.
Here is a quote from the same resource to help us understand better the concept of theophanies
“Since people cannot possible process God’s nature as a disembodied, formless spirit, theophany allows God to make His presence known in a physical way that people can discern through their senses.”
Faithlife Study Bible: in the Article: Theophany in the Old Testament.
In the Old Testament Yahweh reveals Himself to Humanity in many ways. A whirlwind, a pillar of smoke, a still small voice are all theophanies that God used in the Old Testament.
While God uses many ways to make His presence know to people, today we want to focus our study to that of Yahwehs theophany of a man throughout the Old Testament.
For the second week of the Visible Yahweh as the Bibles main character teaching we will be looking at the Ancient Near Eastern Biblical authors use of the theophany of Yahweh as The Angel of the Lord.
Visible Yahweh as The Angel of the Lord
The Bible stories we are going to be looking at today are very familiar. It is very likely that for some time you have interpreted these passages in a different way. For a long time I had a different interpretation of these scriptures than that of which I now hold to be true.
We don’t want you to solely take our word for it but we want to equip our readers with the information to research these truths for themselves and adopt them into their own worldview. We hope that todays teaching helps provoke critical thinking, along with many ongoing questions, followed up by time spent in the word and handy resources to deepen their understand of the biblical text.
Moses Experience
Exodus 3
This is a well known account in the Bible. Last week while talking about Abrahams vision of the Word of God theophany we noticed it is easy for us to read over familiar sections of scripture with out paying close attention to the details. Children’s bible stories, movies, and sermons have all shaped how this story plays out in our heads.
Let’s take a closer look at the details of this passage and critically think aloud together.
The Details
“There the Angel of the Lord appeared to Him in flames of fire from within the bush. Mose saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.” (Exodus 3:2)
This scene of God speaking to Moses from the burning bush is an epic account in the Hebrew Scripture’s narrative. Yahweh is going to free His people from bondage and here He chooses Moses to carry out this plan.
Did you notice which form the Near Eastern biblical authors discribe God as appearing to Moses as in the burning bush?
The Angel of the Lord!
Who is this Angel?
Here are some more details that are proclaimed throughout this chapter about The Angel of the Lord.
The narrative says He is:
“God”, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”, “The LORD”, “The God of your fathers”, “I AM WHO I AM”, “I AM”, “The LORD, the God of your fathers- the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”, “The LORD, the God of your fathers-the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”, “The LORD, the God of the Hebrews”, “The LORD our God”.
Exodus 3
The Angel of the Lord is Yahweh
All of these epithets are used to describe the Angel of the Lord who was in the burning bush that Moses witnessed. The Angel of the Lord is the visible manifestation of the invisible God. The invisible God is visible by the embodied Angel of the Lord.
Here is another quote from our recommended resources
“The relationship between Yahweh and the Angel of Yahweh (“Angel of the Lord”) provides the most familiar example of “two Yahweh’s.” The OT writers at times deliberately make the Angel of Yahweh indistinguishable from Yahweh (e.g., Exod 3:1-14.)”
Faithlife Study Bible: in the Article: Old Testament Godhead Language
Notice “God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Mose said ‘Here I am.’” This is basically the same sequence that we looked at in the first week of The Visible Yahweh series. The stories of Moses and The Angel of the Lord theophany and Samuel with the Word of God theophany share similar elements.
The ancient Near Eastern biblical authors in both instances use the same literary device. Via this repeating pattern they communicate how the Invisible Yahweh appears to the Human through the Visible embodied Yahweh.
Both The Word, and The Angel of the Lord are the Visible Yahweh of the Old Testament.
Moses’ Further Experiences
Exodus 32
God tells Moses He will go before him as the angel of the Lord
34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Exodus 32:34
Exodus 33
God tells Moses He will not go with them but an angel will accompany them because He might destroy the Israelites on the way
“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”
Exodus 33:1-3
Exodus 33
Moses does not want to go with just any angel but with The Angel of the Lord
“If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. “
Exodus 33:15
Moses obviously knows that there is a massive difference between any angel and The Angel of the Lord. This is because The Angel of the Lord is Gods Presence. He is Yahweh in Visible form.
You can check out more information on Moses’ experience in our 8 part series Why is the World the Way it is? by clicking here.
Jacob’s Perception
Here is another quote from the same resource
“Perhaps most telling in this theology is the text of Gen 48:15-16, which fuses God and the Angel. Jacob, near death and pronouncing blessing on Joseph’s sons, speaks of God’s saving action in a way that highlights the fusion of Yahweh and the Angel: …
‘May the God before whom my fathers
Faithlife Study Bible: in the Article: Old Testament Godhead Language
Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully,
the God who has been my shepherd
all my life to this day,
the Angel who has delivered me from all harm
—may he bless these boys.
May they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they increase greatly
on the earth.'”
Jacob clearly thinks both of these entities are one and the same.
Gideons Experience
One of the best passages that shows the same but distinct nature of the Visible and Invisible Yahweh is found in the Book of Judges.
We will not be reading the whole passage but only want to drawl your attention to who is interacting with Gideon in this encounter:
11) The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah, When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” 13) “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, 14) The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”… 16) The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” 17) Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. 18)Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”…
20) The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. 21) Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. 22) When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!” 23) But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.”
24) So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 6:11-23
Did you guys catch that? Here we have both the invisible Yahweh and His visible theophany in the form of a man as The Angel of the Lord together in this encounter with Gideon. This is an amazing passage that gets right to the heart of our teaching on the Godhead/ trinitarian nature of God found in the Old Testament.
Just a Man?
Upon further inspection we notice some big details hidden in these couple of verses while Gideon is talking to this figure . After The Angel of the Lord reveals Himself to Gideon, Gideon does not seem to know who he is talking to. We could assume that Gideon is at first under the impression that he is only talking to a man.
Gideon and this being converse in casual dialog. He calls him my lord in lower case letters not the divine name LORD which he immediately references as he questions if Yahweh is present with Israel. Gideon doubts what he hears, asking for a sign so he could know if what was being said to him would truly come to pass.
Until verse 23 the text never gives us the notion that Gideon is under the impression he is having a divine experience.
The text literally says that it’s only after Gideons offering is consumed and this being subsequently vanish’s, that he came to the realization that he had just encountered The Angel of the Lord. Upon this recognition Gideon casual attitude changes to reverence being stuck with fear for his life for having seen The Angel of the Lord face to face.
One final shock is sent to the reader in verse 24 when after The Angel of the Lord has previous exited the scene Gideon now hears the words of the disembodied Yahweh comforting him to not be afraid for his life.
Wow this passage is simply fantastic!
In this narrative the visible man theophany as The Angel of the Lord and the invisible Lord are purposefully interchangeable to communicate to the reader that the two are both one and the same. They are both Yahweh and both possess all of Yahwehs attributes.
Balaams Experience
21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite officials. 22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road. 24 Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides. 25 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat the donkey again. 26 Then the angel of the Lord moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. 27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat it with his staff. 28 Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?” 29 Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.” 30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said. 31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown. 32 The angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me. 33 The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.” 34 Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.” 35 The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials. 36 When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite town on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory. 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?” 38 “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”
Numbers 22:21-38
The Angel of the Lord is Identified in this passage as one with a drawn sword in His hand. Again we see that these verses purposefully blur the language of the visible Yahweh and the Invisible Yahweh to be indistinguishable. Balaam is to speak only the words that the Angel of the Lord puts in his mouth and in the next chapter we see this come to pass.
“The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
Numbers 23:5
The Old Testament is rife with passages that reveal the same single Yahweh as both Invisible and Visible in the form of a man via the Angel of the Lord.
The Angel of the Lord is the Commander in Chief
Joshua’s perception
“Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” 14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” 15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.”
Joshua 5:13-15
This image of a man standing with a drawn sword in His hand who is the commander of the Lords army is very important to identifying who this character is. As noted above this being with a drawn sword in His hand is identified as the Angel of the Lord in other Bible verses. Here he is perceived by Joshua to be a man.
Joshuas perception of this being changes once he finds out that He is the Commander-in-chief. Here we see the Visible Yahweh in the form of a man talking with Joshua in this passage.
The Commander of the Lords army allows Joshua to worship Him and proceeds to directly quote the Angel of the Lord from the Exodus 3 encounter with Moses “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.”
We will gather from other passages in the Hebrew Bible that we can with confidence identify this man with the drawn sword in His hand as the Angel of the Lord.
Davids 2 Experience
Davids 1st experience
10 David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.” 11 Before David got up the next morning, the word of the Lord had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer: 12 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’” 13 So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.” 14 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.” 15 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. 16 When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd, have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.” 18 On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19 So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. 20 When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.” 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 23 Your Majesty, Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.” 24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. 25 David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
2 Samuel 24:10-25
Here we have some of the same recurring elements about the Angel of the Lord being the visible Yahweh as in previous stories. Such as the angel of the Lord with the sword drawn in His hand, and a consuming fire burning up the offering. We also have some new element introduced into this story.
As we will now see this gives us incredible insight on how the Angel of the Lord is know by another epithet in the Old Testament.
The Angel of the Lord is The Death Angel
Davids 2nd Experience
8 Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.” 9 The Lord said to Gad, David’s seer, 10 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’” 11 So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice: 12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.” 13 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.” 14 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead. 15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown. 17 David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people.” 18 Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord. 20 While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground. 22 David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.” 23 Araunah said to David, “Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this.” 24 But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.” 25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site. 26 David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. 27 Then the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. 29 The tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 21:8-30
This is the same story as above recounted again in the annals of the history of Israel. In this version however we have some more details than which is given to us in the other version. Now we are given the information that the sword of the Angel of the Lord is used for plagues and destroying people.
Here is what both accounts say about the punishment David Chooses:
Or three days of plague in your land?
or three days of the sword of the Lord—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.
The angel of the Lord with a sword drawn in His hand is The Commander of Yahwehs army as well as the Death Angel.
The Death Angel is the Angel of the Lord
Death of the First Born Son
1 Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt.
Exodus 11:1, 4
4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Exodus 12:13-29
26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
I know this may be completely new to many of you, but look at what the text says. The Lord “will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down”. This destroyer is the same as the one who later came to destroy Israel because of Davids sin. It is the Angel of the Lord, the Visible Yahweh in the form of a man.
This is significant because later in the New Testament Jewish converts to Christianity identified Jesus as the angel of the Lord who is also know as the destroyer or death angel in the Old Testament.
5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord* at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. *Some early manuscripts Jesus
Jude
The man with a drawn sword in His hand, The Commander of Yahwehs army, The destroyer, are all the Invisible Yahweh revealed to humanity in the form of a man via theophany as The Angel of the Lord.
God Chose to reveal Himself to us
Remember God does not exclusively use the form of a man theophany to appear to Humans. Yahweh uses many different forms to reveal Himself to humanity, such as smoke, storms, and as we just saw in Exodus 3 fire.
The Trinity that we have come to know as Christians is rooted in Old Testament theology. Ever since the beginning the Invisible God has chosen to make Himself known to humans through His visible manifestation in the form of a Man.
Before His incarnation, Jesus, the visible Yahweh, was known in the Old Testament as the second person of the trinity by four different descriptions.
After I learned about The Angel of the Lord theophany it literally changed the way I read the Bible. It gave me such a deeper appreciation for the value of the Old Testament and the profound impact it has upon the New Testament.
I hope that in time these revelations will have the same effect on you.
I want to leave you with this last quote.
“Theophanies set the precedent for Jesus. They help make sense of why and how God chose to appear in human form.”
Faithlife Study Bible: in the Article: Theophany in the Old Testament.
Peace and Blessing! We hope you enjoyed the 2nd week of our study on The Visible Yahweh as the Bibles main character via the man theophany of The Angel of the Lord.
Citations:
Faithlife Study Bible. J. D. Barry et al. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2012.
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