A. Did God appear as a Man?

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1.       In the Garden

²⁶Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over ^all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26

⁸And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:8

The image of man comes from God’s likeness.  God takes Human form in his fellowship with man in the Garden of Eden.

2.       At the Tent with Abraham

¹Then the Lord appeared to him by ^the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. ²So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, ³and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. ⁴Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. ⁵And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.”

They said, “Do as you have said.”…. ¹⁶Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way. ¹⁷And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,,… ²²Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.  Genesis 18: 1-5, 16-17, 22

 ¹Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. Genesis 19:1

3.       Jacob wrestled with a Man

²⁴Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. ²⁵Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. ²⁶And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”²⁷So He said to him, “What is your name?”He said, “Jacob.”²⁸And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but ^Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”…..³⁰So Jacob called the name of the place ^Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Genesis 32:24-28,30

4.       Moses and the Elders of Israel See God

⁹Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. ¹¹But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.¹²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
Exodus 24:12

 ¹¹So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle..….. ²²So 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. ²³Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Exodus 33:11, 22-23

5.       God talks to Moses about his appearance
⁶Then He said,

 “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision;
 I speak to him in a dream.
⁷               Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house.
⁸               I speak with him face to face,Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
And he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”
Numbers 12:6-8

6.       Commander of the Lord’s Army appears to Joshua

¹³And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”¹⁴So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”

And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

¹⁵Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.. Joshua 5:13-15

7.       Ancient of Days & Son of Man

⁹               “I watched till thrones were put in place,

   And the Ancient of Days was seated;

                His garment was white as snow,

                And the hair of His head was like pure wool.

                His throne was a fiery flame,

                Its wheels a burning fire;

¹⁰             A fiery stream issued

                And came forth from before Him.

                A thousand thousands ministered to Him;

                Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him.

                The ^court was seated,

                And the books were opened.

¹³             “I was watching in the night visions,

                And behold, One like the Son of Man,

                Coming with the clouds of heaven!

                He came to the Ancient of Days,

                And they brought Him near before Him.

¹⁴             Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,

                That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.

                His dominion is an everlasting dominion,

                Which shall not pass away,

                And His kingdom the one

                Which shall not be destroyed.

Daniel 7:9-10,13-14

8.       ²⁶And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. ²⁷Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

        Ezekiel 1:26-27

B. The Angel of the Lord

1.       The Angel of the LORD talks to Hagar

⁹The Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.” ¹⁰Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.” ¹¹And the Angel of the Lord said to her:

      “Behold, you are with child,

      And you shall bear a son.

      You shall call his name Ishmael,

      Because the Lord has heard your affliction.

¹²    He shall be a wild man;

      His hand shall be against every man,

      And every man’s hand against him.

      And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

¹³Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”   Genesis 16:9-13

2.       The Angel of the LORD talks to Abraham

¹¹But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

So he said, “Here I am.”

¹²And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

¹³Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴And Abraham called the name of the place, ^The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

¹⁵Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—¹⁷blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Genesis 22:11-18

3. The Angel of the Lord talks to Moses

²And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. ³Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

⁴So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

Exodus 3:2-4

1.       The Angel of the Lord talks to Balaam

And he said, “No.”

³¹Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell flat on his face. ³²And the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand against you, because your way is perverse before Me. ³³The donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, surely I would also have killed you by now, and let her live.”

³⁴And Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases You, I will turn back.”

³⁵Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

 Numbers 22:31-35

2.       The Angel of the Lord talks to Israel

¹Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: “I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you. ²And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this? ³Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns^ in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.’” ⁴So it was, when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Judges 2:1-4

3.       The Angel of the Lord talks to Gideon

¹¹Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. ¹²And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

¹³Gideon said to Him, “O ^my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

¹⁴Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?”

¹⁵So he said to Him, “O ^my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

¹⁶And the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”

¹⁷Then he said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me. ¹⁸Do not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You.”

And He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

¹⁹So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot; and he brought them out to Him under the terebinth tree and presented them. ²⁰The Angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.

Judges 6:11-20

4.       The Angel of the Lord talks to Manoah

³And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son…… ⁶So the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name.

⁹And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. ¹⁰Then the woman ran in haste and told her husband, and said to him, “Look, the Man who came to me the other day has just now appeared to me!”……

¹³So the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. ¹⁴She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her let her observe.”

¹⁵Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain You, and we will prepare a young goat for You.”

¹⁶And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Though you detain Me, I will not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord.)

¹⁷Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass we may honor You?”

¹⁸And the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wonderful[2]?”…….

²²And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”

  Judges 13:3-23

C. Son of God

1.       The Messiah will be the Son of God

¹²“When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. ¹⁵But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ¹⁶And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before ^you. Your throne shall be established forever.”’”

2 Samuel 7:12-16

2.  The Son of the LORD reigns over the nations

Psalm 2

¹     Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?

²     The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed[5], saying,

³     “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.”

⁴    He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.

⁵     Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure:

⁶     “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”

⁷     “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

⁸     Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

⁹     You shall ^break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”

¹⁰    Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

¹¹    Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

^{12    }Kiss the Son, lest ^He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

Psalm 2:1-12

3.  The Son of the LORD is called Might God

⁶               For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder.

                And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

⁷               Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end,Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,

                To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever.

                The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 9:6-7

4. The will greive over the “Firstborn” Son who was pierced

¹⁰“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. ¹¹In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of ^Megiddo.

Zechariah 12:10-11

D. Arm of the Lord

1.       All the Earth will see the Arm of the Lord

¹⁰    The Lord has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see

      The salvation of our God.

Isaiah 52:10

¹³             Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently;He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.

¹⁴             Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man,

                And His form more than the sons of men;

¹⁵             So shall He ^sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall consider.

Isaiah 52:13-15

The world will see the LORD’S Arm

The “Arm” is the righteous Servant who suffers for the Sins of the World and intercedes on our behalf.

2.       The Arm of the Lord is revealed to people

¹     Who has believed our report?

      And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

²     For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground.

      He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him,

      There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

³     He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

¹⁰    Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

^{11    }He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

¹²    Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many,And made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53:1-12

The sufferings of the Arm of the LORD are described in the 53^rd chapter.

3.       The Arm of the Lord is our Intercessor and Salvation

¹     Behold, the Lord’S hand is not shortened,

      That it cannot save;

      Nor His ear heavy,

      That it cannot hear.

²     But your iniquities have separated you from your God;

      And your sins have hidden His face from you,

      So that He will not hear.

¹⁵             So truth fails,

                And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

                Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him

                That there was  no justice.

¹⁶             He saw that there was no man,

                And wondered that there was no intercessor;

                Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;

                And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

¹⁷             For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

                And a helmet of salvation on His head;

                He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,

                And was clad with zeal as a cloak.

Isaiah 59:1-2,15-17

In the 59^th chapter of Isaiah the hopless condition of Man is described. 

An observation is made by God, that he saw there was no man…no one to intercede for man…therefore we are told “His own arm” brought salvation.  

His “Arm” is described in the 53^rd chapter.

4.       No one was able to bring salvation except the Arm of the Lord

¹     Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah,

      This One who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength?— “I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

²     Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

³     “I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me.

      For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes.

⁴     For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come.

⁵     I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered

      That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;

      And My own fury, it sustained Me.

⁶     I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.”

⁷     I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord And the praises of the Lord,

      According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,

      Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

⁸     For He said, “Surely they are My people,Children who will not lie.”

      So He became their Savior.

⁹     In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them;

      In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.

¹⁰    But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,

      And He fought against them.

Isaiah 63:1-10

5.       The Coastlands will trust in the Arm of the Lord

⁴     “Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me,

      And I will make My justice rest As a light of the peoples.

⁵     My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,

      And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait upon Me,

      And on My arm they will trust.

⁹               Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord!

                Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old.

                Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart, And wounded the serpent?

Isaiah 51:4-5,9

6.       The voice of the LORD will be heard and His Arm will descend

³⁰    The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And show the descent of His arm,

      With the indignation of His anger And the flame of a devouring fire,With scattering, tempest, and hailstones.

Isaiah 30:30

7.       The Arm of the LORD is coming to rule for the LORD

Isaiah 40

¹     “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God.

²     “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned;

      For she has received from the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.”

³     The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight ^in the desert

      A highway for our God.

⁴     Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth;

⁵     The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁶     The voice said, “Cry out!” And ^he said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

⁷     The grass withers, the flower fades, Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.

⁸     The grass withers, the flower fades,

      But the word of our God stands forever.”

⁹     O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem,

      You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

¹⁰    Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him,

Isaiah 40:1-10

8.       The Arm of the LORD redeemed His people

¹⁴             You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.

¹⁵             You have with Your  arm redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.

Selah

Psalm 77:14-15

9.       The Arm of the Lord is the LORD’S Salvation

¹     Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things;

      His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.

²     The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.

³     He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;

      All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 98:1-3

10.   The Arm of LORD  is the Light of the LORD countenance

²               You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted;

                You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

³               For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them;

                But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them.

      Psalm 44:2-3

11.   The Arm of the LORD is the promised redemption for Israel

⁶Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

 Exodus 6:6

E. Glory of the Lord

1. The Glory of the Lord hears Israel’s complaints against the LORD

⁷And in the morning you shall see the glory[6] of the Lord; for He hears your complaints against the Lord. But what are we, that you complain against us?” ⁸Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the Lord hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.”

⁹Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.’” ¹⁰Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

Exodus 16:7-12

2.        The Glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of  Mt. Sinai

¹⁶Now the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights..

Exodus 24:16-18

3. The Glory of the LORD consumed the offering of Aaron

⁶Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord commanded you to do, and the glory of the Lord will appear to you.” ⁷And Moses said to Aaron, “Go to the altar, offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. Offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded.”

Leviticus 9:6-7

 4. Moses and Aaron fall on their faces before the Glory of the LORD

⁶So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

⁷Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁸“Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”

Numbers 20:6-7

5. The Glory of the LORD filled the Temple

¹¹so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.¹²Then Solomon spoke:“The Lord said He would dwell in the dark cloud.

¹³    I have surely built You an exalted house,And a place for You to dwell in forever.”

I Kings 8:11-13

6.  The glory of the LORD shall be revealed to all flesh

⁵     The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together;

      For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁶     The voice said, “Cry out!” And ^he said, “What shall I cry?”

      “All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

⁷     The grass withers, the flower fades, Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;

      Surely the people are grass.

⁸     The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”

⁹     O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain;

      O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength,

      Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

¹⁰    Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him;Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.

Isaiah 40:5-10

7.  The glory of the LORD is the light to the Gentiles

¹     Arise, shine;For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
²     For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people;
 But the Lord will arise over you,And His glory will be seen upon you.
³     The Gentiles shall come to your light,
 And kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 60:1-3

8.  The Glory of the LORD had the appearance of a Man

²⁵A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings.

²⁶And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. ²⁷Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. ²⁸Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. ¹And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” ²Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.

Ezekiel 1:25-2:2

²³So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. ²⁴Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

Ezekiel 3:23-24

⁴And the glory of the Lord came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east. ⁵The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

⁶Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. ⁷And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

Ezekiel 43:4-7

⁴Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord; and I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 44:4

F. The One Pierced

⁵               But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;

                The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

¹⁶             For dogs have surrounded Me;The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.

                They^ pierced My hands and My feet;

¹⁷             I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

¹⁸             They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.

Psalm 22:16-18

¹The ^burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: ²“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. ⁹It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

Zechariah 12:1-10