May you rest in the Fathers unconditional love.

May the prince of peace crown you with joyful songs of

favor.

2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught
up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out
of the body I do not knowGod knows.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us then approach Gods throne of grace with
confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to
help us in our time of need..
Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: For I
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Exodus 33:11

So 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.
Deuteronomy 34:10: And there has not arisen a prophet
since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to
face.
Ephesians 2:6
6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Revelation 4
The Throne in Heaven
4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in
heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to
me like a trumpet, said, Come up here, and I will show
you what must take place after this. 2 At once I was in the
Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one
seated on the throne. 3 And he who sat there had the
appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne
was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

People in the Old Testament Who Saw God

1. Adam and Eve
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam,
and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had
taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought
her to the man. (Genesis 2:2122)
2. Cain and Abel
And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought
an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. Abel
also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat.
And the LORD respected Abel and his offering. (Genesis
4:3-4)
3. Enoch
After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three
hundred years, and had sons and daughters. And Enoch
walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
(Genesis 5:22, 24)
4. Noah, His Wife, His Sons, and Their Wives
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. (Genesis
6:9)
So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in
as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
(Genesis 7:16)
5. Abraham
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, To your
descendants I will give this land. And there he built an
altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. (Genesis

12:7)
So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished
speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his
place. (Genesis 18:33)
Genesis 18:1 Abraham's Celestial Visitors
1Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre,
while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
6. Sarah
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I
have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also? But Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh, for she
was afraid. And He said,
No, but you did laugh! (Genesis 18:12, 15)
And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the
LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. (Genesis 21:1)
7. Hagar
Then 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 16:13)
8. Ishmael
So God was with the lad [son of Hagar]. (Genesis 21:20)
9. Isaac
And the LORD appeared to him [Isaac] the same night
and said, I am the God of Abraham your father; fear
not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply
your descendants for my servant Abrahams sake.
(Genesis 26:24)
10. Rebekah
So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to

her . . . (Genesis 25:22b-23)

11. Jacob
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: I am the
LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac;
the land on which you lie I will give to you and your
descendants . . . Behold, I am with you and will keep you
wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I
will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to
you. (Genesis 28:13, 15)
Then God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell
there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you
when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. (Genesis
35:1)
12. Joseph
The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful
man; . . . But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him
mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of
the prison. (Genesis 39:2a, 21)
And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into
Egypt. But God was with him . . . (Acts 7:9)
13. Moses
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the
king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
(Hebrews 11:27)
14. Aaron
Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the
assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on
their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
(Numbers 20:6)

15. The Whole Hebrew Congregation

also a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil; for
today the LORD will appear to you. . . . Then Moses said,
This is the thing which the LORD commanded you to
do, and the glory of the LORD will appear to you.
(Leviticus 9:4, 6) And the LORD appeared in the tent in a
pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door
of the tent. (Deuteronomy 31:15)
16. Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and Seventy of the Elders of Israel Then Moses went up,
also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel . . . and they saw the God of Israel. . . . But on the
nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So
they saw God, and they ate and drank. (Exodus 24:911)
17. Joshua
So 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. (Exodus 33:11)
Then the LORD said to Moses, Behold, the days approach
when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in
the tabernacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him. So
Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the
tabernacle of meeting. . . . Then He inaugurated Joshua the
son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for
you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which
I swore to them, and I will be with you. (Deuteronomy
31:14, 23)

18. Balaam
The utterance of him who hears the words of God, who
sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes
wide open. . . . The utterance of him who hears the words
of God, and has the knowledge of the Most High, who sees
the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes wide
open. (Numbers24:4, 16)
19. Gideon
And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to
him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.
(Judges 6:12)
20. Manoah and Wife (Samsons parents)
And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman
[Manoahs wife, Samsons mother] and said to her,
Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall
conceive and bear a son. . . . And the woman ran in haste
and told her husband, Behold, the man who came to me
the other day has appeared to me. . . . The angel of the
LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then
Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. (Judges
13:3, 10, 21)
21. Samuel
And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times,
Samuel! Samuel! And Samuel said, Speak, for your
servant hears. (1 Samuel 3:10)
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband,
As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he
may appear in the presence of the LORD, and abide there
forever. (1 Samuel 1:22) And the LORD visited Hannah,
and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters.

And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.

(1 Samuel 2:21)
And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD
revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the
LORD. (1 Samuel 3:21)
22. David
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[a] had
appeared to David his father, at the place that David had
appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (2
Chronicles 3:1)
For David says concerning Him: I foresaw the LORD
always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I
may not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my
tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
(Acts 2:25-28)
I have set the LORD always before me; because He is at
my right hand I shall not be moved. . . . You will show me
the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your
right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalms 16:8, 11)
23. Solomon
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart
had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who
had appeared to him twice. (1 Kings 11:9)
Isaiah
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling
the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

Job
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You; (Job 42:5) 26. Amos
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,
"Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, And
break them on the heads of them all! Then I will slay the
rest of them with the sword; They will not have a fugitive
who will flee, Or a refugee who will escape. (Amos 9:1)
27. Gideon
When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, he
said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of
the LORD face to face." (Judges 6:22)
28. Manoah
So Manoah said to his wife, "We will surely die,
for we have seen God." (Judges 13:22) 29. Ezekiel
26 And above the expanse over their heads there was the
likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire;[g] and
seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with
a human appearance. 27 And upward from what had the
appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal,
like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And
downward from what had the appearance of his waist I
saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was
brightness around him. (Ezekiel 1:26-27) 30. Jeremiah
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (Jeremiah
1:4)
31. Elijah
And he said, Go out and stand on the mount before the
Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and

strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the

rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.
And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in
the earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11-18)

It wasnt just a vision.

Moses saw God and not in a vision or dream--as the LORD
Himself attests in Num. 12:6-8. Numbers 12:68 He said,
Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I,
the Lord, shall make Myself known to him in a a vision.
I shall speak with him in a dream.Not so, with My
servant Moses,
He is faithful in all My household; With him I speak mouth
to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the
form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?


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We are Holy by Yeshuas blood.

Romans 5:1
New International Version
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, Gods special possession, that you may declare
the praises of him who called you out of darkness into
his wonderful light. 1

2 Corinthians 5:21 New International Version

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in
him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 3:22 New International Version
This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus
Christ to all who believe. There is no difference
between Jew and Gentile,
John 4:17
This is how love is made complete among us so that we
will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world
we are like Jesus.
John 14:12
12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the
works I have been doing, and they will do even greater
things than these, because I am going to the Father.
John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to
you.

2 Corinthians 1:20
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are
"Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken

by us to the glory of God.

A born again believer can see the face of God.
Though Exodus 33:20 says "But He said, 'You cannot
see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.'" Paul
said "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17) As a new
creation in Christ we now have access to the Father
according to Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach Gods
throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive
mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need
We are already seated with Christ and are told to
approach him.
The word man in First Timothy 6:16 below is the Greek
word anthropos. According to the Complete Word Study
Dictionary, that word means "sinful man." In other
words, it is sinful man that has never seen nor can ever
see the Lord who dwells in unapproachable light. We the
redeemed are already seated there together with Him!
(See Ephesians 2:6) And in fact God uses the very word
Approach in Hebrews 4:16 to talk about us coming to
Him clearly He is approachable to His children.
Which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord

of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in

unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see,
to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen (1
Timothy 6:15-16)
In addition when looking at the Aramaic manuscripts of
the verses here in Timothy it says that no one can see the
eternal fullness of his glory because he is unending in
the revelations of himself that he shows us.

We are sons of God

John 1:12
New International Version
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God
Romans 8:16
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are
children of God,
This verse was speaking of the finished work of the fullness
of Jesus ministry when God had many children through

their faith in Jesus it was written in past tense while the

next is used in the present tense as it begins the story of
Jesus life.
John 1:18New International Version (NIV)
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who
is himself God and[a] is in closest relationship with the
Father, has made him known.
Notice in the verse at the time he was called The one and
only son but there are many verses that call us Gods
children.
Galatians 3:26
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Another reason John 1:18 cannot be used to support the
argument that it is not possible to see the face of God is
because this verse was used at the very beginning of Christs
ministry before Christs death (Rom 6:8), resurrection (1
Cor 15:4) and ascension to the right hand of the Father
(Eph 2:6) which made us justified (Rom 5:1) and in
conclusion we are righteous before God (2 Cor 5:21,
Romans 3:22) and have access to His throne. (Heb 4:16)