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INTRODUCTION TO REVELATIONS : M.M.NINAN “In the Old Testament the word translated as blindness (Gen. 19:11; 2 Kin. 6:18) suggests that God caused a trancelike state to fall on the men at Lot’s house and on the Syrians. Trances are experiences through which God communicates His will and purpose to man.” Direct <strong>Revelation</strong> This is the ultimate revelation as we have seen in the case of Moses, in the banquet of Yhvh with the elders in the convenat ceremony and the Three disciples in the mount of Transfiguration. Note in Numbers 12:8 …. Moses … With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: Even here notice it is in the similitude, the maximum extend to which God could communicate with man within the limitations of the dimensions of existence. 29
INTRODUCTION TO REVELATIONS : M.M.NINAN Exo 24:9-11 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. The Bible tells us that "there was no other prophet who arose in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face." Maimonides lists a number of ways in which Moses' manner of communicating with God was superior to that of any other prophet. He bases these differences upon God's statement: "If there be prophets among you, I, the Lord, will make Myself known to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream. Not so is My servant Moses; he is the most trusted of all My household. With him I speak mouth to mouth; in a vision and not in riddles, and he beholds the image of God..." Except for Moses all the others received their prophecy while asleep or in a trance like state. Moses, on the other hand, was fully aware and conscious when he stood before God. Moses "saw" what God was telling him with the clarity of literal vision. All others only received their communiqués by way of riddles and parables. While most prophets became fearful and agitated while receiving divine communication, Moses remained calm and collected. He spoke with God "as a man would speak to a friend." Moses was able to converse with God whenever he so wished. Other prophets had to wait for revelations from God; they needed to enter a spiritually aware state in order to receive God's presence. Moses was constantly on such an elevated plane. Moses was the only Prophet, according to Judaism, that communicated directly with God, all of the other Prophets, communicated through the Angels Gabriel. When the Israelites heard the voice of God at Mount Sinai, they pleaded with Moses to be the mediator lest they die. Since because of this fear of receiving the laws directly from Yhvh himself and let Yhvh live in their midst, this desire of God was postponed for a period. Deu 18:15 Jehovah your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, One like me. To Him you shall listen. This was never fulfilled in the Old Testament period. From Malachi till Jesus for a period of 400 years prophesy ceased. Hece, God himself wanting live among his people and talk to them directly took the form of man in Jesus. He himself was the word of God made flesh – the ultimate Prophet. 30
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