Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

people."
The answer was, "My Presence will go with you, and I will
give you rest." But Moses was not yet satisfied. He prayed that the
favor of God might be restored to His people and that the visible
evidence of His presence might continue to direct their journey: "If
Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found
grace in Your sight, except that You go with us?"
And the Lord said, "I will also do this thing that you have
spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by
name." The prophet still did not stop pleading. He now made a
request that no human being had ever made before: "Please, show
me Your glory."
Moses Sees God's Glory
The gracious words were spoken, "I will make all My goodness
pass before you." Moses was called to the mountain summit; then
the hand that made the world, that hand that "removes the
mountains, and they do not know" (Job 9:5), took this creature of
the dust and placed him in a cleft of the rock, while the glory of God
and all His goodness passed before him.
To Moses, this experience was an assurance that was worth
infinitely more to him than all the learning of Egypt or all his
achievements as a statesman or military leader. No earthly power or
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