Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

heaven. The great leader understood his meaning. In their conscious
guilt, they could not endure the heavenly light which would have
filled them with joy if they had been obedient to God.
Moses put a veil on his face and continued to do this whenever
he returned to the camp from communion with God.
By this brightness, God intended to impress on Israel the
exalted character of His law and the glory of the gospel revealed
through Christ. While Moses was on the mountain, God presented to
him not only the tablets of the law, but also the plan of salvation. He
saw that all the types and symbols of the Jewish age pointed forward
to the sacrifice of Christ. It was the heavenly light streaming from
Calvary, just as much as from the glory of the law of God, that
caused such radiance on the face of Moses.
The glory reflected in the face and expression of Moses
testifies that the closer our communion is with God and the clearer
our knowledge of His requirements, the more fully we will be
conformed to the divine image.
As Israel's intercessor (Moses) veiled his face, so Christ, the
divine Mediator, veiled His divinity with humanity when He came
to earth. If He had come clothed with the brightness of heaven,
sinful human beings could not have endured the glory of His
presence. So He humbled Himself, and was made "in the likeness of
sinful flesh" (Romans 8:3), that He might reach the fallen race and
lift them up.
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