OT Notes Ex. 33

I have not worked on this passage very much. It deserves some attention.

     1) I tend to read the glory of God as the presence of God. I take the long held view that we do not see god and live as a sign of finitude in the orbit of infinity. God does acquiesce to the request of Moses as far as God is willing, or perhaps what Moses could endure. I am fascinated by the goodness passing over Moses. I wonder how much of the presence of god one could handle, even in heaven, especially paul’s move from a mirror dimly to face to face.

2. The awe-inspiring god is one of forgiveness, even after the replication of the Fall with the Golden Calf episode.
3. v. 19 is a wonderful set of divine promises that match up nicely with the next chapter on the attributes of God.
4. Here is a parade example for the boldness of prayer. this time Moses does not bring in much on the reputation of God, but is in the ballpark with the talk of distinguishing the people who are allied with the presence of God. The presence of god constitutes this people and the leadership of Moses.
5. do you speculate on what it would be like to be in the goodness of God?
6. I detect a note of real tenderness when God has Moses hide to be even part of the the glory/goodness.