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  1. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

    • Nobody Has Seen God’s Face
    • What About Jacob? Didn’T He See God’s face?
    • Moses in God’s Presence
    • Christ Reflects God’s Face

    Certainly, no man has seen the face of God. As God told Moses in Exodus 33:20, when Moses was on Mt. Sinai and wanted to see God: And he said, “Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock.” What God did was actually hide Moses so that he coul...

    Now, what is meant by Genesis 32:30 when Jacob said, “I have seen the face of God?” We know that in John 1:18, Jesus refers to what God told Moses here in Exodus, that no man has seen the face of God; and yet, there are other passages in the Word of God that mention someone seeing God. This, of course, is dealing with a theophany, or really, a spir...

    Moses certainly was in God’s presence, just as he was in His presence when he walked up on Mt. Sinai and saw the bush burning. Although he did not see God, he saw the effects (the burning bush) and knew the relationship of God, as God said, “Take off your shoes, you are on holy ground.” So, here is an instance of God supposedly meeting someone “fac...

    There is a time in a believer’s life when he meets God face to face. That is when he comes to know Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. When a sinner realizes he is lost, and the only way to be saved — the only way for salvation is to come to God on His grounds and to repent (confess his sin of rejecting God’s Son). Then in a very real way that sin...

  2. Jun 25, 2019 · Did Anyone See the Face of God and Live? This problem of seeing God's face is compounded even further by the number of Bible characters who seemed to see God yet still live. Moses is the prime example: "The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend." (Exodus 33:11, NIV)

    • Matthew 5:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
    • Exodus 33:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
    • 1 John 3:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
    • John 14:21 ESV / 26 helpful votes. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
  3. Exodus 33:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

  4. Jan 4, 2022 · For the writers of the Bible, the human face could represent the entire person. In Psalm 105:4, God’s faithful ones were called to “seek his face always.” Even if we have not abandoned God, there are times when we neglect to pursue Him. God’s face, His holy character, is often obscured by our human condition and fleshly desires.

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  6. Matthew 5:8 says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." The Greek verb translated "see" (horao) is in a tense that denotes a future, continuous reality. In heaven we will continually be seeing God. Kings generally seclude themselves from direct contact with their people. It is a rare privilege to have an audience with a king.

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