The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.
God promised Moses three things in the scriptures above:
1. He would come to Moses.
2. Israel would hear God speaking to Moses.
3. As a result, they would always put their trust in Moses.
This coming to Moses by God was very real, tangible, and visible. The dense cloud could be seen, and it was not an ordinary cloud, but the dense cloud of the presence of the One True God!
God came to Moses, and everyone with Him could see it!
God did it ON PURPOSE, TO BE SEEN BY THE PEOPLE MOSES LED!
What more could a leader want than God to come to him or her in the most real way, so that the followers would see and know that God is with this leader?!
I just can’t think of anything better than this!
The Israelites had NO reason to distrust Moses. We as Americans may have reason to distrust our leaders, even the ones we vote into office. But God is perfectly trustworthy, and His choice of leadership is perfect. When he backs a leader by His own presence, this leader is perfectly trustworthy, only because God is perfectly trustworthy. No other nation had the privilege of being the nation with whom God Himself resided. And no other man on earth except Moses spoke to God face to face!
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