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NASB | Exodus 20:19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 20:19 Then they said to Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us or we will die." |
Subject: "God said"? ...The VERBAL voice of God? |
Bible Note: Num 12:6 He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. Num 12:7 "Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; Num 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?" Heb 1:1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, Heb 1:2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. Personally Wade, I'm suspicious of people who say, "The Lord told me..." as if God routinely speaks to them. God is loving AND holy and high and lifted up, the Almighty. He just does not reveal himself as casually talking to people. Even with a casual reading of the Old Testament one realizes the serious Holiness of God. Ex 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever." Then Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. Ex 20:1 Then God spoke all these words, saying, Ex 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.... Ex 20:18 All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. Ex 20:19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." Deut 5:4 "The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, Deut 5:5 while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said, Deut 5:6 'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.... Deut 5:22 "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. Deut 5:23 "And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. Deut 5:24 "You said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives. Deut 5:25 'Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die. Deut 5:26 'For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? Deut 5:27 'Go near and hear all that the LORD our God says; then speak to us all that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.' Deut 5:28 "The LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. Did you catch that last line, "They have done well in all that they have spoken?" The OT church rightly understood that a face to face confrontation with the living holy almighty God and hearing him speak personally to you was not casual. It was life threatening! I've got a Book here with over 1100 pages of God's Word. I'm content to learn what He's already said and to wait 'till I'm glorified before I hear Him with my new ears. But to answer your questions, No, the Bible does not preclude the possibility of someone actually hearing the audible voice of God. God is almighty and can do anything He wants, but he's already given us over 1100 pages of His word. What more do you want? Peace, P.S. 1 Tim 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 1 Tim 4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, |