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After Jacob wrestled with God in Genesis 32:
Isaiah's experience was a bit different in chapter 6:
Some angels see the spiritual form of God. Matthew 18:
But then Jesus admonished Philip in John 14:
This was a theophany of God, a physical manifestation of God.30 Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Isaiah's experience was a bit different in chapter 6:
This was a vision in Isaiah's brain.1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up;
He saw the Lord and some angelic beings in the heavenly realm.and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
He was awake. It was not a dream. It was a vision. He saw a spiritual reality in his vision. He saw spiritual forms with his spiritual eyes in a spiritual vision.5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
Some angels see the spiritual form of God. Matthew 18:
Jesus declared in John 1:10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
The uncreated Son of God has seen the uncreated God.18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
But then Jesus admonished Philip in John 14:
Paul explained it in Col 1:9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
At the same, Paul understood in 1 Timothy 6:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
No one can see the uncreated essence of God. God is not a created being, but we are. We cannot see the uncreated form of God.16 [God} alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see.
- Humans sometimes interact with the physical theophany of God.
- Humans sometimes see real spiritual visions of God.
- Some angels routinely see God as a spiritual being.
- No one has seen the uncreated essence of God except God.