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Originally Posted by Steel
To "...see Him..." is akin to our eating Him.
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I find this amusing. On par with "Riding on a boat in the Tennessee River is akin to listening to Frank Sinatra". Um, yeah. . . okay.
To see is not enough. To obey is necessary. "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision" implies that it's possible to be disobedient to the heavenly vision. Otherwise the author wouldn't have written that.
The two sons of Aaron sat there, ate and drank, with the 70 elders, and Dad, and Uncle Moses. They saw the blue expanse, the sapphire stones. They saw all the divine sights, just like everyone else. But they never made it off the mountain.
Seeing is not enough. Just like eating is not enough. Obedience is the way - not our obedience, but Jesus'. Our faith is not in ourselves but Him, in His obedience. When you get that, you get saved. Until you get that, you strive in vain, including your "eating".
(when I say 'you' here, of course I'm speaking of my own subjective experiences and impressions. Others may have other experiences).