Verse 22

When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Exod 33:20 : 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
  • Judg 13:21-23 : 21 The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel. 22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!” 23 But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
  • Isa 6:5-8 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.” 6 But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” 8 I heard the voice of the Lord say,“Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered,“Here I am, send me!”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”