Does Moses represent the Mind?

How we listen to the voice of God.

Welcome to the Daily Bible Chapter. My name is James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I attempt to read the Bible with fresh eyes, as if I don't know anything about it, and without consulting experts on what it "really" means.. Let's see where this takes us! 

I'm reading Young's Literal Translation (YLT) and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Deuteronomy 5

Much of this is a review of Exodus 20, including the Ten Commandments. I summarized the Ten Commandments this way: "[Y[our well-being depends on you and your faith. No other person can destroy the LORD who is within you, and no external object has any spiritual power."

Verses 22-33 elaborate on what happened in Exodus 20: 18:21. The Israelites were frightened by the voice of God and asked that God communicate with Moses directly.

The set-up for this took place in Exodus 19, of which I wrote:

More "paranormal" activity as the LORD descends on Mount Sinai. It's the latest of several visible, audible, and seemingly material appearances of the LORD in one form or another since the LORD walked in the Garden of Eden. The dense cloud (dark flying craft?), fire (lights circling around the craft?) and trumpet (deafening high-pitch sound?) are suggestive of what people today might think is a UFO encounter. But only Moses (accompanied by Aaron) is allowed  special communication with this frightening presence.

The LORD seems to be well beyond anything comprehensible to human experience.  

I think, however, that Chapter 19 is the metaphorical set-up  for Exodus 20, which contains what we call The Ten Commandments… I might suggest that this (literally) awe-some event in Chapter 19 might be akin to an overwhelming outpouring of "enlightenment" - the Ten Commandments -  that changes one's outlook forever. 

Just as we might see something through our eyes that changes us, so do we sometimes "see the light" internally and everything's different.. The external events described in Chapter 19 dramatizes  the Ten Commandments working on the inner self in Exodus 20.

It's odd that, based on a literal reading of either Exodus 19-20 or Deuteronomy 5, God wouldn't be able to speak to the crowds without starting a fire. That's why I don't think that literally happened. The Ten Commandments speak from our highest level of consciousness (God/Source/The Universe/The Lord) through a mediator (the mind, represented by Moses) to our "flesh" or subconscious self.

We need a filtering device, a mind, to filter the voice of God into our individual selves. I don't think I've stated it that way before, but I think it makes sense. Moses represents the mind or voice of God.

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