Exodus 20:21

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

“This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.

You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”

I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”

(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,

Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.