Seeing the Face of God

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In Exodus 33 , Moses is allowed to see God. But Only from behind. A mortal man may not look upon the face of God. Ok, but. In Isaiah 6, Isaiah is permitted to see God in his Glory, including His Face. Is this inconsistent ?
 
One cannot see the Face of God!

Human powers are really limited.

If God granted Moses to see His back–that is a grace.

If God granted Isaiah gift to see His face–that is a grace.

If God granted Isaiah gift to see His face–then it is like St. Paul–Christ lived in St. Paul.

If Christ lived in St. Paul–Paul is no longer living in St. Paul.

As St. John’s Gospel says through St. John the Baptist–He must increase and we must decrease.
 
Isaiah did not see the face of God. It was a vision. Nobody saw God’s face until they beheld Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity incarnate.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John 1:14)

The longing to see God was a constant theme through the Old Testament, and no one was permitted to see God’s face and live until the advent of Christ.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life (1 John 1:1)

We see the face of God every day in the Mass if we want. when the priest raises the Eucharist and says, “Behold!” We see the face of God “in the flesh” every day when we look at the Eucharist. That is something Moses and the Old Testament patriarchs longed to do.

At the coming of Christ, man was finally able to look upon God with his eyes - not in a vision or in a dream or the back of God’s head, but the real, living God. We get to do it every day.

-Tim-
 
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