Title: Seeing the Lord in the Cloud

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: Why do so many passages in the Bible mention a cloud and glory at the same time? What do they have to tell us about the Second Coming and how we see the Lord?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 9:11, 13
Exodus 16:9-10; 24:16-17; 40:33-34, 38
Numbers 16:41-42
Isaiah 4:5; 6:1, 4; 6:5, 8
Ezekiel 1:26, 28; 10:1-4
Matthew 24:30
Mark 13:26
Revelation 15:8
Matthew 5:8
Ephesians 1:15, 18
Exodus 14:19-20
Hebrews 12:1
Luke 17:20
Isaiah 25:9

“Washing” in the Bible represents purification - unsurprisingly! Washing dirt from the skin symbolizes using true ideas from the Lord to remove evil desires and false ideas from our minds. This is the reason that washing was such an integral part of ritual; cleaning the body to perform physical acts of worship - something with no actual spiritual value - is symbolic of repenting our evils and falsities as part of worshiping the Lord.