Moses was a man who possessed two characteristics that pleased God: faithfulness and meekness. The words that God used to describe Moses could not be more highly esteemed. The Bible says, in Numbers 12:3, of Moses, “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.”
Excluding Jesus, Moses walked and conversed with God like no other person recorded in the scriptures. God directly communed with Moses. Of Moses, God said, “And he said, Hear now my words; If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” (Numbers 12:6-8)
Verse two chapter three of the book of Exodus, states that the angel of the LORD appeared unto Moses, and verse six goes on to say, "I am the God of thy father and Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God."
It is clear that it was God himself who spoke to Moses."Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Hereb. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God." (Exodus 3:1-6)
In the New Testament, just prior to his being stoned to death, Steven speaks of Moses' experience. "And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai and angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. This Moses whom they refused, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge? The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliver by the hand of the angel, which appeared to him in the bush." (Acts 7:30-35) Continuing in verse 38, Steven says,"This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:"
Moses spent many mysterious days up on the mountain speaking with God and receiving instructions, which include the well-known Ten Commandments that are so much a part of all our lives today.
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