Just check out that face to face comment about Moses. Moses was told to turn away and Jehovah showed his brilliance through the powerful angel that was talking to Moses form the burning bush. The brilliance was so great, and it was not a face to face with the God of all men, Moses descended from the mountain with a sunburned face that was noticed by the Israelites.
This coincides with the scripture:
In accounts where it might seem that the Bible says that humans literally saw God, the context shows that God was represented by an
angel or appeared by means of a
vision.
[h=3]Angels.[/h] In ancient times, God sent angels as his representatives to appear to humans and to speak in his name. (
Psalm 103:20) For example, God once spoke to Moses from a burning bush, and the Bible says that “Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at the true God.” (
Exodus 3:4, 6) Moses did not literally see God, though, for the context shows that he actually saw “Jehovah’s angel.”—
Exodus 3:2.
Similarly, when the Bible says that God “spoke to Moses face-to-face,” it means that God conversed with Moses intimately. (
Exodus 4:10, 11; 33:11) Moses did not actually see God’s face, for the information he received from God “was transmitted through angels.” (
Galatians 3:19; Acts 7:53) Still, Moses’ faith in God was so strong that the Bible described him as “seeing the One who is invisible.”—
Hebrews 11:27.