"When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony. And he spoke with Him." [Numbers 7:89]
I don't know for sure, but this may be the first recorded instance where God speaks to Moses from the Mercy Seat, that space between the two cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant.
Was Moses taken back at all? He was used to God speaking from something more spectacular. From burning bushes, pillars of fire and columns of smoke. He'd spent 40 days with God thundering on Mt. Sinai. Wouldn't a voice coming from the relatively small space between the cherubim's wings seem far less majestic and powerful.
Did Moses sense a distance gathering between him and the Lord? Did he feel one step farther removed from the Father? Is that what's happening here?
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