Execution and Shiny Faces

I have kept up in my reading and I have wanted to blog but believe it or not Exodus 19-40 (the end of the book) are all laws and rather boring but I did find two awesome stories in there that I didn't really know about.
EXECUTION
Exodus 32:21-29 http://bit.ly/dq6Dn7 tells us of when Moses comes down off Mount Sinai. He has been up there forever and down below even though God is physically on the mountain above them the people are like "eh I don't really know if He brought us out of Egypt lets make a god" So they go to Aaron (Moses's brother) and tell him to make them a god so he gets all their gold jewelry and makes a calf. Well God knows this has happened (duh) and tells Moses and Moses comes down and ask Aaron about it and Aaron is like "I just magically got some gold and threw it in a fire and a cow came out!"
Well Moses is really annoyed so he stands at the entrance to the camp and says if you are still for the LORD come here. All the Levites come to him and he gives them all swords and says go kill people. So they go and kill about 3000 people and the Levites become blessed...Did anyone else miss that one growing up? You hear that Moses breaks the tablets and that he is mad but who knew this happened? Not me. A lot of random stories like this take place in the bible in between stuff, I mean this is just 8 verses. But either way it was a new thing for me. Next

Shiny Faces
Exodus 34:29-35 http://bit.ly/d4wTgr After the story I just talked about Moses has to go get new tablets right? We again know this part of the story. Well the Bible says that when he came down his face shone because he had spoken with the Lord and everyone was afraid. I don't know if it didn't happen before or it wore off but it didn't this time. Apparently it shone forever after this because it says Moses wore a veil except when he went into the tent of meeting to speak with God. Which by the way it says he spoke to the Lord as a man face to face as if they were friends (Exodus 33:7-11). So once again I am thinking Jesus because a few verses earlier (34:1-7) God shows Moses his true form the "I AM" but only his back because no one can see His face and live. Another interesting note that I picked up in "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell is that "back" in the Hebrew is probably something that means like "where I just was" so the closest Moses can get to seeing God's glory (which is what he ask to see) is seeing where He, It, I AM just was. In this way Moses has a relationship with Jesus that no man will again experience until the disciples.