intro2faith said:
Ok...so what happens then to the fact that God is omnipresent? He would have known what was happening because He was also their at the time He was speaking in these verses. Or do you not believe that God is omnipresent?
Look at this verse:
Leviticus 22:Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
If the LORD is omnipresent, then where can the people go who are cut off from the presence of the LORD? The LORD has established that His presence is somewhere, whether it is in the garden of Eden in the cool of the evening, on His throne in heaven, talking to Abraham, or meeting with Moses in the tent of meeting. The LORD manifests his presence, he is not everywhere at the same time.
For an interesting look at how God sees things, look at these verses:
Zechariah 3:9For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zechariah 4:For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
The eyes of the LORD are not everywhere at once (omnipresent), nor do they see everything at once (omniscient), but they travel about the earth, seeing what they see.