"And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak to him."–Exodus 34.35

The second time Moses came down from the Mount not a single person could look on his face. He had been in the presence of God 40 days and nights. The tabernacle had been put outside the camp and from this time Moses spent all his time in the tabernacle. Without the intercession of Moses, God would not have gone with the people any further, but as the intercessor, Moses brought God again into their midst. He had been a leader before: now he was an intercessor. One man prevailed to bring a spiritual blessing to the people. 

When the tabernacle was to be built, in the end the people had to be restrained from bringing materials, they brought so much. Their whole attitude had changed. One man’s intercession had brought a nation back to God. Whenever Moses went in to the tabernacle, the cloud came down and God shut him in with himself. It was there that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. There, in God’s presence, he wrote as the Lord revealed to him the story of Creation and the history of his people. 

—The Intercession of Rees Howells by Doris Ruscoe