PART 1
Exodus 32:1-7
As I write this article I am thinking of the times I've returned from foreign countries and wanted to kiss the ground that I was standing on. But that was then, now we must look at things as they are today. In this endeavor we are so fortunate to have the historical records that provide us with the capability of comparing the present with the past.
At this point we must go to the Word of God to see what has happened to nations in the past for failing to follow the leading and direction of God. In Exodus 32: 1-7:
(V1) "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him."
(V1) It seems that brotherly trust vanished between Moses and Aaron when the people thought that Moses tarried too long on the mountain with God. So Aaron acting impatiently decided to take matters into his own hands. The bible testifies to the fact that Moses was involved with law making and Aaron in idol fashioning.
(V2) "And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."
(V2) While listening to the voice of the disgruntled multitude, Aaron gave the order to melt down all of the gold that was dangling from the ears of the people.
(V3) "And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron."
(V3) The outcome of this meltdown was that Aaron took all of the melted gold and fashioned it into a golden calf so that the faithless sojourners could worship it instead of Jehovah. Much like today the impatient wilderness congregation could not wait for their great leader Moses to return so they bowed before the melted gods that could not speak, see, hear, or eat shouting these are the gods that brought us out of the land of Egypt. Here we can't help but notice the comparison between Moses and Jesus. Moses went to meet with God and while he tarried the people corrupted themselves. Over two milleniums have passed since Jesus left the Mount of Olives after promising his faithful followers that He would return again (John 14:3). Today we see numerous people duplicating the same idolatrous lifestyle as they did in the day of Moses. Jesus Himself asked this troublesome question found in Luke 18:8. "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" When a nation begins to self destruct it will always start in the spiritual area and when moral decay sets in the nation little by little will soon be brought down by its own people within and by its enemies without.
In Matthew 7:26, 27 Jesus describes a man that had heard His sayings and did them not, "shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house on the Sand": V27 "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
(V4) "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
(V4) After receiving the earrings Aaron used a graving tool to fashion a molten calf out of them and then the backslidden people began to shout "These be thy gods, that brought us out of the land of Egypt". At this point they committed the awful sin of idolatry, a sin that God literally hates.
(V5) "And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord."
(V5) Then Aaron's eyes were opend and there was an altar erected before the idol and a proclamation that there would be a feast made unto the Lord the next day.
(V6) "And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
(V6) In today's modern mega churches it would read something like this, And the people rise up early every Sunday morning to go and offer up scorched offerings in their swanky lounges and fashionable coffee shops where who knows who is doing who knows what.
(V7) "And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for the people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:" (Read verse 2 again)
(V7) When God had finished talking to Moses on Mt. Sinai He commanded him to return to the unruly and irresponsible multitude that he had brought out of Egypt because they had corrupted themselves. The word used here for corruption also means demoralized, perverted, and debauched.
To Be Continued in Part 2
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