BRAGADAYJAH 139

Thursday, May 29, 2014

BRAGADAYJAH 257

Broken Law – The Golden Calf           

While Moses was on the mountain with God, the people became restless; not only restless, but they fell away from the God whom they had vowed to serve, and fell into idolatry.  So they gathered themselves unto Aaron and commanded that he make them gods, the excuse they made was, that they did not know what had become of Moses, the man who led them out of Egypt.  Apparently not seeing Moses caused them to forget the Almighty One who had led them, guarded, shielded and protected them and led them through the red sea.
            And so Aaron for whatever his reasons yielded to their pressure and told them to break off all the gold jewelry that they wore, men, women, sons and daughters, and give them to him so that he could make them gods as they demanded. The people complied and gave Aaron the gold ornaments and which Aaron melted down and fashioned into engraved image of a golden calf, and presented it to them saying, “Here you are; this is the god that brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
            After Aaron saw the reaction of the people to the molten image, the very thing God had warned them against, Aaron also built an altar before the golden image and declared, “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.”
            And accordingly early in the morning on the next day, the people rose up early and worshipped before the graven images before the alter and offered burnt offering and peace offerings and sat down before the image to revel and eat and drink and sport.



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