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Exodus 32:1-6
Excerpted from: Numbers: The Book of JudgmentThe second thing was idolatry and this is the only one of the five that was not taken from Numbers. It is taken from Exodus 32:1-6. We all know that idolatry is putting something before the true God and serving it. Now, what is so interesting about that case there, that event recorded in Exodus 32, is the reason they gave for doing what they did. It is so interesting to you and me. "We know not what has happened to this Moses." Can you think of the New Testament parallel to that? I will tell you what it is, "My lord delays His coming." So what did the people do? They sat down to eat and then they rose up to play. In neither case was it a good thing.
You see, again their reasoning reflects a lack of faith. They had an "out of sight, out of mind" approach that justified to them the reason for serving a god that was inferior even to themselves! I mean they were worshipping a stupid, dumb piece of gold and wood. They did not even make an idol of a human being, did not even make an idol or a god of a living leader. You think there would be more excuse or more justification for something like that. And then to have Aaron say, "Well, I just threw the gold into the fire and this is what came out."
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