Now there is a very interesting episode that took place in the life of Moses, recorded back here in Exodus 33 and 34. The context here is right after that horrible incident with the Golden Calf. That was a terrible mark on the Israelites' integrity before God. He was quite upset, and justly so, about what they had done, and He executed some punishments upon them.
In Exodus 33:1, God tells Israel to get up and go on - that He would send an angel; but He was not going to go with them. Well, this really shook Moses up, and Moses was really feeling down in the dumps regarding what had occurred. We are going to pick up the story here in verse 12.
