Exodus 32:7 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 32:7

5 So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a ^aproclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.”

6 Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people ^asat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

7 And the Lord said to Moses, ^a“Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt ^bhave corrupted themselves.

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^aI commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ^b‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

9 And the Lord said to Moses, ^a“I have seen this people, and indeed it is a¹ stiff-necked people!

10 Now therefore, ^alet Me alone, that ^bMy wrath may burn hot against them and I may¹ consume them. And ^cI will make of you a great nation.”

11 ^aThen Moses pleaded with¹ the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 ^aWhy should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and ^brelent from this harm to Your people.

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God does not lie. And no doubt, He would have done what He said, but the point is that He was looking for something else. Moses, as he was being prepared, became an intercessor. He put forth before God what His promises were; he knew them well. And he knew that he did not want to do anything that would bring shame upon God before the world.

Moses was prepared to do a work that from this point forward. As you read above, God said, “For your people whom you brought out.” From this point forward, Moses the one who commanded them. He led them. God gave him the power to do it. He prepared him for this great task. And this was part of the preparation. Moses selflessly turned away from himself—he could have become a great nation. This is an incredible thing to think about.

Excerpted from Go Forward

Exodus 32:7-10

God was not faking His anger. To say He was mad is, I think, to underestimate the intensity of His anger. I think He meant exactly what He said. God does not mislead people and fake something. He was upset by what these people had done. This occurred pretty early in their journey, and it is important because it shows the concept of the nature of God that the Israelites brought with them out of Egypt. To them, God's nature—His very being—was conceived to be something no greater than an uncomprehending, non-communicating beast that had nothing in common with them, except that it was a mammal, and that it was alive.

Excerpted from The Nature of God: Elohim

Exodus 32:7-10

These people were undoubtedly sincere. I do not think we can question that. But God did not like their sincerity one bit. Do you know why? Because God saw this as an attempt by these people to control Him through a human redefining of His nature.

Excerpted from Passover and I Corinthians 10

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