More on the Sabbath
- Exodus 31:12-18
- God is adamant about the Sabbath
- Severity of punishment for profaning
- Exodus 31:14
- Punishment: death and cutting off
- The same punishments or different?
- Tablets of stone
The first commandments violated
- Exodus 32:1-6
- The demands of the people
- Aaron’s acquiescence and demand
- Makes a calf of gold – Psalms 106:19; Romans 1:22-25
- Their declaration, Aaron’s proclamation
- Day of sacrifice and play
Why make a god?
- What motivated them?
- Loss of leadership?
- Loss of faith?
- Loss of direction?
- How could it have been avoided?
- What lessons does this give us today?
Fallout
- Exodus 32:7-24
- God’s conversation with Moses
- God’s anger
- Moses’ pleading
- Moses goes down from the mountain
- Encounters Joshua
- Tablets destroyed
- Calf elixir
- Aaron’s lie
Cleansing and blotting out
- Exodus 32:25-35
- Whoever is for the Lord
- Levi steps forward
- Punishment begins
- Moses calls for dedication
- Returns to the mountain
- Pleads to God for their forgiveness
- Blotting out from His Book
- The people smitten
Time to leave
- Exodus 33:1-6
- God repeats His promise
- Sending an angel before them
- Drive out the occupants
- He will no longer be in their midst
- Moses told the Israelites, they mourned
- The ornaments
Moving the tent of meeting
- Exodus 33:7-11
- Tent of meeting
- Now pitched well outside the camp
- God would not be among the people
- People would watch
- Moses went, entered, and pillar descended upon it
- People would then worship, but at own tent
- God would talk with Moses “as a man speaks to his friend”
- Joshua – loyal and watchful servant
What Moses wants
- Exodus 33:12-23
- Favor in God’s sight
- Already had it (Exodus 33:12)
- Now he wants it (Exodus 33:13)
- God’s presence
- It shows they’ve found favor in His sight (Exodus 33:16)
- God shows Moses graciousness and compassion
- To see God’s glory