And I need a savior. And the good news is that Jesus is a savior who forgives our sin, washes us clean of our sin. There's also a savior who heals. And Jesus can do what no one else can. Jesus can heal the soul. He can give you a new spirit. He can give peace to a troubled mind. And rest to a weary soul. Like Aaron. We love to blame everyone else for our issues and when we do when we refuse to take ownership of our own sin.
We give up the opportunity to be forgiven and we give up the opportunity to be healed of our sin. So if you're Aaron right now. Let me encourage you to stop giving other people power over your life. Give Jesus power over your life, you'll be astounded by what he can, do. You will be astounded by what he can restore, even if you feel like you're starting 10 laps behind everybody else, you will be astounded what God can still do in your life.
Verse 8 /24. And I said to them, whoever has any gold, let them break it off, so they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire and the scarf came out. We talked about the foolishness of that last week.
Now, when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained for Aaron had not restrained them to their shame among their enemies in the Septuagint, the word scattered or unrestrained sorry, the words scattered is used instead of the word unrestrained or even naked. As some of your Bibles will say, the idea is that children are misbehaving and then mom or dad walks in the room. Moses arrived back at the camp and suddenly, instead of naked revelry, they were all frantically grabbing something to cover themselves up and scurrying back to their tents in shame.
And however it happened, word of all this reached the surrounding pagan communities who thought it was absolutely hilarious.
Instead of being the feared nation who had your way on their side, Israel was the laughingstock of the whole region, at least temporarily. Verse 8, 26, that Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said, whoever is on the Lord's side come to me, and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him and he said to them, thus says the Lord God of Israel, let every man put his sword on his side and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp and let every man kill his brother, every man, his companion, and every man his neighbor.
So the sons of Levi did, according to the word of Moses, and about 3000 men of the people fell that day. The Old Testament is packed with physical pictures.
Of spiritual truths, physical pictures of spiritual truths, you see, we read something like this and we think, oh, that's that's terrible.
But here's the sobering reality, it's justice. And I know that some of you are thinking, well, that doesn't seem like justice, Jeff, but what are we saying when we say that? What are we saying when we say that doesn't seem like justice? We're saying that we don't believe the punishment fits the crime, right? We're saying the punishment is disproportionate to the offense. What's the offense in this instance? It's rebelling against the God who miraculously freed you from slavery in Egypt.
It's going back on your promise to follow him that you made only a few weeks ago. It's spitting in the face of God whose very presence is visible in front of you at that moment in the form of the cloud upon Mt. Sinai.
That's the offense. This is God we're talking about. It's got. Sinning against man is in no way comparable to sinning against God. The God of all creation, your maker, your savior, sinning against God is deadly serious and we're seeing that pictured here physically in Exodus 32. I please hear me on this because I know this is still difficult for some of us to grasp, but if this seems harsh to you, then you have not yet grasped the seriousness of sin.
There's a parenting angle in here that really craps it cracks me up to get that out. OK. And there's a parenting angle in here that really cracks me up. It's like when somebody else is telling a parent about their child's poor behavior and the parent is like, well, you know, just don't be too harsh on them. I mean, remember, kids are going to be kids. They're going to do dumb stuff.
But then when that same parent actually catches their kid being a little jerk, their reaction becomes, I am going to murder you when we get home.
It's easy to be gracious and patient when you're not face to face with your child's own wickedness.
Right. That was Moses. When he's up there with the Lord, he's like, oh, Lord, don't let your Rathburn hot. But then when he saw what Israel was doing with his own eyes, we're told that Moses, his wrath burned hot and he was furious. I'm going to kill you guys. Verse 8 /21.
And Moses said to Aaron, what did these people do to you that you've brought so the greatest sin upon them? So Aaron said, do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know, the people that they're set on evil for, they said to me, make us gods that shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. Aaron's response is to blame, get this.
His response is to blame the culture. His environment. The people around him. You see, even today, thousands of years later. Our culture believes the most ridiculous thing. It believes that people are inherently good, and the only reason everybody isn't good.
The only reason anybody has any issues is that their parents weren't good, and their parents had issues. Their culture wasn't good, their community wasn't good. But if we could just get people to be raised in a good environment around good people, then people would be good.
What's the problem with that reasoning? Well, in the words of our brother, Paul, here's the problem. There's none righteous, no, not one, there is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God, they've all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is none that does good. No, not one. The only perfect parent is our heavenly father, the rest of us, no matter how hard we try, are going to pass on some junk to our kids.
We just are we're going to mess up and slip up in ways that are going to profoundly affect our children, no matter how hard we try not to.
Yes, how and where you're raised makes a huge difference in your life. Huge, I'm not debating that. I'm just saying it's not the only piece of the puzzle and it's not the only reason for our issues and problems.
And I'm saying that even if you had perfect parents and were raised in a perfect world.
You'd still send. You still said, how do I know, because Adam and Eve did. And when Jesus reigns on the Earth for a thousand years during the millennial kingdom, there will be generations who are born into a world where things are right and Jesus is king.
But at the end of those thousand years, a group of those people who were raised in that environment are still going to side with Satan for one final rebellion. Aaron says it was the people, it was the people. To be a Christian. To be a follower of Jesus and receive the gospel. Means that we have to to humbly raise our hands and say, it's me, it's me. At the end of the day, it's not my parents that are making me send.
It's not my community that's making me send. It's not my past trauma that's making me sick. The issue is that I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner and need a savior. And the beauty of the church is that even if you had the most awful childhood imaginable. If you look next to you. You'll see someone like me who had a wonderful upbringing, but I'll be raising my hand to. And I'm right next to you also saying my issue is that I'm a sinner.
And what is going on here was God really about to destroy Israel, did God change his mind because of Moses's appeal? No, not at all. Listen, the Lord knows the future, nothing, nothing takes them by surprise. Check out these verse is there on your outline. Malikai three six declares For I am the Lord, I do not change.
Therefore, you're not consumed. Oh, Sons of Jacob. So when God made those promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he knew what the future held.
Numbers 23, 19. God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. That means change his mind. He doesn't change his mind because he's not a person. He's not bound like a person is to not knowing the future, has he said. And will he not do or has he spoken and will he not make it good? So what's going on? Why does God do this and why is it in the Bible?
Well, our brother Paul tells us this also on your outlines, whatever things were written before.
In other words, all the Old Testament scriptures were written for our learning, for our learning, that we threw the patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
So the question is, what does the Lord want us to learn from this portion of scripture? And I suggest the answer is your first fill in. The answer is that we can petition the Lord.
That means we can make requests of the Lord, we can petition the Lord and intercede for others based on his promises.
We can bring our request to the Lord and we can pray to the Lord on the behalf of others on the basis of the promises of God. And when you take a step back and look at Moses conversation with the Lord, you can see that God is teaching Moses that he's a God who keeps his promises. He's teaching Moses that he can come before him on the basis of the promises he's made in the past. He's teaching Moses that he's a God who's faithful to his word.
And you can stand upon his promises as a sure foundation.
And I can tell you this, if you haven't learned this truth yet, God is working on teaching it to you right now. He's working in your life to prove to you that he's faithful and that he can be trusted.
It's one of the most foundational truths of the Christian life because it opens your eyes to the reality that God is a firm foundation. You can build your life upon him.
He's the rock of ages. Verse 8 15. And Moses turned and went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand, the tablets were written on both sides, on the one side and on the other, they were written.
Now, the tablets were the work of God and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets. These, of course, are the two tablets of the Ten Commandments written by the finger of God himself, verse 17.
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There's a noise of war in the camp. But he said, It's not the noise of the shout of victory, nor the noise of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing, I hear.
So it was as soon as he came near the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing, so Moses, his anger, became hot and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Then he took the calf, which they had made, burned it in the fire and ground it to powder. And he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
Moses comes down the mountain and he finds the children of Israel amid this massive pagan party engaged in pagan worship rituals that were really just an excuse for all kinds of perversion, worshiping the idol of a golden calf.
And Moses is, he's furious. He slams down the two tablets of the law, breaking them on the ground. Moses, his reaction, whether he realized it or not, was a prophetic act that showed what Israel had just done. They had broken the law of God in a catastrophic manner.
First 10 now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them, God says, step back, Moses, I'm about to lay the smack down on these stubborn, rebellious children. I don't know how you were raised, but in my childhood, this was the moment when my mom reached down and started taking off her flip flop, that was the moment that I always knew I'd push things a little bit too far and I was now going to pay for it.
I know today's younger people can't relate to that story at all because our culture is so soft right now.
If a parent did that in public today, someone would call the police who would then call child services. But when I was a kid, a parent could do that literally anywhere. And if another parent saw it, they just give a thumbs up, which was kind of code for nice job, not raising a total brat. And of course, the scariest thing about my mom's flip flop was that it was always with her. It was always with her.
She didn't always have a wooden spoon, but she always had a flip flop.
But I digress. The point is, this is the moment God starts taking off his flip flop and says, stand back, Moses.
There's another truth on display here, and we mentioned it last week, we cannot worship the true and living God based upon our personal preferences.
God is to be worshiped according to his preferences and his commands. God didn't look at Israel and say, well, I mean, they're kind of still worshiping me. God's reaction here shows us that when we reject God's commands and worship him, however we choose, it's not actually him we're worshiping, it's ourselves. We're worshiping ourselves and our preferences. For us, this means that we can't read something in God's word and say, I don't really like that part, so I'm not going to make that part of my expression of Christianity.
We can't say I love Jesus, don't really like the church, though.
The church is kind of messed up. So I'm going to leave that part out of my faith. We can't say, well, you know, I I love Jesus, but I don't buy what the Bible says about sexuality and s*xual purity.
And so I've created a version of Christianity where, you know, doing those things that the Bible says I shouldn't is actually, in a way, part of my expression of worship.
Can't do that. God looked down on Israel and said, I don't care that they're referring to the idol as yours.
It's not me. It's not me they're worshiping. First, then again, God said now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. That just means destroy them. And I will make of you, Moses, a great nation. This is a big deal. God is saying, Moses, I'm done with Israel, I am done. Let me just wipe them out and then we'll just start this whole Israel project again with you, and I'll do it all through you and your descendants.
Then Moses pleaded with the Lord is God and said, Lord, why is your wrath burned hot against your people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Do you see what Moses just did there? He played the reverse card and gave Israel right back to God, my people, you mean your people, Lord, whom you brought out of Egypt.
They're your kids to Verse 8 12.
Why 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 relent from this harm to your people.
Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by your own self and said to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and all the land that I have spoken of, I give to your descendants and they shall inherit it forever. So the Lord relented from the harm which he said he would do to his people.
After looking at Aaron and his role in the golden calf incident in our previous study, we now shift our focus to Moses. Is it really true that in this chapter, Moses is able to convince God to change His mind? What's really going on? And what can we learn fo
Last week, we looked at Aaron's failure in Exodus Chapter 32, a catastrophic failure of leadership, which we learned was driven by the fear of man, if you missed our last message, make sure you go check it out on the website for the next couple of weeks.
We're going to take a look at Moses. We're going to look at Exodus 32 again today and then Exodus 33 next week and focus on Moses and his interactions with God after Israel was caught in the act of worshiping an idol of a golden calf with a feast and all kinds of wicked pagan religious rituals. You'll recall the scene from last week. Moses is up on Mount Sinai meeting with God. It's been almost six weeks since anybody last saw him, and nobody knows when or if he's going to return.
The Israelites start panicking and decide that what they really need is a God who is among them, a God that they can worship and sacrifice to like the pagan cultures around them do like they did back when they were slaves in Egypt.
So let's jump into the text in Exodus 32 at verse one again, we'll read straight through the verses that we covered in detail last week. And then we'll stop along the way and look more closely at all the other verses in this chapter.
It says now, when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to air and said to him, Come make us gods that shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. And Aaron said to them, break off the golden earrings which are in your ears and the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters and bring them to me.
So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and he fashioned it with an engraving tool and made a molded calf. Then they said, this is your God of Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt. So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it and Aaron made a proclamation and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.
Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. And the Lord said to Moses, Go get down for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. Dads of sons especially. You're familiar with this kind of language. Your kids are acting like buffoons and your wife smacks you when she says, look what your children are doing verse 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way, which I commanded them.
Your wicked people have gone back to paganism, Moses.
Yes.
Already they've made themselves a molded calf and worshiped it and sacrificed to it and have said, this is your God o Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And the Lord said to Moses, I've seen this people. And indeed it is a stiff necked people. Stiff necked is a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn. God says there are stubborn people, Moses. They're slow to change. They're slow to trust me. They cling to their pagan ways even after all that I've done for them.
First 10 now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them, God says, step back, Moses, I'm about to lay the smack down on these stubborn, rebellious children. I don't know how you were raised, but in my childhood, this was the moment when my mom reached down and started taking off her flip flop, that was the moment that I always knew I'd push things a little bit too far.
We see ominous signs all around us. There is rebellion against God’s created order. Those who identify with Christianity and conservative issues are demonized. What will a God-hating government impose on the people of God? Their rage seems to know no limits or restraints. It is fiendish and devilish. This is the time to call on God, that He may rip open the heavens and make His presence felt on earth in a most dramatic way.
The world will pass away but you will stand before God and give account. For it is written in His Word that we will each stand before God and give account.”
The saints of God have always coveted God’s presence. David said, “in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:11). Moses, for example, knew the necessity of the presence of God and said, “If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence” (Exod. 33:15). Sometimes the Lord’s presence is somewhat hidden. We may look for it and even strain for it. “And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12). God made His presence known by a whisper—inaudible above the din and confusion of the times, but very real, nevertheless, for those who will listen carefully.
God’s presence will bring success in any endeavor. This is especially evident in the Great Commission. Jesus gave an encouraging promise to His disciples and said, “I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” (Matt. 28:20). The Commission was challenging. The disciples really did not know the full extent of the Great Commission. They did know the expanse of our Lord’s words to them. But in the first couple of centuries, when one’s view of the world was limited, and into the twenty-first century, when we can see Planet Earth from outer space, the words “I am with you alway” give comfort and strength.
When Jesus told His disciples about His continuing presence He did not promise that He would be with them in the same way that He was during His earthly ministry. Jesus said He was going away and that He would come again at some future time to “receive you unto myself” (John 14:3). In John 14:26, Jesus explained the Source of His disciples’ power in the present age: “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
The Holy Spirit would bring power to God’s servants, and conviction to those who heard the Word of God. From a small and unassuming beginning, the people of God would bring the Good News to every part of the planet.
The Lord Jesus Christ, however, did not promise ease and safety during this age. We read of the martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7) and of the challenges the Apostle Paul faced (2 Cor. 11:16–33). When Paul was in Troas he received an invitation from the Lord to go into Macedonia. In Acts 16:10 we read, “And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.” The Lord was present in the sense that the Lord blessed Paul’s witness to Lydia, as the Lord opened her heart (Acts 16:14).
An Awakening to Confront the Catechism of Revolution We are living in a day of intense spiritual conflict fueled by a revolution against all that is good and holy. No one can deny that. The stakes are high. The enemy is dangerous, but as we have said at the opening of our broadcasts for almost nine decades, “God is still on the throne and prayer changes things.”
Prayer warriors do more than pray, however. They are the faithful remnant who willingly count the cost of faithfulness. Jesus did not die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. During times of danger, uncertainty, and challenge the issue becomes one of God’s presence—His consuming presence. “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down…to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!” (Isa. 64:1–2). God has many names, yet here it is singular – “thy name.” The singular is intensive, the sum of the glorious attributes of Almigty God. Are you that faithful remnant whom God will use in these last days?
The Consuming Presence Larry Spargimino April 29, 2021 “… that the nations may tremble at thy presence!” —Isaiah 64:2
The Second Article of the 1973 Humanist Manifesto revealed its position on the Christian faith with unabashed clarity: “Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful. They distract humans from present concerns, from self-actualization, and from rectifying social injustices. … There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body.”
Since those words were written, our country, and our world, have seen a steady erosion of biblical values. The election of Joe Biden as President of the United States—though some say, quite convincingly, by fraud—is a testimony to the lateness of the hour. Joe Biden has signed a record number of Executive Orders, a reflection of the Democrat Party’s intractable desire to remove all the moral advances of the Trump Administration. This statement in no way should be taken as indicating that I give wholehearted assent to everything that you can think of about Donald Trump’s personality and character, any more than I would give wholehearted assent to everything written in sacred Scripture about King David’s personality and character. Trump’s core values and platform, however, resonate with Christians.
God’s Consuming Presence And His Prophets In every age, and at every time, God raises voices that speak out with moral clarity and a powerful anointing that challenges and addresses the moral freefall of the culture. In his 2017 book, God’s Prophetic Voices to America, Dr. David Reagan mentions several, such as David Wilkerson, Francis Schaeffer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Erwin Lutzer, and Jonathan Cahn, among others.
These men of God come from a variety of backgrounds, but all traced our problems to rebellion against God and His order. Schaeffer wrote A Christian Manifesto, which was a direct response to the Communist Manifesto of 1848, the Humanist Manifesto I of 1933, and the Humanist Manifesto II of 1973—all of which made man the final arbiter of right and wrong, good and evil.
Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident who gave a rousing speech at Harvard in June of 1978, arrived at campus a hero, but outraged the intelligentsia because he was considered “an orthodox Christian ayatollah.” He chided the Western world, including America, for losing its courage in confronting evil and said our foreign policies were based on “weakness and cowardice.” And then he caustically added, “Should one point out that from ancient times, declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end?”
Five years later, in May of 1983, when he received the Templeton Prize, he gave an address titled “Godlessness: The First Step Toward the Gulag.” Solzhenitsyn reminisced about his childhood and said, “More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
A Warning To America—Past and Present In a 13-minute on-camera video released on social media, messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn shared a prophetic warning. He began his presentation by citing George Washington’s prophetic warning to America that he gave during his very first presidential address to the nation: “The propitious smiles of heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right that heaven itself has ordained.”
Cahn reminded Americans that we have done what we were warned not to do , but still so many are confused about why the blessings of Heaven are being removed from our land, leaving us to face violence, division, and godless leadership. Cahn then addressed President Biden: “This day will pass. The applause of men will fade. This administration will inevitably be over.
Our goal is not to love people as people love. Our goal is to love people as Jesus loves. Our goal is to love as Jesus loves. Doing what is best, wanting what is best for people. And you cannot do that when you are ruled by the fear of man. You'll end up doing foolish things and claiming that you were just trying to do the right thing. But you weren't you were trying to gain man's approval rather than God's.
You were being like air and saying, well, Heidi, the end justifies the means, I mean, people are still worshiping God in some way, right?
The ends don't justify the means. Hold to the truth, don't be ruled by the fear of man love people as Jesus loves people. So what do we say in conclusion? The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. Is your life ruled by the fear of the Lord that brings wisdom and freedom? Or is your life ruled by the fear of man that is a trap and leads to compromise with sin and stops you loving others well and blinds you to the truth and leads to foolishness?
Is your life ruled by the desire for the approval of your heavenly father, which she gives freely through his son Jesus, or is your life ruled by the desire for the approval of the world, which leaves you feeling anxious, insecure and afraid? The fear of man brings a snare. But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. So, Lord, help us to be concerned with pleasing you. Rather than pleasing the world or ourselves, let's pray with you, bow your head and close your eyes.
Father, thank you for the wisdom of your word and thank you for the path that you lay out in your word to freedom, to wholeness. To the truth, to the light. And father, we do not want to be a people whose lives are ruled by the fear of man, so we ask right now in the name of Jesus that your spirit would just illuminate in our lives any ways in which we may be ruled by the fear of man right now.
Father, bring to mind even relationships that are being ruled by the fear of man and help us to love people as you love people wanting what is best, doing what is best for them, regardless of the cost to us. We want to love the way that you love Florida. We want to please you rather than pleasing people. So, Father, help us to do that, Holy Spirit, speak to us if we've tuned out your voice, we ask that you would be gracious and allow us to hear it again with clarity.
Right now, we love you, Jesus. And we're so thankful that you have brought us from the darkness into the light. So help us to walk in the light. Jesus, we love you. It's in your precious name. We pray. Amen.
I hear foolishness, like if your church closed tomorrow, would your community mourn their loss, if not, you're doing something wrong, because if you're being like Jesus, then your community will love you.
Now, hang with me if I've got you on edge right now, because I got you right where I want you to be, because there's a few things we need to remember. Everybody didn't feel loved by Jesus after three years of ministry. The overwhelming majority of people hated Jesus and they cried out crucify him. And he was crucified. Even after the resurrection. In Acts Chapter two. How many people are there in the upper room waiting for the Holy Spirit?
One hundred and twenty. After the resurrection, that's how many people were in. One hundred and twenty, so no. Not everybody felt loved by Jesus. Do we really think that we're more gracious, more loving and more winsome? Then Jesus. John the apostle actually tells us why most people did not love Jesus. John said this is the condemnation, that the light that's Jesus has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
For everyone, practicing evil, hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. Most people hated Jesus and his message because they loved their sin. They preferred the darkness. That's what the Bible says, or how about these words of Jesus to his disciples when Jesus said, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
The idea that the Church of Jesus is designed to grow by being likable. Is completely unbiblical, is completely unbiblical, now hear me on this, we don't do good deeds to try and get people to like us, OK, as though we're living for their approval. Good deeds are the natural fruit of a life that is abiding in Jesus, and we do charitable deeds because Jesus loves and values people.
Therefore, we love and value people because we want to share the values of Jesus. Now, don't miss this. Don't miss this. That means Christians seek to love people in a way that God approves of, not in a way that people approve of. Let me say that again, so that you get it, Christian's real Christians seek to love people in a way that God approves of in a way that blesses God, not in a way that people approve of.
And when those things line up, listen, when God is blessed and the person feels love to hey, that's wonderful. Praise God for that. But if God is blessed. And God approves. But the person rejects our love. Because they're rejecting Jesus and they love their sin, that doesn't mean that we're doing anything wrong as the church, it means we're experiencing the same rejection that Jesus experienced.
Our prayer, our hope and our goal is to love people like Jesus loves people. Our goal is to love people like Jesus loves people.
If people don't feel loved by us, then we want to ask the question, is this because I'm just being a jerk? Or is this because I'm loving them like Jesus loves them, but they prefer the darkness right now. Guess what?
Newsflash, everybody everybody likes people who are nice to them, give them attention, give them free stuff and affirm their life choices, everybody loves someone who does that and we are delusional if we do those things and then convince ourselves that we're making disciples were delusional because guess what?
If a Muslim does those same things, the person will be attracted to Islam. If a Jehovah's Witness does those things, the person will become a J.W. Probably. If a cult does those things, people join the cult. Our goal is not to get people into the kingdom of God. By simply trying to get them to like us, that's not our goal or goal is to love them the way Jesus loves them. Share the truth with them and have them respond to Jesus.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes self that you may see. The fear of man will surround you with other people whose lives are ruled by the fear of man, and you'll be drawn into this worldly system of reciprocation where you and the world just go back and forth lying to each other, that you're doing great, that life is wonderful.
You're happy even though in reality. You're miserable. You're insecure. And your life is empty, empty, or as Jesus would say, you say I am rich, have become wealthy and have need of nothing. And do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Jesus says the solution is to stop buying what the world is selling, come to him instead. That you may see. The truth is, like poetry, most people hate poetry, and most people are ruled by the fear of man.
And in the age we're living in, those who hate the truth are getting together with leaders who are ruled by the fear of man.
And they're creating churches that are ruled by the culture rather than by the Lord Jesus. The real church. The church ruled by Jesus, is made up of people who love the truth, know the truth.
Are ready to die for the truth. And have been set free from fear by the truth. And if you haven't made up your mind which one you want to be a part of. The church that craves the approval of the culture or the church that craves the approval of Jesus, you need to decide now. You need to decide now, because time is that short. You can be set free by the truth and hated by the world. Or you can blind yourself to the truth and be ruled by fear and be loved by the world.
But you cannot have it both ways. Jesus was the most wonderful, loving and free man who ever lived. And the world hated him, hated him. The Bible says that a savior is going to show up who the world will love and accept and worship. Small detail, the Bible also says he'll be the Antichrist. Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Christians don't need to fear a council culture, Satan, Satan's been trying to cancel Christianity since 33 A.D. The church was born in a culture trying to cancel it.
The church was founded by a savior who the world tried to cancel. And the gospel was spread by men and women who were martyred for their faith because their lives were not ruled by the fear of man.
Jump down to verse 21, where Moses confronts Aaron after coming down from Mount Sinai, it says, and Moses said to Aaron, what did this people do to you that you have brought so greatest sin upon them? So Aaron said, do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know, the people that they are set on evil for, they said to me, make us gods that shall go before us. As for this Moses, the one who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
And I said to them, whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire and then underlined this.
And this calf came out. I just threw the gold in the fire. Moses and then, oh, this is Golden Calf came on.
I don't know what happened to state the obvious here. The fear of man leads to foolishness, the fear of man leads to foolishness, Aaron was acting like a fool, expecting that Moses would actually believe this excuse.
You know what, I see a lot of foolishness in the Western church today as a result of the fear of man infringing on the church.
You see, I hear foolishness.
Like if people don't think of you and your church is loving, then you must be doing something wrong because everybody felt loved by Jesus and everybody loved being around Jesus.
So God says, listen, this is how you can see the judgment of God on wickedness on the Earth. This is one way you can see it right now, that that God has revealed himself through creation to everyone.
And people intrinsically know that there's no way this is all just accident or coincidence, they know there has to be a designer, but men willingly reject it because they want to reject God. They want to reject God. They don't want to deal with the implications of God being real and then having to answer to God. So they convince themselves they put that condition upstream from the truth and they convinced themselves that there is no God. And the judgment of God is that God actually allows them to believe that he allows them to believe that.
And so these men walk around thinking themselves wise, telling one another how wise they are, and they become increasingly foolish as they become increasingly blind to the truth.
Write this down to the fear of man will prevent you from loving people, the fear of man will prevent you from loving people. We need to understand that truly loving people will not always result in them liking us. Truly loving people will not always result in them liking us, and our culture does not understand this concept.
True love wants what is best for the person, even if the person wants something else. True love cares about what is best for the person. Even at the cost of the relationship, true love will never trade the other person's affections. For the truth. In other words, true love will never say I know it's not what's best for them, I know it's going to lead to pain and hurt, but I really want them to like me. So I'm not going to bring that up and I'm going to support their decision.
That's not love. That is not love, that is selfishness, because that is caring more about yourself than them. That desire to be liked. Is the fear of man, and when you give into it, you cannot love people well, because loving people well means caring more about what is best for them than what is pleasant for you. The fear of man is always there, lurking in the background, waiting to make an entrance. Galatians, two, tells us that after years of leading the Jerusalem church, Peter had to be confronted by Paul because Peter was acting sinfully.
Out of a fear of man, his behavior was being driven by a desire for the approval of his fellow Jews and Paula to say, stop it, stop it.
Fear the Lord, don't fear, man, in the end times in which I believe we're living, much of the church is being torn apart by the fear of man and a spirit of compromise is leading people to believe they're worshiping God when they're really worshiping idols.
Paul warned his protege, Timothy, of this writing for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
In Revelation three, we find a description of the definitive End Times church, the church that will rise to prominence in the last days.
It's the Church of Theodosia, the church ruled by the fear of man, the church that rejects the truth of the Bible and the authority of Jesus, instead creating for themselves their own version of Christianity, their own version of Jesus that affirms the values of the culture.
And here's what Jesus says to that church, he says, I know your works, that you're neither cold nor hot. You're the temperature of the culture. I wish you were cold or hot, so then because you're lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth because you say I'm rich, have become wealthy and have made of nothing. And you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.
Compromise can lead all the way to denying Christ, because when we compromise, what we're doing is we're elevating our feelings above God's truth.
We take over the throne of our lives and we take on the role of judge the arbiter of truth, and when we get into the habit of denying what we know is true. Scary things can happen. In John 12, we read this about the Ministry of Jesus, nevertheless, even among the rulers, many believed in him. But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue, for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Jesus, God himself was on the earth in the flesh, standing right in front of these guys and many of them knew it. Did you hear that? They knew it. They knew the truth. They knew he was God, now I'm sure some of those men became believers after the resurrection. But here's what I also know. Most of them were part of the Sanhedrin that voted to condemn Jesus to death. Do you understand what I'm saying, they knowingly voted to kill.
God. The messiah, why, we're told why ultimately, ultimately, it was simply because they loved the praise of men. More than the praise of God. That's terrifying. That is terrifying. That's the trap of the fear of man taken all the way to its ultimate conclusion, where it will blind you to the truth of God.
Even when he's standing right in front of you. It's terrifying. Yet we tell ourselves, listen, a few little compromises aren't going to get out of hand. I'm sure that's what Aaron told himself. A few more observations on the fear of man. Write this down, the fear of man will blind you to the truth. The fear of man will blind you to the truth, the search for truth requires one thing above all else, and it's real simple.
A desire to know the truth. And while that might sound obvious, it's far from it because we put things upstream from the truth all the time, we want the truth.
As long as it confirms our preexisting beliefs, we want the truth. As long as it's politically correct, we want the truth. As long as it doesn't interfere with us doing what we want and living as we please. As soon as you place conditions on the truth. You are no longer searching for the truth. Let me say it again as soon as you place conditions on the truth. You are no longer searching for the truth. On the contrary, you are willingly concealing the truth from yourself.
Our culture places all kinds of conditions on the truth. So logically, if we're living for our cultures' approval. We will inevitably blind ourselves to the truth, inevitably, because the truth does not care what anybody thinks. It just is the truth remains the truth, regardless of what anybody thinks, regardless of whether anybody approves.
The truth is the truth, but it cannot be grasped by those who are ruled by the fear of man, because the fear of man demands you trade truth for acceptance.
Our brother Paul describes how this happens in Romans one, verse is 18 to 23.
He says the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all on godliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them for since the creation of the world.
His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made even in his eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse, because although they knew God, they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened, professing to be wise. They became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four footed animals like golden calves and creeping things.
It's dealing with the fear of man when our likes are on the line. That was good, right? I know my kids are going to be groaning when we watch this together, so let me say it again.
The challenge for many of us is not dealing with the fear of man when our lives are on the line. It's dealing with the fear of man when our likes are on the line.
Now, here's what I mean. When this situation started, Aaron was just trying to save his own skin. But now he's going further than that.
He's got a positive reaction from the people and his approval rating just shot through the roof.
And now he wants to ride that wave of adulation. And so he calls for a feast because, hey, everyone loves the pagan party. It's not dying for God. That's hard. It's living for God. That's hard. Aaron didn't have to throw this feast, and where you and I most likely struggle with the fear of man is not when it's life and death, but when the issue is people liking us or not liking us. Right. Write this down.
The fear of man isn't just about what you fear most. It's about whose approval you desire most. The fear of man isn't just about what you fear most. It's about whose approval you desire most. And when your life is ruled by the fear of man, you will base your behavior on the opinion of the crowd, the opinion of the culture, the opinion of society. Bill Clinton's final years in the White House were infamously defined by his policy decisions being based exclusively on surveys of public opinion, whatever the majority wanted.
That's what his decision would be, because his goal, through his final few years in office, was simply to leave office with as many people liking him as possible. That's the fear of man. So when you have no convictions of your own, it's knowing the truth, but trading it for a lie. If it means that the lie will gain you the approval of those around you, that's the fear of man.
Let me tell you something obvious about the fear of man. Unless you were born with a mental health issue like sociopathy or psychopathy, we already have it, we already have the fear of man. It comes to all of us naturally, because we all want people to like us. Right. And my wife is like, do you, Jeff? Sometimes I wonder. But yes, we all want people to like us. None of us wants to be the one out of 10 dentists who doesn't recommend Colgate shout out to that guy.
Clearly a man of principle and conviction. We all have a natural desire to fit in because fitting in increases your chances of being liked. It's human nature, and that's how the trap works. That's how the fear of man is a snare. It taps into our desire to be liked and then offers us that in exchange for compromising with sin. That's the trap of the fear of man. And you might think, Jeff, listen, what's the big deal?
So I tell a few white lies about what I believe. So I go along with a few things I shouldn't. So I don't speak up when I know I should so that I can get along with everybody else. God understands the pressure I'm under. God wants me to get along with everybody else.
So what's the big deal? The fear of man is a snare. It's a trap. You step in it by compromising with sin and then the trap gets tighter because write this down, compromising with sin is addictive, compromising with sin is addictive. And I say this from experience in my own life and from observing the lives of others. Compromising with sin is addictive. It's almost never a one time thing. And it gets easier the more you do it.
Second time is easier than the first time, third is easier than the second. And before you know it, it's not difficult at all.
Compromise can lead all the way to denying Christ, because when we compromise, what we're doing is we're elevating our feelings above God's truth.
But Erin compromises by telling himself, well, this isn't a new God, a false God, I'm just going to make a physical representation of your way so that the people can be reassured that Yahweh is in their midst. Everyone will still be worshiping Yahweh.
So not really that big of a deal. We know that Aaron was thinking something along these lines because of what we read next, then they the Israelites said now get this, this is your God o Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt. Erin has communicated clearly to Israel that this golden calf he's made is your way. He's claiming that it is the physical manifestation of God, the one who brought them out of Egypt, Aaron, lost sight of this truth.
God is the one who determines how he is to be worshiped. God is the one who determines how he is to be worshiped. We don't get to do whatever we want and then claim that it's an act of worship to God because it's our expression. If we want to worship God, we need to worship him as he desires to be worshiped.
Because if we don't, our worship will not be accepted by him.
We don't get to sleep at home through the church service and say, listen, I was practicing sacred restoration until the Lord, we don't get to make idols pump up the volume, take off all our clothes and say, well, this is my expression of worship to the Lord.
It's how I worship him. When we worship really get this, when we worship according only to our own preferences. The reality is that we're not worshiping God, we're worshiping ourselves, we're honoring ourselves, we're rejoicing in and blessing ourselves, not the Lord. Make a note of this, it's your first fill in. The fear of man leads to compromising with sin, the fear of man leads to compromising with sin first. Samuel tells us it was the reason that Saul, Israel's first king and celebrity, fell into sin at the moment of his spiritual downfall.
Saul himself confessed, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, speaking to Samuel the Prophet.
And here's what he says. Saul says, Because I feared the people and obeyed their voice, not the Lord's.
Take a look at verse five again, so when Aaron saw it, so when Aaron sees all the people, the Israelites loving this golden calf, loving what he's made for them, so when Aaron saw it, they wanted to kill him earlier that day, but now they love him.
And there are notices this. It says he built an altar before it. He built an altar in front of the golden calf. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.
And here we see it again. Aaron is communicating to the people that the golden calf is yours, that it is the Lord. There wasn't any feast scheduled in God's law.
This was just something that Aaron made up on the spot. If you're a follower of Jesus, then you're probably good and you should be with dying for Jesus, that's probably a settled issue for you.
The challenge for many of us is not dealing with the fear of man when our lives are on the line.
It's dealing with the fear of man when our likes are on the line. That was good, right? I know my kids are going to be groaning when we watch this together, so let me say it again.
The challenge for many of us is not dealing with the fear of man when our lives are on the line. It's dealing with the fear of man when our likes are on the line.
Have you ever felt like God is not responding? And so you seek comfort in the ideals of your old life, the gods of Egypt. All this state of panic and fear and uncertainty is why we're told the people gathered together to Aaron and the original language actually says the people gathered together against Aaron. It was a hostile situation.
The people approached Aaron, and they were saying, hey, is de facto leader in Moses's absence. You need to do something now.
We need a God who we can see and touch so that we know that he's with us so that we can worship him and make sacrifices to him, so that he'll tell us what to do next and give us direction and God will do Aaron.
Erin's afraid. And this is where the trouble begins, because in this moment, Erin is more afraid of the people than he is of God. He's more afraid of the pressing situation that's right in front of him. Then he is of offending God. The Bible calls this the fear of man. And the Bible tells us it's the opposite of the fear of the Lord Proverbs 29 25, it's on your outline declares the fear of man brings a snare.
But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. Literally, whoever trusts in the Lord shall be set on high. The fear of man is a snare, it's a trap. In contrast, what does the words say about the fear of the Lord? It's the beginning of wisdom, the beginning of wisdom. Jeff, I mean, come on, there's a little bit unfair, Aaron's life is in danger. He's scared they're going to kill him, stone him to death or something like that.
Listen. That doesn't change what's right. And it doesn't change what is good. Pressing danger. Impending doom does not magically turn evil into good, a natural desire for self-preservation. Is not an excuse for wickedness. Our world thinks it is. It's the constant refrain we've heard throughout history from participants in atrocities, isn't it? I mean, I was just following orders. I would have been executed if I hadn't obeyed. Translation. I was terrified of the consequences of doing what I knew was right.
So I chose to do what I knew was evil. Following God means being willing to die for him if it comes to that. Because he's worthy of our trust and obedience, regardless of what's going on around us. Listen to me. God's worth does not change when the cost of worship increases, even if the cost is our lives. He's still worthy. He's still worthy. God's worth does not change when the cost of worship increases, he's still worthy.
Aaron finds himself ensnared by the fear of man. He knows that Iowa is the god of Israel and that worshiping some other deity would be disastrous. So he comes up with what is in his mind, a compromise.
Let me explain. Take a look at Verse 8 two again. And Aaron said to them, to the Israelites, break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters and bring them to me.
So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and he fashioned it with an engraving tool and made a molded calf. So Aaron gets a bunch of jewelry donated by the Israelites.
He melts it down and he fashions it into this idol of a golden calf, likely bearing the form of one of the gods that were popular in Egypt.
Erin knows that God has very recently commanded the Israelites specifically. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
But Erin compromises by telling himself, well, this isn't a new God, a false God, I'm just going to make a physical representation of your way so that the people can be reassured that Yahweh is in their midst. Everyone will still be worshiping Yahweh.
It's a shocking, shocking story because the Israelites saw the hand of God move miraculously in the plagues of Egypt, they experienced miraculous deliverance from generations of slavery. They walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. They saw and heard God at Mount Sinai. They responded to God's law just weeks earlier by saying, we'll do it, we'll follow your way faithfully.
They had seen, experienced and heard so much. And yet just a few weeks later, we find them worshiping an idol, using pagan expressions of worship that I cannot describe for you in detail because there may be little ears listening. The Israelites turn their backs on God more than talking through what happened. I want us to focus on how it happened specifically. We're going to take a look this week at Aaron.
And what in the world was behind his catastrophic failure of leadership? And by the time we're done, I think we're going to find that there's a lot more of us in this text than we might realize. And here's a spoiler for you when I say that I'm not talking about Moses.
So let's go back to the top again and take a look at verse one. It says, now, when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain. So you'll recall Moses has gone up on Mount Sinai with Joshua into the cloud of God's presence.
The people gathered together to Aaron and they said to him, come make us gods or literally make us a god that shall go before us for ask for this Moses. Now, can you sense the acrimony in what they're saying, the lack of honor? As for this, Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. If we add some context, it doesn't excuse what the Israelites did, but it does help us understand their mindset at this time.
The Bible tells us that Moses was up on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights.
That's almost six weeks. And understand this. When Moses left the camp of Israel, when he went up the mountain. He didn't say, see you guys in 40 days because Moses didn't have any idea how long he would be gone. He didn't know. He said, I'll see you when I see you. Now, what would you be thinking? When five weeks had passed and you were in the camp of Israel, what would you be thinking? I suggest you'd be thinking something like, guys, we got to entertain the possibility Moses is not coming back.
Perhaps Moses and Joshua fell and died. I mean, it's a mountain, perhaps a rock fell on top of them. Perhaps God took them up to heaven. Perhaps God killed them because they did something wrong. Who knows? But but I mean, at a certain point, guys, aren't we delusional if we just keep waiting?
And you realize your situation, you're in the middle of the wilderness with a few million people, you're surrounded by hostile cultures, you don't have an army, you're vulnerable, you don't know where you're going. You don't know when your food and water is going to run out. You don't know what to do next. Nobody does.
You're afraid you're on edge and so is everybody else. Things are tense and way isn't speaking. Moses isn't leading.
This is one of those places where we should see ourselves in the Israelites, their anxiety and fear is growing because God is taking much longer to reveal himself and give direction than they would like. Have you been there before? They start to panic and to reassure themselves they seek comfort in their old familiar pagan practices, the ways of the flesh. They want something like their old gods. There are old idols, something like the gods of Egypt. Have you been there?
Have you ever felt like God is not responding? And so you seek comfort in the ideals of your old life, the gods of Egypt. All this this state of panic and fear and uncertainty is why we're told the people gathered together to Aaron and the original language actually says the people gathered together against Aaron. It was a hostile situation.
The infamous "Golden Calf Incident" is shocking and puzzling. Perhaps strangest of all is the behavior of Aaron - a godly man who, seemingly out of the blue, leads the nation of Israel into idolatry. Why? Let's dive into the text and find out...
Today, we're going to be looking at a famous story of failure, there's no better way I can set it up than by simply diving right into the text of this incredible account from the Book of Exodus.
So let's read it through and then we'll go back through it and we'll break it down again. We're going to be an exodus, Chapter 32. We're going to pick it up in verse one. Now, when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron and said to him, come make us gods. That shall go before us for ask for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt.
We do not know what has become of him. And Aaron said to them, break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters and bring them to me.
So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and he fashioned it with an engraving tool and made a molded calf. Then they said, this is your God of Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt. So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it and Aaron made a proclamation and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings.
And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Now, when it says they rose up to play, we're not talking about, you know, just so you know. And the Lord said to Moses, go get down, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way, which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf and worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, this is your God o Israel that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Skip down now to verse nineteen.
So it was as soon as he that's Moses came near the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses, his anger, became hot and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire and ground it to powder. And he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it. And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
So Aaron said, do not let the anger of my Lord become hot. You know, the people that they are set on evil for, they said to me, make us gods that shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. And I said to them, whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire and this calf came out.
It's a shocking, shocking story because the Israelites saw the hand of God move miraculously in the plagues of Egypt, they experienced miraculous deliverance from generations of slavery. They walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. They saw and heard God at Mount Sinai. Not only that, but they responded to God's law just weeks earlier by saying, we'll do it, we'll follow your way faithfully.
Likewise, they had seen, experienced and heard so much. And yet just a few weeks later, we find them worshiping an idol, using pagan expressions of worship that I cannot describe for you in detail because there may be little ears listening. The Israelites turn their backs on God more than talking through what happened. I want us to focus on how it happened specifically. We're going to take a look this week at Aaron.
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436 acts of hostility against US churches documented in 2023 Hostility against churches in the United States appears to be on the rise, according to a recent Family Research Council report that identified 436 incidents against churches in 2023, more than double the amount reported by the group in 2022 and eight times the number identified in 2018.
Thousands gather to honor fallen Burnsville officers and fire medic All told, an estimated 10,300 people turned out to pay their respects to officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and 40-year-old fire medic Adam Finseth. Grace Church in Eden Prairie was at capacity 30 minutes before Wednesday’s memorial service for three fallen Burnsville first responders even began. The mega church had space for 7,600 attendees, plus room for an overflow crowd who watched via livestream at Prince of Peace Church in Burnsville …10,300 people turned out to pay their respects …
Rare First Temple clay seal unearthed in Jerusalem A rare and exciting archaeological find has been unearthed in Jerusalem, providing an extraordinary glimpse into the ancient past. During excavations carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Western Wall Plaza a few years ago, a small stamped clay seal was discovered dating back to the First Temple period around 2,700 years ago.
Mississippi River drought is officially over, but the situation remains fragile The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has officially declared an end to the severe drought that disrupted barge transportation along the Mississippi River system for more than a year. Draft restrictions on vessels have been lifted, and dredges no longer operate to maintain nine-foot navigation throughout the Mississippi River. About 589 million tons of cargo transit through more than 4,000 miles of the river’s navigable channels, according to the Corps.
Taylor Swift is engaging in satanic rituals in live shows, Christian artist claims: ‘Music is dangerous’ “I think when you’re looking at a lot of the artists out there, a lot of their stage shows are satanic rituals live in front of 20,000 people without them realizing and recognizing,” Lynch recently told Ireland’s Sunday World. “You’ll see a lot of hoods up and masks on and fire ceremonies. Even down to Taylor Swift — one of the biggest artists in the world — you watch one of her shows and she has two or three different demonic rituals to do with the pentagrams on the ground, to do with all sorts of stuff on her stage. … But to a lot of people it’s just art and that’s how people are seeing it, unfortunately.”
Trump wins Michigan GOP primary, bringing him one step closer to securing Republican nomination. With the Michigan win, Trump has claimed victory in every primary and caucus of the 2024 GOP presidential primary cycle.
Biggest storm of winter to bury part of Sierra Nevada with over 100 inches of snow A massive storm will unload a general 6-10 feet of snow and bring high winds in the Sierra Nevada through this weekend. The storm will not only close the major roads in the passes but may bury and isolate communities for an extended period, AccuWeather meteorologists warn.
Smokehouse Creek Fire rapidly grows to second-largest wildfire in history of Texas The Smokehouse Creek Fire started on February 26, 2024, in Hutchinson County, Texas, amidst adverse weather conditions, and has rapidly grown over the next 2 days to the second-largest wildfire in the state’s history. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a disaster in 60 counties in response to the wildfire, which has only been 3% contained.
Widespread flooding and landslides hit Italy, deadly avalanche in Alto Adige On February 28, 2024, parts of central and northern Italy were hit by heavy rains, causing widespread flooding and landslides. In Alto Adige, an avalanche in Racines di Dentro resulted in one fatality and two serious injuries. The severe weather led to the closure of roads, rail lines, and schools in affected regions, with evacuations ordered due to rising river levels and landslide risks.
Asteroid Hit by NASA Spacecraft Was Reshaped by the Collision, Study Finds In a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers examined this collision more closely. They found that rather than being a solid object, the asteroid, called Dimorphos, is more like a pile of rubble, weakly held together by gravity. And instead of just forming an impact crater, DART’s crash actually reshaped the asteroid. The collision ejected about 1 percent of Dimorphos’ mass into space,
IDF spokesman reveals more details about Gaza stampede: ‘We didn’t fire at humanitarian convoy, we secured it’ Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari unveils video of drone footage showing Gazans ambushing an aid truck carrying food and getting trampled to death during the looting; ‘Dozens of Gazans were killed and injured as a result of the stampede’ “As these vital humanitarian supplies made their way toward Gazans in need, thousands of Gazans ambushed the trucks, some began violently pushing and trampling other Gazans to death, looting the humanitarian supplies,”
Netanyahu: Pass haredi draft law compromise, otherwise election ends war Netanyahu said that he believed he could pass a draft law arrangement that would not tear the nation apart and would be supported by a majority in the Knesset. Such an arrangement could not be done with democratic compromise — complete agreement, he said, only exists in non-democratic countries.
Chair of Republicans in Israel: Obama folks run the White House, promote PA state On the shift in US support for Israel during the current war in Gaza, going from 100% support from President Joe Biden to pressures and demands, Zell says that “those of us who understand what’s going on with the Biden administration said very early on that Joe Biden and all of his strong support for Israel, that may have been his personal view. But the people that run Joe Biden, that is the Obama folks that run the White House and Obama himself in his basement near Washington or wherever he happens to be, have a different view about Israel. They were never friendly with Israel.”
‘Room 6 raided’: Sinwar leaves behind underground trail as IDF nears capture The IDF is closer than ever to locating Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar, who is currently moving between various hiding places in the Gaza Strip, according to Hebrew-language news reports. A senior Israeli military official told Walla News! that Sinwar had been surprised by the IDF’s ground invasion of the Strip, and hadn’t expected such a deep incursion into the coastal enclave. Since troops entered the Strip, Sinwar has been scrambling to evade capture, and is making errors due to his haste to avoid Israeli soldiers and intelligence forces.
Hamas has Israel ‘right where we want it,’ boasts October 7th mastermind The chief of Hamas operations in the Gaza Strip has reassured the terror group’s leadership abroad that the organization is winning the current war against Israel, despite massive losses since October 7th. Israel has killed more than 13,000 Gaza terrorists since the war began, a senior Israeli army spokesman said Thursday, including 450 killed in the past ten days.
Israel reminds US: Gaza war won’t end until Hamas defeated Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told his American counterpart in a call overnight Wednesday that the IDF will continue its mission in Gaza until Hamas is defeated and the hostages returned. “During his briefing, the minister reiterated the defense establishment’s determination to continue operating until the removal of this threat, the destruction of Hamas battalions, the elimination of Hamas leadership and return of hostages,”
Putin Warns Of Nuclear War If West Sends Troops To Fight In Ukraine Putin used the occasion of his much anticipated annual state of the nation address to directly warn NATO that sending Western troops to fight in Ukraine could result in nuclear war. He explained that allegations from Western officials saying Russia intends to attack Europe are “nonsense”—after on Monday French President Emmanuel Macron really escalated the rhetoric by telling a security forum in Paris that sending Western troops to Ukraine “cannot be ruled out”. Hunter Finally Admits Joe Biden Is “The Big Guy” Hunter Biden on Wednesday testified to Congress that his father, Joe, was indeed “the big guy” referenced in an email pertaining to a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy company that made the Biden family and friends millions of dollars.
‘Future of Judea & Samaria’: Former US envoy unveils sovereignty plan The (Oct 7th) attack proved longstanding Israeli fears that any independent Palestinian entity without overriding Israeli security control would become a staging ground for barbaric terrorism against the Jewish state. Yet for the international community, there has only been a singular proposal for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: dividing a tiny parcel of land, one smaller than New Jersey, into two separate states …
Techno censorship: When Corporations Serve As A Front For Government Censors Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. We must, therefore, be on our guard against extremists who urge us to adopt police state measures. Harry S. Truman, (August 8, 1950)
Biden Blasted After Claiming Crime Rate Has Fallen To 50-Year-Low Joe Biden was slammed online after claiming that the crime rate in the US has fallen to the lowest point its been in half a century. Respondents noted that Biden completely ignored a huge spike in violent crime in large, mostly Democrat run, cities.
DR PETER MCCULLOUGH SOUNDS THE ALARM – “STUNNING ACT OF SCIENTIFIC CENSORSHIP” For years, the medical establishment – with the help of big government, big media and big tech – have tried to bury concerns about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Now, facing an avalanche of evidence about how dangerous and ineffective these shots are, big pharma’s defenders are turning up efforts to censor there critics. publication integrity staffer Tim Kersjes has retracted a manuscript authored by epidemiologist M. Nathaniel Mead, MSc, after the paper drew global attention to the Springer Nature Cureus platform with record views/reads/downloads. The paper called for a halt in COVID-19 mass vaccination based on a valid evaluation of the evidence. It topped >330,000 views/reads/downloads in a month
Amir Tsarfati: Everyone In The World Is Desperate For A Ceasefire… Except Hamas And Israel As part of the preparation for the invasion of Rafah in southernmost Gaza, Head of Shin Bet Ronen Bar and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi visited Cairo. The Egyptian government has been concerned that military action in Rafah will push Palestinians into their country. In other words, the Egyptian Arabs want to make sure that none of the Palestinian Arabs cross the border. Why? Because they know the Palestinians and recognize that they bring trouble with them wherever they go.
Meta knew parents were monetizing photos of their children for p*dophile: bombshell reports Social-media giant Meta was aware that its subscription tools were being used to facilitate child s*xual exploitation but neglected to solve the issue, according to two recent explosive reports in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Secret documents reveal Trudeau government virologists had “clandestine relationship” with Chinese agents. Documents authored by Canada’s top intelligence service reveal the long-awaited explanation behind the abrupt departure of two virologists from Canada’s top biolaboratory.
California Seized Enough Fentanyl In 2023 To Kill Global Population ‘Twice Over’ Authorities in California seized enough lethal doses of fentanyl last year to kill the entire global population “nearly twice over,” according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. In a statement on Feb. 27, the Democrat governor said operations supported by the state’s National Guard, or CalGuard, led to the seizure of a record 62,224 pounds of fentanyl in the state and at ports of entry in 2023, marking a 1,066 percent increase since 2021.
Today Is A Good Day To DEI: In Huge Win For DeSantis, University Of Florida Fires All ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’ Staff Following a mandate by the Florida Board of Governors, the University of Florida has fired all DEI (diversity, equity & inclusion) staff, effective immediately. “To comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9..016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors,” reads a statement from Provost J. Scott Angle.
Transgender Space Force Colonel Says Using Pronouns In Emails Will Help Win Wars During a speech to the U.S. Air Force, transgender Space Force Col. Bree Fram demanded everyone use pronouns in their emails as a way to enhance “winning war fighting strategies.”
Google Gemini AI Creates Fake Book Reviews To Defend Google Google Gemini, the tech giant’s new AI chatbot aimed at competing with ChatGPT, generated a series of fabricated reviews—falsely attributing them to actual individuals—to undermine the credibility of Peter Hasson’s 2020 book on political biases within Google and other major tech firms.
Joe Biden’s green energy plan is a gift to China, experts warn, amid fears Beijing could plunder more than $100billion from US taxpayer under scheme designed to BOOST American manufacturing Beijing could plunder more than $ 100 billion from US taxpayer funding thanks to a ‘naïve’ plan by Joe Biden to boost the American renewable industry…Exclusive industry data shows China has already planted its flag on a dozen green energy projects that could benefit from uncapped tax credits. The scheme, which could cost the US taxpayer $ 1.2trillion overall, was designed to improve American competitiveness in sectors that China currently dominates, including solar and electric vehicles.
Exclusive: Canadians Protest Trudeau’s Proposal for State-Assisted Killing for Mental Illness In this culture of death, the roster of individuals deemed “killable” perpetually expands and will not halt until it is legalized as a “solution” for anyone confronting any ailment or challenge.
15 Catholics killed at Mass by Muslim jihadists in Burkina Faso Muslim jihadists killed 15 Catholics during Sunday Mass this past weekend in the persecution-fraught African nation of Burkina Faso.
Carbon removal is a very expensive product that no one needs Nearly 800 companies around the world are exploring a wide variety of methods for drawing planet-warming greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere and storing it away or putting it to use. A gigantic leap from the five startups that James Temple could have named in 2019. However, the industry is in trouble because carbon dioxide removal is “a very expensive product that no one needs” and no one seems eager to pay the “true cost” for the “waste management of invisible garbage.”
CVS, Walgreens to Begin Selling Abortion Drugs Ahead of SCOTUS Case CVS and Walgreens are set to begin selling abortion drugs “within a week,” ahead of a Supreme Court battle challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rollback of safety restrictions for mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.
Letitia James wants Colorado Supreme Court to force Christian baker to make cake celebrating Satanist’s sex change “Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery, refused to make a customer a cake when they found out it was to celebrate her transition,” James said. “This bakery has discriminated against LGBTQ+ people before, and I’m urging the Colorado Supreme Court to stop this transphobic discrimination.”
Comedian Katt Williams on Joe Rogan’s Podcast: Transgenderism Is Connected to Satanic Baphomet Cult Unless you have been living under a rock, the issue of Satanism among the elites – as well as in Hollywood and the Music Industry – isn’t anything new. But even the better informed of us couldn’t help but gasp in horror at the new revelations from Comedian Katt Williams in Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Austria: 17 Migrant Youths, Known to Police, Repeatedly Gang Rape and Blackmail 12-Year-Old Girl, Films Attacks Over Several Months All 17 suspects, all known to police, reportedly showed no remorse or guilt, have been released from police custody, and are now at large.
Google Blasted for Gemini AI ‘Erasing White People From History’ – Calls Arise for CEO Sundar Pichai to Be Replaced Google recently unveiled its new AI Chatbot Gemini, and it turned out to be a total dud – sending Alphabet stocks tumbling and raising concerns that the company may not be able to bypass the insane political bias shown by the new application to produce serious and competitive products.
Gene-edited mosquitos get released, now dengue fever rockets by 400% Dengue fever, carried by mosquitoes, is swamping the populations of Brazil and Peru, Argentina, Laos and causing major concerns in other parts of the world
CDC Downgrades COVID to Same Severity as the Flu… But Says You Must Keep Having Vaccines The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has downgraded the severity of the Chinese coronavirus to the same status as the flu, calling for a “unified approach” to treating such conditions
Covid vaccines cannot be ruled out as cause of cardiac deaths in young and middle-aged, MP says During a debate in the House of Commons on premature deaths due to heart and circulatory diseases, Philip Davies, Member of Parliament for Shipley, raised the “clear trend” of cardiac deaths in young and middle-aged adults in the UK. One theory, he said, is that these deaths are a result of the population-wide use of covid vaccines. But “we do not know if that is the cause or not because the data is not being released.”
Klaus Schwab: Your avatar will live after you die and your brains will be replicated with algorithms At a private World Economic Forum session in September 2022, Klaus Schwab told Global Shapers that their avatar will continue to live after they die and that their brains will be replicated through artificial intelligence. He told the Global Shapers this just months before WEF launched its version of the metaverse.
Germany: Parents of AfD Politician Targeted in Devastating Arson Attack by Government-Funded Antifa Terrorists Despite being targeted and falsely labeled as “extremists” by the German government and left-wing media, the AfD faces ongoing threats from left-wing groups like Antifa, which receive financial and political support from these very institutions.
2 Mar 2024 Published on: March 2, 2024 by RR10 A message to Netanyahu? Gantz to travel to Washington next week Benny Gantz, a member of the war cabinet, is set to fly to Washington next Sunday for a series of meetings, without coordinating with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, learned on Friday.
IDF official to lawmakers: No such thing as ‘settler violence’ Representatives of the Israel Defense Forces told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that “there is no such concept as settler violence” in Judea and Samaria. “There is nationalistic crime, but we are talking about a few incidents…We have great respect for the residents of Judea and Samaria. They are our brothers, and it is our job to ensure their safety,” the senior IDF officials told lawmakers during a closed-door meeting.
‘Nowhere in the Bible do you find the words West Bank,’ says Troy Miller, CEO of National Religious Broadcasters As part of his endeavor to support Israel in the public relations war against its enemies, the NRB, under his leadership, decided to endorse the historic “Biblical Heartland Resolution.” The resolution urges Christian media broadcasters to refrain from using the term ‘West Bank’ for the disputed territories, advocating instead for the biblical names ‘Judea and Samaria.’ “We started having this discussion with a number of organizations several months ago
Yes, Covid came from a lab. When will the mainstream media quit gaslighting us? The Wall Street Journal just breathlessly reported that the Covid virus was manufactured in a lab. It even hinted that the lab in question might have been — drumroll, please — the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of course, this is not news to anyone but those who still read the mainstream media.
Dangerous blizzard continues pounding California with feet of snow, 190 mph wind gust Feet of snow, 190 mph wind gusts, drivers stuck behind closed freeways, national parks and ski resorts shuttered, and even a tornado have already pummeled California during a days-long blizzard underway in the Sierra Nevada. And that was just on Friday.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI’s creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public.
Odds of volcanic eruption remains in Iceland Dozens of earthquakes shook the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland on Saturday morning as officials warned that the odds of a volcanic eruption had increased, but by Saturday evening, officials said the threat of an eruption had diminished.
Dangerous blizzard continues pounding California with feet of snow, 190 mph winds Feet of snow, 190-mph wind gusts, drivers stuck on closed freeways and even a tornado have already pummeled California during a days-long blizzard underway in the Sierra Nevada, and it is expected to continue for several more days.
Multiple States Prepare for Vaccines to Be Added to Food Supply: Doctor Warns About ‘Genetically Adulterated’ Food with No Long-Term Safety Data Legislators in Tennessee and Arizona appear to be preparing their states for the addition of vaccines to their food supply. Though they come from different states, the two bills were introduced only weeks apart. Neither of the bills prohibit vaccines from being added to food. Rather, they accept the addition as inevitable.
WEF Pushes Ban on Home-Grown Food to ‘Fight Climate Change’ The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on governments to ban the general public from growing their own food at home by arguing that they are causing “climate change.”
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Seattle is the least-religious large metro area in the US Americans have grown less religious over the past couple of decades, and attendance at religious services is down across the country. Of course, some parts of the country are a lot less religious than others. New survey data shows Seattle is one of those places. A clear majority of adults in the Seattle area — around 64% — never attend church or religious services, or go less than once a year. That pencils out to about 1.98 million people out of the total 3.1 million population aged 18 and older in the metro area,
1 million acres destroyed in ‘catastrophic’ wildfire The Smokehouse Creek fire in Hutchinson County, Texas, has become the largest wildfire in the state’s history, destroying over 1 million acres and resulting in the death of two individuals and thousands of livestock. In an update regarding the historic wildfire on Friday, the Texas A&M Forest Service announced, “The #SmokehouseCreekFire in Hutchinson County is an estimated 1,078,086 acres and 15% contained.
Democrat Sheriff Where Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Murder Vowed Not To Cooperate With ICE The elected Democrat sheriff of the Georgia county where illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra allegedly murdered nursing student Laken Riley campaigned in 2020 on not cooperating with immigration authorities on the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Germany Confirms Leaked Audio Of Its Top Generals Discussing Blowing Up The Crimean Bridge In a huge development and absolute smoking gun revelation, the government of Germany has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked audio recording file published by Russia’s state-backed RT. The leak was first published by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who described that she received it from Russian security officials.
Discharged Soldiers to Receive Significant Discount On Land Purchases, Netanyahu Announces IDF soldiers leaving the war can qualify for land to build a home at a significant discount, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday. During a press conferee on Thursday evening, the prime minister said “Our heroic fighters earned it by right. they defended the house and they will now receive land to build a house on…
Illegal immigrant allegedly murders toddler after being released despite ICE detainer An illegal immigrant has been arrested in connection with the murder of Jeremy Poou Caceres, 2, of Baltimore, Maryland. Caceres and his mother were at Langley Park when they were caught in the crossfire between two groups of individuals. A total of five arrests have been made in relation to the incident.
Hamas delegation meets with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister The Hamas delegation met with the Special Envoy of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, at the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, the terror organization stated on its Telegram channel. Hamas’s delegation included members of the political arm of the terror organization, including Mousa Abu Marzouk and Hossam Badran.
‘The ball is in Hamas’s court’ after Israel approved hostage deal – US official Israel has “basically agreed” to a hostage deal and a pause in fighting while the countries involved in negotiations are awaiting an answer from Hamas about whether they will accept the plan. Speaking on a conference call with reporters, the official said, “The Israelis have agreed to the terms of the deal.” He added, “If Hamas agrees to the terms and agrees to release the captives, a six-week ceasefire will begin immediately.”
‘Future of Judea & Samaria’: Former US envoy unveils sovereignty plan Former Ambassador David Friedman’s proposal “protects Israel’s security, respects biblical covenants and affords civil rights and human dignity to all.”
We should all remember one thing: Knowing the Antichrist’s mother’s maiden name isn’t the primary goal. Knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and having your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life should be your number-one priority. The jailer asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?” The answer was, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:30-31).
We should all remember one thing: Knowing the Antichrist’s mother’s maiden name isn’t the primary goal. Knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and having your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life should be your number-one priority. The jailer asked Paul, “What must I do to be saved?” The answer was, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:30-31). AMEN
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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And I need a savior. And the good news is that Jesus is a savior who forgives our sin, washes us clean of our sin. There's also a savior who heals. And Jesus can do what no one else can. Jesus can heal the soul. He can give you a new spirit. He can give peace to a troubled mind. And rest to a weary soul. Like Aaron. We love to blame everyone else for our issues and when we do when we refuse to take ownership of our own sin.We give up the opportunity to be forgiven and we give up the opportunity to be healed of our sin. So if you're Aaron right now. Let me encourage you to stop giving other people power over your life. Give Jesus power over your life, you'll be astounded by what he can, do. You will be astounded by what he can restore, even if you feel like you're starting 10 laps behind everybody else, you will be astounded what God can still do in your life.
Verse 8 /24. And I said to them, whoever has any gold, let them break it off, so they gave it to me and I cast it into the fire and the scarf came out. We talked about the foolishness of that last week.
Now, when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained for Aaron had not restrained them to their shame among their enemies in the Septuagint, the word scattered or unrestrained sorry, the words scattered is used instead of the word unrestrained or even naked. As some of your Bibles will say, the idea is that children are misbehaving and then mom or dad walks in the room. Moses arrived back at the camp and suddenly, instead of naked revelry, they were all frantically grabbing something to cover themselves up and scurrying back to their tents in shame.
And however it happened, word of all this reached the surrounding pagan communities who thought it was absolutely hilarious.
Instead of being the feared nation who had your way on their side, Israel was the laughingstock of the whole region, at least temporarily. Verse 8, 26, that Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said, whoever is on the Lord's side come to me, and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him and he said to them, thus says the Lord God of Israel, let every man put his sword on his side and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp and let every man kill his brother, every man, his companion, and every man his neighbor.
So the sons of Levi did, according to the word of Moses, and about 3000 men of the people fell that day. The Old Testament is packed with physical pictures.
Of spiritual truths, physical pictures of spiritual truths, you see, we read something like this and we think, oh, that's that's terrible.
But here's the sobering reality, it's justice. And I know that some of you are thinking, well, that doesn't seem like justice, Jeff, but what are we saying when we say that? What are we saying when we say that doesn't seem like justice? We're saying that we don't believe the punishment fits the crime, right? We're saying the punishment is disproportionate to the offense. What's the offense in this instance? It's rebelling against the God who miraculously freed you from slavery in Egypt.
It's going back on your promise to follow him that you made only a few weeks ago. It's spitting in the face of God whose very presence is visible in front of you at that moment in the form of the cloud upon Mt. Sinai.
That's the offense. This is God we're talking about. It's got. Sinning against man is in no way comparable to sinning against God. The God of all creation, your maker, your savior, sinning against God is deadly serious and we're seeing that pictured here physically in Exodus 32. I please hear me on this because I know this is still difficult for some of us to grasp, but if this seems harsh to you, then you have not yet grasped the seriousness of sin.