And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”
But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against 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 offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.
There are private consciences yoked to God. Then there are collective consciences flowing with the fashionable crowd sentiment. Every crowd has their golden calf promising subsistence and security.
ReplyDeleteGod defined to Moses the flawed character of the collective conscience. "It is a stiff-necked people", meaning they are unwilling to place their lives under the yoke of the divine law. God's wrath is more to those making a covenant with Him, and then breaking it, rejecting His graces and wisdom. God sees the predispositions of our soul. @larrygrowe
However He did spare them but He did punished with a plague..
ReplyDeleteIn the OT God worked that way..But thanks be to God for the New Testament..Jesus Christ ...