“When the people saw that Moses was so
long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, ‘Come,
make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, who brought us up
out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’” Exodus 32:1
After having seen such miracles, all the
terror God has brought upon the Egyptians, why were the Israelites so quick to
turn from God? Perhaps they never took Yahweh as their own savior. Dare to say that none recognized that they too could become adopted children. God was just a god of Moses to their eyes. Just over a month was enough to lose
faith in Moses, for they sought Moses, rather than God. Without Moses, the
Israelites never thought the Lord would continue on to lead them, for Yahweh was
still a God of Moses to their sight.
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