Deuteronomy 9:7 ¶ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
The Israelites provoked God many times but Moses reminds them of a
particular event that bears repeating.
“Exodus 32:1 ¶ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to
come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron,
and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for
this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said
unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your
wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the
golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto
Aaron. 4 And he received them at
their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten
calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when
Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation,
and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and
offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down
to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
These people
who have spent so long in Egypt with the worship of heathen gods want Aaron to
make gods for them to worship. That is what they have known for hundreds of
years and they are quick to abandon the singular devotion to the magnificent
God who created them and called them out of Egypt with such mighty signs. This
is a problem for Christians as we are often not willing to wait for God to do
something in our lives and rather quickly began looking backwards into the
things that we leaned on before we came to Christ.
As far as
they were concerned, Moses might have died on the mountain. Aaron is either a
creature of public opinion, maybe afraid of the masses, or he also doubts
whether or not Moses will return. So, he calls for their earrings.
Earrings had a special significance, which I pointed out in
Genesis. Jewelry played a part in ancient worship. Earrings
were not merely ornamentation for both men and women but were, scholars tell
us, sometimes amulets and charms to protect the openings of the face and head
from entry by evil spirits. They were clearly part of the idol worship of the
ancient world, the spiritual system that developed after the Flood. If you have difficulty seeing that side of
facial jewelry just look at the hundreds of occult earrings on a website like
Etsy.com. Some verses of note regarding men and women wearing earrings and of a
possible link to their occultic practices are;
Genesis
35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Judges
8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would
desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey.
(For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, We will willingly give
them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of
his prey.
In
the passage in Genesis, chapter 35, and here in Exodus we have a very clear
indication that something linked earrings to the spirit world.
Verse 4 is an astounding statement that makes Aaron worthy of
death. Of course, if you think about it, we do very much the same thing when we
say, “good luck!” or, “oh, how lucky you were.” When we, even absent-mindedly,
attribute our good fortune or our trouble to something or someone other than
God we do blaspheme His name and diminish the glory due Him.
Malachi 2:2 If ye will not
hear, and if ye will not lay it
to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will
even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed
them already, because ye do not lay it
to heart.
Aaron made a
molten calf. The calf/bull was a commonly worshipped as a god in the Ancient
Near East and in Egypt. While Moses was receiving what may have been the
introduction of the alphabet over pictographic writing the Hebrews were falling
down to worship the object symbolized by the pictographic rendering of a calf,
a young bull. Aleph, the first letter of Hebrew, is derived from the
pictographic representation of the young bull. Alpha, the Greek letter, was
derived from Aleph. With the ‘alpha-bet’ God removed the pictures that were
worshipped to letters that represented thoughts and ideas only rather than
sacred objects representing thoughts and ideas.
This is a
return to Egypt in a religious sense. The ensuing nudity and orgy was in
keeping with the sexual aspects of Ancient Near Eastern religion. See verse 25
in this chapter coming up.
To explain
further, in ancient Greece and Rome orgia was a sacred word denoting worship in
the mystery cults such as that devoted to Dionysus. It included dancing,
singing, and drinking as well as promiscuous sexual behavior. You cannot
underestimate the sexual perversion of ancient religion after the Flood. The
ancient Egyptians practiced every kind of perversion in their religion.
This was an
abomination to God and a corruption of His will for mankind to enjoy the
physical bond between a husband and a wife. Below is a summary of mankind’s
religious history, from Romans, emphasizing the descent from idolatry to
perversion.
Romans
1: 19 ¶ Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God,
neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart
was darkened. 22 Professing themselves
to be wise, they became fools, 23 And
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through
the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a
lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this
cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change
the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of
their error which was meet. 28 And even
as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not convenient; 29 Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of
envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they
which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them.
Notice in
verse 5 that Aaron is mingling this pagan worship with the worship of Jehovah
God, the LORD. This is something that I discussed before as absolutely
forbidden.
You can
imagine God’s wrath as He is about to psychologically prepare Moses for what
Moses is about to see. By God expressing a rage and alleged intentions to
destroy the Hebrew people He affords Moses the opportunity to plead for mercy
as we will see.
Exodus
32:7 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go,
get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,
have corrupted themselves: 8 They
have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made
them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and
said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt. 9 And the LORD said unto
Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my
wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of
thee a great nation. 11 And Moses
besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against
thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great
power, and with a mighty hand? 12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring
them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of
the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy
people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto
them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that
I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it
for ever. 14 And the LORD repented of
the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
God tells
Moses to stand back while He destroys the Hebrews for their idolatry. This
gives Moses the chance to argue that to do such a thing would go against God’s
glory. It would not glorify Him in the sight of the Egyptians. It would even
appear that this destruction was the very reason He led them out of Egypt and
would justify the Egyptians rather than Himself. After all, no one would think
what the Hebrews were doing was amiss, now would they, in the religious
conditions of that world?
In verse 12
there is the definition of repent
used here. It is to turn from
something. This, then, in context is the definition of repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people in
verse 14. He turned from this. This is in keeping with a doctrine found in the
Bible that God does not repent as in ‘change His mind.’ As God’s foreknowledge
covers every event as if it has already happened we must look to the context
for understanding. In the next two verses repent
is linked with lie, the point
being that God can be trusted for the promises He made, and will not turn from
them.
Numbers
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not
make it good?
1Samuel
15:29 And also the Strength of Israel
will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
Here are
other verses where repent means to turn from something as in the passage
studied, to stop doing it or not do it, by comparing the contrast in the verse
in which the words repent and turn are used.
Jeremiah
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and
the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it,
and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah
18:8 If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that
I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah
26:3 If so be they will hearken, and turn
every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I
purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
Ezekiel
14:6 Therefore say unto the house of
Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn
away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O
house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent,
and turn yourselves from
all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Jonah
3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away
from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Acts
26:20 But shewed first unto them of
Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they
should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Sometimes,
someone’s behavior can compel you to turn from what you are permitting or
doing. For instance, a child you have given a privilege to disobeys in a way
that compels you to punish them or to revoke the privilege. In that case their
behavior repenteth you. And, in
Genesis 6:6,7 that behavior that compelled Him in something He already knew was
going to happen grieved Him.
Clearly then,
to repent of your sins is to turn from them. For the Christian repentance also
suggests being sorry for your sins and for who you are, a sinner. As Paul
noted;
2Corinthians
7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made
sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after
a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to
salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
It has been
said that when Jesus preached the following verses He was stating first that
those who realized they were spiritually bankrupt and mourned for sin were
blessed, as are those who humble themselves before God and hunger for His
righteousness, as are those who extend God’s mercy to others, keep themselves
from sin as best as they can with the right attitude, preach God’s peace with
mankind, and are persecuted for it;
Matthew
5:3 ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for
they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall
obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall
see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall
be called the children of God. 10
Blessed are they which
are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
It is
doubtful many modern Christians literally mourn for their sin against God and
others. Repentance is not a casual thing or just a change of mind.
But, in this context repent is simply to turn from what was stated to be done.
In verse 13
the promise that God made to the patriarchs is restated. An immense number of
physical descendants is to come through the Hebrews, a physical promise for
physical descendants that has not yet been completely fulfilled.
Genesis
24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said
unto her, Thou art our sister,
be thou the mother of thousands
of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Exodus
32:15 ¶ And Moses turned, and went down
from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand:
the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the
other were they written. 16 And
the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing
of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And
when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There
is a noise of war in the camp. 18
And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for
mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being
overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh
unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed
hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took
the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire,
and ground it to powder, and
strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of
it.
Moses is carrying two tablets
of stone, each written on both sides by the very hand of God who created him.
This is amazing if you think about it. It is even more astounding that he threw
them down in his temper. In the next verse is something else written on both
sides.
Revelation
5:1 ¶ And I saw in the right hand of him
that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with
seven seals.
Joshua thinks there is fighting going on in the camp, perhaps a
rebellion.
Moses enacts a rather tough
punishment for the Israelites, being made to drink of the residue of what they
were worshipping.
Exodus
32:21 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, What
did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of
my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods,
which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any
gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it
into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and
said, Who is on the LORD’S side? let him come unto me. And all
the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the
word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate
yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his
brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Aaron acts like Adam did when
confronted by God. He blames others.
Genesis
3:12 And the man said, The woman
whom thou gavest to be
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Aaron’s lie
is so outrageous, then I cast it into the
fire, and there came out this calf, you wonder why he was not struck dead
at that moment. But, apparently, as David was not terminated for his murder of
Uriah by proxy, if God has a plan for someone to carry out they will be allowed
to live even if they have to drag the consequences of their sin along with them
like a piece of heavy concrete on a chain.
Verse 25
shows us that the people are naked. Naked is a word we have that means not
having any clothing on.
1Samuel
19:24 And he stripped off his clothes
also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked
all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
Job
1:21 And said, Naked came I out
of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave,
and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
So, it is
interesting how many preachers insist that in the following verse it is not
possible that Peter was working naked around a bunch of other fishermen.
John
21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus
loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter
heard that it was the Lord, he girt his
fisher’s coat unto him, (for he
was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
Conservative
Christians tend to read back 20th century sensibilities into
history. However, as has been said before, in this case in Exodus there is
another implication that is disturbing but in keeping with ancient religion,
revealed in verse 6 of this chapter.
In verse 26
Moses divides those who would remain faithful to the God who created them and
led them out of Egypt from those who would continue in the heathen practices of
ancient religion. Three thousand paid with their lives for the pagan, carnal
practices they enjoyed while Moses was away.
If you read
27, 28, & 29 in context it appears that Moses made his call to the tribe
from which the priests, the Levites who were to ensure the worship of God, came
and this call was made regardless of familial relationship. Father went against
son, and brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor and friend against
friend. This may have, based on this context, been a way to cleanse the
priesthood of idolaters. It also indicates that perhaps not all of the children
of Israel participated in the pagan worship and the leadership was held
accountable.
Exodus
32:30 ¶ And it came to pass on the
morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I
will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their
sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou
hast written. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against
me, him will I blot out of my book. 34
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have
spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the
day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. 35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they
made the calf, which Aaron made.
Moses tells the people that he
will make an atonement for their sin of idolatry. The word peradventure has to do with perhaps
or possibly, that type of meaning in
context, the word being connected with a sort of, “who knows?” type of
sentiment.
Moses, to make his argument before
God, offers to be damned in their place. Look at this verse from Revelation;
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be
clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the
book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his
angels.
Christ promises not to blot a
person’s name out of the Book of Life. Either the following verses mean the
people referred to can lose their salvation as God knows who will choose Him by
His foreknowledge as noted in 1Peter 1:2 since the foundation of the world as
per Ephesians 1:4;
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee
also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel,
with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the
book of life.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of
life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 17:8 The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into
perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not
written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold
the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book
was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things
which were written in the books, according to their works…15 And whosoever was
not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no
wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of
life.
Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall
take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things
which are written in this book.
…or all human beings’ names are in
the book when their soul was created, based on God’s foreknowledge and if we
reject Him our name is removed. The latter seems more likely to me as when we
are saved we are said to be sealed and the Holy Spirit is given to us as a
deposit, earnest money, so to speak.
2Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed
us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also
trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:
in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy
Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
So, it would be more consistent to
believe that God’s Book of Life contains all human beings’ names and when we
die physically the name is either left there or taken out based on what we have
done regarding Christ…
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
With regard to eternal life
God deals with us as individuals.
He then refers to His Angel, His presence, His physical
appearance.
Isaiah
63:9 In all their affliction he was
afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his
love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all
the days of old.
Judges
2:1 ¶ And an angel of the LORD came up
from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have
brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will
never break my covenant with you.
Acts
27:23 For there stood by me this night
the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Galatians
4:14 And my temptation which was in my
flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God,
even as Christ Jesus.
It is Christ
who leads them, the visible image of the invisible God. Remember, that God the
Father, the soul and seat of self-identity and will of the Godhead, is a spirit
being who is not visible to us.
John
4:24 God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth.
And no man has seen Him.
John
1:18 No man hath seen
God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he
hath declared him.
1Timothy
6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling
in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath
seen, nor can see: to whom be
honour and power everlasting. Amen.
But, Christ is His visible
image.
An image means looks like, the appearance of, the physical aspect that
can be seen.
Genesis
1:26 And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness:
Deuteronomy
4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image,
the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
And Christ is that of God, He
is the body of the Godhead.
Hebrews
1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image
of his person,
John
1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John
14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been
so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath
seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
2Corinthians
4:6 For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ.
2Corinthians
4:4 In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Colossians
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of every creature:”
Notice Exodus 32:20 And
he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire,
and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made
the children of Israel drink of it.
In Deuteronomy 9:21 here Moses does not mention how he made them
drink it in his own wrath.
Moses continues to relate and remind the Israelites of how they
have provoked God on several occasions but I will stick with the example I’ve
restated due to its egregious nature.
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