Day Twenty-Five
Day Twenty-Five -- Exodus 31-34
Read these chapters to the left with the BIBLE READER widget, or you can read them at www.bible.com. Today's reading actually has stories, instead of the rules the past couple days have had.
So, let's get started, shall we? How many of you out there are happy that today you got to read stories? Like, it wasn't "thou shall do this" or "do that..." it was an actual plot. It's pretty confusing, but I'll try and sum it up best I can!
So, first, God talks about how Holy the Sabbath is (or is supposed to be) for the Israelites. That finishes all of his rules he laid out, and you'd think that after all of those commandments that the people would realize how important it is to follow God, and they'd become better people, and raise all of their offspring as good followers of God, and blah blah blah.
But, like all the other people in the Bible, they failed. Instead of praising God and thanking him for everything, they were upset that they never got to actually see God, so they cried and whined to Aaron that they need something to worship they can believe in, and see.
Isn't that how it is for most people? "There's no God! I can't see him, or anything. Psh."
WRONG!
You can't see the wind, but you can feel it's affects, just like God and his miracles. Have you ever seen a million dollar bill? Me neither. But just because you've never seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Anyway, that's what the Israelites thought, that they needed something, like a material object to worship. Stupid Israelites.
Aaron (who was also stupid at this time in place,) told them to take off their earrings, and they all made a statue of a cow out of the melted gold to worship. It makes me so angry. They can't possibly think that a statue of a cow can save them from sin, right?
I sound like one of those guys who screams at the football players on TV. The players can't hear them, but they still want to discourage them.
Kinda like me and the Israelites.
When Moses found they were worshipping the cow, he was furious! It's one of the Ten Commandments he laid out for them! DO NOT WORSHIP ANY OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. Moses approached them, and threw the pieces of rock that the commandments were carved on at the base of the mountain in anger.
God wanted to kill all of them... because, after all, that's what he told them. If they worshipped anyone else, they were to be put to death.
Moses, though, knew there were some people out of the crowd that did believe in God, and the REAL God. He asked all the people that if they did believe in his God, to come and join him. Some came to him, some didn't, and stuck with their stupid cow.
Big mistake.
Once Moses saw all the people that didn't believe, he told all the people that DO believe that they would live, and the others were going to be put to death. How did the non-believers die, you ask?
The believers were asked to kill them.
Seems harsh, but it's in the Bible. I don't make the stories, just talk about them. Anyway, the believers in God got to stay alive, and once all the sinners/non-believers/cow worshippers were gone, Moses went to Mount Sinai and re-carved the tablets, and then led all of his believers to "the land of milk and honey," which we'll learn later is The Promised Land.
Most times, its hard to believe in God. but, it has it's blessings. Like, for instance, if you believe in God, you won't be murdered by believers, like the people in this story.
OOOOOOkay, so maybe not that intense... but you get the idea.
Believe in God no matter what, because it will be accounted for in God's eyes.
Go in Peace!
Read these chapters to the left with the BIBLE READER widget, or you can read them at www.bible.com. Today's reading actually has stories, instead of the rules the past couple days have had.
So, let's get started, shall we? How many of you out there are happy that today you got to read stories? Like, it wasn't "thou shall do this" or "do that..." it was an actual plot. It's pretty confusing, but I'll try and sum it up best I can!
So, first, God talks about how Holy the Sabbath is (or is supposed to be) for the Israelites. That finishes all of his rules he laid out, and you'd think that after all of those commandments that the people would realize how important it is to follow God, and they'd become better people, and raise all of their offspring as good followers of God, and blah blah blah.
But, like all the other people in the Bible, they failed. Instead of praising God and thanking him for everything, they were upset that they never got to actually see God, so they cried and whined to Aaron that they need something to worship they can believe in, and see.
Isn't that how it is for most people? "There's no God! I can't see him, or anything. Psh."
WRONG!
You can't see the wind, but you can feel it's affects, just like God and his miracles. Have you ever seen a million dollar bill? Me neither. But just because you've never seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Anyway, that's what the Israelites thought, that they needed something, like a material object to worship. Stupid Israelites.
Aaron (who was also stupid at this time in place,) told them to take off their earrings, and they all made a statue of a cow out of the melted gold to worship. It makes me so angry. They can't possibly think that a statue of a cow can save them from sin, right?
I sound like one of those guys who screams at the football players on TV. The players can't hear them, but they still want to discourage them.
Kinda like me and the Israelites.
When Moses found they were worshipping the cow, he was furious! It's one of the Ten Commandments he laid out for them! DO NOT WORSHIP ANY OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. Moses approached them, and threw the pieces of rock that the commandments were carved on at the base of the mountain in anger.
God wanted to kill all of them... because, after all, that's what he told them. If they worshipped anyone else, they were to be put to death.
Moses, though, knew there were some people out of the crowd that did believe in God, and the REAL God. He asked all the people that if they did believe in his God, to come and join him. Some came to him, some didn't, and stuck with their stupid cow.
Big mistake.
Once Moses saw all the people that didn't believe, he told all the people that DO believe that they would live, and the others were going to be put to death. How did the non-believers die, you ask?
The believers were asked to kill them.
Seems harsh, but it's in the Bible. I don't make the stories, just talk about them. Anyway, the believers in God got to stay alive, and once all the sinners/non-believers/cow worshippers were gone, Moses went to Mount Sinai and re-carved the tablets, and then led all of his believers to "the land of milk and honey," which we'll learn later is The Promised Land.
Most times, its hard to believe in God. but, it has it's blessings. Like, for instance, if you believe in God, you won't be murdered by believers, like the people in this story.
OOOOOOkay, so maybe not that intense... but you get the idea.
Believe in God no matter what, because it will be accounted for in God's eyes.
Go in Peace!
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