“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. ¹⁶ Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
¹⁷ And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
¹⁸ But he said: “It is not the noise of the shout of victory, nor the noise of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing I hear.”
¹⁹ So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. ²⁰ 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. ²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”
²² So Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. ²³ 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.’ 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 this calf came out.”
²⁵ Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies), ²⁶ then 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. ²⁷ 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.’ “ Exodus 32:15-27.

We all know the story of how Moses came down from the mountain and heard the singing and dancing in the valley below.

He had just spent a long time before the Lord receiving the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments upon them.

Everything was outlined upon those stones for a people to live by, and now he was to give them to the children of Israel. But very soon he found out that they had fashioned a golden calf, an idol to worship while he was gone.

He threw the tablets upon the rocks in his anger because they had sought out something else to worship while he was gone.

And yet as we should know, many things can become an idol to us in this life. Anything that we give our time and homage to instead of our reverence to the creator, can become like that golden calf.

Some of us follow a leader, a person that may represent qualities that we think can deliver us and lead us into the Promised Land.

But as we should know, any person cannot fulfill those things for us. Some may still follow in their blindness, a person, a leader that personifies qualities that are even diametrically opposed to biblical standards and principles.

Words may well be spoken that sound true and biblical, but they are used for the wrong reasons and twisted to suit the circumstance. We are told that every tree is known by its fruit. Some is rotting on the tree while others are rich and full of the character of Christ.

But somehow in their folly to dress-up the golden calf and dance before it, they ignore the very stench and shape of that which they have created.

And yet God may well allow some to dance before a golden calf such as this. Yes, He is a jealous God and He alone wants our reverence and worship.

He knows that the thing that is being danced before, is an ugly thing, and yet it may well stand upon its haunches until all of its melted jewelry and gems have melted into a diabolical shape.

In His great wisdom he allows us to do these things until we find that the end result has wreaked so much havoc that nothing else is left for us.

Our land is in such turmoil now and it has reached a pinnacle of unrest and chaos that it may not ever fully recover from.

However, we should know that this is all a part of that which is written down concerning the days in which we now live.

But we still have someone else that can carry us through these troubled times, and He can give us the wisdom and strength to weather the days that are ahead.

Below is a HKP Word from 2018 that concerns some of these things:

“Woe to Those Who Preach Peace and Safety!”

March 4, 2018.

 

Selah,
~ Stephen Hanson

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Stephen Hanson of In His Truth Ministries came to the LORD is a special way in 1975 and has prophesied regularly since. In these end-time birthing pangs we are reminded that judgment must first begin with the household of God. Will we be prepared and ready?

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