32:7
Moses was absent and did not know what was happening with the people. However, God did, of course, know what was happening. Everything we do is done in the sight of the Lord. Everything anyone does is done in the sight of the Lord. It is interesting that God says “your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt”. Ultimately it was God who brought them out of Egypt. God initiated the release, and it was God’s power that released them. Yet God involved Moses, and Moses was then intimately connected with God’s actions. God involves us most closely with His plans. The people had corrupted themselves.
32:8
So how had they corrupted themselves? Most fundamentally they had turned away from the Lord’s commands, and they had done this by making a graven image and worshipping it. They had declared that the golden calf was their gods who had brought them out of Egypt. The people were now living a lie.
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