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THE GREATEST ACT OF SACRILEGE
MONDAY, AUGUST 30
Deuteronomy 9:9-15

Ephesians 6:10-18

 

“Put on the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to stand

against the wiles of the devil.”

 

THE GREATEST ACT OF SACRILEGE
 
Israel followed the way of the Egyptians and asked Aaron to make for them an image of a calf in gold. Aaron also was not able to resist the temptation to comply with the demands of the people. He told them to break the earrings in their ears and give them to him. They did as he told them and he took his graving tools and made a golden calf.
 
The calf was to represent the gods that brought them out of the land of Egypt. It was the greatest act of sacrilege that a man of Aaron’s stature could make. This was why Moses said they provoked the Lord to wrath. They invented a form of worship and offered sacrifices to the idol. It was at a time when Moses had gone up the mountain and the Lord was giving the Law to Israel. Instead of becoming a time of rejoicing, it was a time of great confrontation. Moses himself was so angry that he broke the two tables of stone on which the Lord had written His Law. Confusion reigned and the Lord threatened to destroy all the idolaters. Moses interceded for them and they were spared from utter destruction. The episode of the golden calf is a warning to everyone that none of us is immune to temptation. One has to learn to resist temptation before it comes. The Scripture teaches that God’s people are to put on the whole armour of God (Eph 6:10-18).
 
Moses abode in the mountain all those forty days to receive the Law of God. He did not eat or drink during that time. His fasting expressed the solemnity of that occasion and thus the Lord sustained him all those days. Nothing else was more important than God’s Law. The text says, “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. 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” (Deut 9:10-11).
 
THOUGHT: The devil is always plotting to deter my faith.

PRAYER: Father, keep me fully armed at all times.

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