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Acts 7:39-43 ESV

39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, 40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,

during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

43 You took up the tent of Moloch

and the star of your god Rephan,

the images that you made to worship;

and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

MAKE FOR US GODS

The 40 days and nights of waiting for Moses to come down from Mt. Sinai had revealed not only their impatience but insubordination to God. They demanded to a weak and pacifying Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

Once again, they rejected Moses[and God] and decided to turn back to Egypt. They made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. Similarly, people today want a god who permits them to indulge in their flesh. Thus Paul had equated idolatry with covetousness.

A sad reality as the psalmist writes;

“ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert!

They tested God again and again

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember his power

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,

when he performed his signs in Egypt

and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.”[Psa 78:40-43]

But, God is a jealous God.

There is only one God and there is none other.[Deut 6:4] God gave them up unto their lust. For 40 years, they didn’t offer to God the animal sacrifices according to the law of Moses. The next generation continued to pursue the worship of pagan gods like Moloch and Rephan [Saturn or Kiyun], according to the prophet Amos [Amos 5:6].

As a result, God pronounced that He would exile them even beyond Babylon. Man may get what he wanted but he couldn’t get away from the sad consequence. He who chooses his life for himself would lose it eventually.

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