While Moses was on the mountain receiving true precepts from God, Aaron was down below on the plain being deceived. As Moses came down the mountain and saw the golden calf and the naked Israelites, Aaron made excuses for them all:
For they (the Israelites) said
unto me, “Make us gods, which shall go before us, for as for this Moses, the
man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of
him. And I said unto them, “Whosoever has any gold, let them break it off; so,
they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf” (Exod 32:23-24)
The Israelites thought that Moses
was lost, but indeed it was themselves and Aaron who were! Moses had gone up
the mountain for days and found the “Way” of God (The Ten Commandments), but
the Israelites became lost right there where Moses had left them.
When Moses came down, he broke
God’s Word on the tablets of stone, so now He would go up the mountain again,
so that the Israelites would have a Way to go. The so called, “Ten Commandments”
would be the “Way” in the manner of Jesus, according to Jesus. One follower asked
Jesus which command was greatest:
Master, which is the great commandment in
the law?
Jesus said unto him, “You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
mind…. “This is the first and great commandment.”
“And the second is like unto it, you shall
love your neighbor as yourself; on these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets. (Mat 22:36-40)
The Ten Commandments were
directions to follow to Jesus, not terms of endearment; they were the will of
God for a portion of God’s Estate in heaven. They were “The Way” to eternal
life and were proxies for Jesus until He was revealed to mankind as “The Word”
(John 1:1-14).
In a manner of speaking, those tablets
were “Jesus”: written by the finger of God — the letter Yod… in Power (Aleph,
or El).
Why two tablets? The first
tablet might have represented Jesus Himself… not to take the Name of God in
vain, and the second tablet the Holy Ghost… loving others in the absence of
Jesus is like loving Jesus bodily. The Holy Trinity was represented on those
two stones and the Power that was in the hand (Yod) that wrote them.
Moses made amends for his people
because they had not been following God, but himself, all along. God made that
right!
Like Adam, Noah, and Abraham
before him, Moses found grace. After God hewed two new tablets of stone, Moses
carried them this time without breaking any of them, and Moses became the “Law,”
or “The Word” of God as scripture indicates:
The Lord descended in the cloud, and stood
with him there, and proclaimed the Name of the Lord, and the Lord passed by
before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear
the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon
the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
And Moses made haste and bowed his head
toward the earth and worshipped, and he said, “If now I have found grace in Your
sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray You, go among us; for it is a stiff-necked
people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.”
When Aaron and all the children of Israel
saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come
nigh him.
And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and
all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him and Moses talked with
them.
And afterward all the children of Israel
came nigh and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him
in mount Sinai, and till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on
his face, but when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the
vail off, until he came out. And he came out and spoke unto the children of
Israel that which he was commanded.
And the children of Israel saw the face of
Moses, that the skin of Moses's face shone and Moses put the vail upon his face
again, until he went in to speak with Him. (Exod
34:5-9)
Moses thought he had found the grace of God, and as
evidence, God came as a cloud and Moses shined the Light of God as evidence of
that. Then Moses read the Word of God as if He was God Himself. Of course,
Moses was not God, but he would have had a fragment of God in his body
that shined in the darkness of the night.
Now let’s stop for a moment about what would have happened
from a scientific perspective. First off, it all began with God as a burning
bush, to wit:
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian. and he led the flock to the backside of
the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb, and the Angel of
the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and
he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not
consumed. (Exod 3:1-2)
“The Angel of the Lord” is
usually thought to be pre-incarnate Jesus — Jesus before He had flesh. His angel
is what is considered to be the Holy Ghost. Hence, the Holy Ghost was the countenance
of the divine man, Jesus. The burning bush revealed the Power of God that would
burn but not consume. The Power of God was beneficially good, and not
destructive. Moses had seen God as both Power and Light as a pillar of fire that
would not go out.
As days had gone by, Moses would
follow the pillar of a cloud by day and that same pillar of fire by night which
lit the Way for them (Exod 13:21).
Now, Moses would become the
pillar of fire by night! His face shined the way and when not necessary, he
concealed his face. Moses would have had God in him, and Moses became the proxy
for Jesus, so by following Moses, who had grace, they were unwittingly
following Jesus. It is not that Moses was “God” as the Jews venerated him, but
that the shining of Moses revealed the pillar of fire of God that came unto
himself.
God stopped on the Holy Mountain
and appeared as a burning bush. That bush revealed God as a pillar of fire.
When Moses stood on Holy Ground,
and even kissed it, something miraculous happened — God breathed His divine
breath in Moses, and he became the same inner Substance as God as his countenance
went from dim to bright. Moses had the Power of God (El) in himself, and
he became the walking beacon that they would follow. Some knew that God was in
Moses and some did not. The first act of God was to eliminate those who did not
understand that El Saday had shared His Presence to Moses. Moses became
the created Image of God by God. (That is important in the next
commentary.)
Forbidden were molten images.
After the golden calf incidence, Moses issued a new tenet: “You shall make for
yourselves no molten gods” (Exod 34:17). Moses was speaking the written words
of God and for some time, Moses became as God. The Jewish problem is that Jews
hang onto Moses as if He is God instead of Jesus.
God had made Moses a living image
of Himself, but the Israelites had made for themselves a molten image of a
falsely perceived “god” — the golden calf.
God is the true Light and the
calf of gold false light and soon some of the Israelites would see the Light of
God in Moses and follow the Living God rather than the static lifeless god that
they had created.
Before we leave the cloud and
fragment conversation, in theology, Moses was “born again” as he was engendered
from God above on the mountain as the Greek means (John 3:7).
God engendered Moses with His
Light and Moses carried the Light of God all the Way to the Promise Land. There
the Light of God in Moses dimmed, and “Jesus” (Joshua) would carry the Light of
God, like Moses had, as a proxy until the advent of Jesus.
In scientific terms, when the
cloud of God stopped (rested on the mountain), He revealed Himself as fire. Moses
breathed into himself the fire of God and shined brightly. Moses became the
quantum “particle” from the quantum packet of energy (El Saday) — the
cloud of fire.
Moses somehow let the fire go out;
perhaps in his anger, so he went back up the mountain, and the fire entangled
him a second time and he became one with God.
In quantum-speak, Moses
was the “particle”, or “fragment” in Platonian philosophy, of God from the
cloud of God.
The Angel of God was first. So,
when God stopped on the mountain, He revealed Himself in three substances: (1)
The Power of the burning bush, (2) the wave — The Angel of God, and lastly as (3)
the particle — the man, Moses.
The infilling of Moses by the
grace of God was according to quantum mechanics. Moses was a temporary version
of Jesus until Jesus came. (No wander Moses was on the Mount of Transfiguration
to see the grace passed on to Jesus; Mat 17:1-9).
Next the calf of God will be critically
analyzed for meaning.
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