Coming Down The Mountain
The Need To Hurry Down The Mountain
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down;
for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
themselves; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and
sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt!’” And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; now therefore let me alone,
that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I
will make a great nation.”
But Moses besought the Lord his God, and
said, “O Lord, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast
brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to
slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’?
Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, ‘I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised
I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for
ever.’” And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his
people.
And Moses turned, and went down from the
mountain with the two tables of the testimony in his hands, tables that were
written on both sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And
the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven
upon the tables.
Therefore, I descended down to the earth, entered my body and went down the mountain.
Son of man, have you seen what humanity do to God Almighty. All that God had suffered to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, and He wrote all that He had ordered in sequence and gave to me to give to the Israelites, the same for humanity, for their own good and wellbeing. The written laws … were not for the good and wellbeing of God. Humanity disappointed God.