2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
3Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
6So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
“Aaron might make a calf, but the people made it a god, by adoring it.” (Trapp)
NASB 6:”So the next day they rose early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”
“The verb sahaq (play) signifies drunken, immoral orgies and sexual play.” (Kaiser)
“It seems impossible that, so soon after receiving such a lofty revelation, Israel could fall so low: but Christian experience today is often the same.” (Cole)
How many Christians claim to be such but adore a god of their own making?
A god can be anything that you put more passion into than Jesus Himself.
It can be a hobby, an addiction, a person, etc.....
Have you made (it) a god by adoring it?
Blessings, David
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