August 4, 2025 • 11 mins
On episode 76, Tim discusses the golden calf the Israelites built after God freed them from Egyptian slavery.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome into episode number seventy six of Bring Heaven Down.
My name is Tim and I'm the host of this
podcast that shows up in your feed Monday through Friday.
Be sure to rate and review the show if you
have not yet already, because this gives this podcast more
exposure and can bring Jesus into more lives. If you
have a question, a comment, a disagreement, a concern, a testimony,
(00:27):
are you just wanting to say hey? Email the show
Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail dot com. That's
Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail dot com. All right,
The story takes a sudden shift. Moses led the Israelite
(00:48):
people past the Red Sea. The Egyptians drown in the sea,
and the Israelites are finally free from fear from the
Egyptian army getting after them, so they feel good. What
(01:14):
happens next is crazy. Grab your favorite drink or a
cup of coffee. Let's bring Heaven a little closer together.
So Moses goes into Egypt. The ten plagues happen. Pharaoh
(01:38):
releases the Israelites. They are led by a pillar of
fire by day and by night. They go around the
long way so that they will not be tempted to
go back if the Egyptians come after them. Gyptians are coming,
(02:02):
and the Israelites point their finger at Moses and at
God and say, why did you bring us out here?
We would have rather been enslaved than die in the
middle of the desert. And then God acts again. He
(02:23):
places a pillar of smoke between the Egyptians and the Israelites,
so the Egyptians cannot get them. And as that's happening,
the Red Sea parts they cross. The Egyptians drowned and
the Israelites are free. And then Moses goes to the
(02:45):
mountain to have a conversation with God, where he receives
the ten commandments. And he's gone for forty days. And
here's what happens next. When the Israelite people saw that
Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,
(03:11):
they gathered around Aaron and said, come make us gods
who will go before us. As for this fellow, Moses,
who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know
what has happened to him. Aaron answered them, take off
the gold earrings that your wives, your sons, and your
daughters are wearing, and bring them to me. So all
the people took off their earrings and brought them to Erin.
(03:34):
He took what they handed him and made it into
an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning
it with a tool. Then they said, these are your
gods Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. What
an insult. When Aaron saw this, he built a non
(03:56):
altar in front of the calf and announced, tomorrow I
there will be a festival to the Lord. So the
next day the people rose early and sacrifice burnt offerings
and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward, they sat down to eat
and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry. Then
the Lord said to Moses, go down, because your people,
(04:18):
whom you brought out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They
have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them,
and have made themselves an idle cast in the shape
of a calf. They have bowed down to it and
sacrificed to it, and have said, these are your gods, Israel,
who have brought you up out of Egypt. I have
(04:38):
seen these people, the Lord said to Moses, and they
are a stiff necked people. Now leave me alone. So
that my anger may burn against them, and that I
may destroy them. Then I will make you into a
great nation. But Moses sought the favor of the Lord
is God. Lord. He said, why should your anger burn
against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with
(04:59):
great power in a mighty hand. Why should the Egyptians
say it was the evil intent that he brought them
out to kill them in the mountains and to wave
them off the face of the earth. Turn from your
fierce anger, relent, and do not bring disaster on your people.
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you
swore by your own self. I will make your descendants
(05:20):
as numerous as the stars in the sky. And I
will give your descendants all this land, I promised them,
and it will be their inheritance forever. Then the Lord
relented and did not bring on his people the disaster
that he had threatened. Moses turned and went down the
mountain with the two tablets with the Covenant Law in
his hands. They were inscribed on both hands, front and back.
(05:43):
The tablets were the work of God. The writing with
the was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. He
said to Moses, there is the sound of war in
the camp. Moses replied, it is not the sound of victory.
It is not the sound of defeat. It is the
(06:03):
sound of singing that I hear. When Moses approached the
camp and saw the calf in the dancing, his anger burned,
and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking
them in to pieces. At the foot of the mountain,
and he took the calf the people had made and
burned it in the fire. Then he ground it to powder,
scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
(06:27):
He said to Aaron, why did these people do to
you that you led them into such great sin. Do
not be angry, my lord, Aaron answered, you know how
prone these people are to evil. They said to me,
make us gods who will go before us. As for
this fellow Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we
don't know what has happened to him. So I told them,
(06:48):
whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off. Then they
gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire,
and out came this calf. Moses saw that the people
were running wild, and then Aaron had let them out
of control, and so became a laughing stock to their enemies.
So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said,
whoever is for the Lord, come to me, and all
(07:11):
the Levites rallied to him. Then he said to them,
this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
Each man, strapped a sword to his side, go back
and forth through the camp from one end to the other,
each killing his brother and friend and neighbor. The Leevites
did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand
of the people died. Then Moses said, you have been
(07:32):
set apart to the Lord today, for you were against
your own sons and brothers, and has blessed you to
this day. The next day Moses said to the people,
you have committed a great sin. But now I will
go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement
for your sin. So Moses went back to the Lord
and said, oh, what a great sin these people have committed.
(07:53):
They have made themselves gods of gold. But now please
forgive their sin. But if not, then blot me out
of the book you have. The Lord replied to Moses,
whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of
my book. Now go lead the people to the place
I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However,
when the time comes for me to punish, I will
punish them for their sin. And the Lord struck the
(08:15):
people with a plague because of what they did with
the calf Aaron had made. Wow, that's a lot. The
people made up a golden calf after they witnessed themselves
the miracles that God created leading them out of Egypt,
leading them by a pillar of fire, splitting the Red sea.
(08:36):
Forty days goes by, and they forget, They forget how
faithful God was. They forgot how amazing God was, and
they made a golden calf. And it's so easy to
look at the story and say, how could he do
such a thing? But don't we do the same thing
(09:00):
when God works in our life? How quickly do we
forget it? When God performs miracles in our life? How
quickly do we forget it and then move on and
look for the next shiny object to give us our identity?
(09:25):
Like the golden calf. This story should be a reminder
for all of us to not forget, just how God
worked in our lives. We should always look back and
remember how faithful He has been, because He has been
(09:51):
faithful always and will be faithful forever. But what happens
is our sin gets in the way and we get
this feeling of satisfaction from the Lord. We're grateful for
(10:12):
a moment, and then we start to take our eyes
off of the Lord and onto something in front of us,
whether it's a job, family, anything, money, a drink, a drug,
and then our eyes slowly shift away from God until
(10:38):
He disciplines us. And it says in Hebrews, God disciplines
his people like a parent disciplines their child. So as
sad as it is to read about the Golden Calf,
this story applies to us. The golden Calf became their God,
just like worldly things become our God. Sports, money, job, family,
(11:05):
And what we need to do on an everyday basis
is to submit and surrender to the One True God,
not the idolatry of gods surrounding us that the world
is attracted to. Thank you for choosing Jesus today and
(11:27):
help the Holy Spirit reveal more and more about our
Lord and Savior. To Jesus Christ,
Welcome into episode number seventy six of Bring Heaven Down.
My name is Tim and I'm the host of this
podcast that shows up in your feed Monday through Friday.
Be sure to rate and review the show if you
have not yet already, because this gives this podcast more
exposure and can bring Jesus into more lives. If you
have a question, a comment, a disagreement, a concern, a testimony,
(00:27):
are you just wanting to say hey? Email the show
Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail dot com. That's
Bring Heaven Down number seven at gmail dot com. All right,
The story takes a sudden shift. Moses led the Israelite
(00:48):
people past the Red Sea. The Egyptians drown in the sea,
and the Israelites are finally free from fear from the
Egyptian army getting after them, so they feel good. What
(01:14):
happens next is crazy. Grab your favorite drink or a
cup of coffee. Let's bring Heaven a little closer together.
So Moses goes into Egypt. The ten plagues happen. Pharaoh
(01:38):
releases the Israelites. They are led by a pillar of
fire by day and by night. They go around the
long way so that they will not be tempted to
go back if the Egyptians come after them. Gyptians are coming,
(02:02):
and the Israelites point their finger at Moses and at
God and say, why did you bring us out here?
We would have rather been enslaved than die in the
middle of the desert. And then God acts again. He
(02:23):
places a pillar of smoke between the Egyptians and the Israelites,
so the Egyptians cannot get them. And as that's happening,
the Red Sea parts they cross. The Egyptians drowned and
the Israelites are free. And then Moses goes to the
(02:45):
mountain to have a conversation with God, where he receives
the ten commandments. And he's gone for forty days. And
here's what happens next. When the Israelite people saw that
Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,
(03:11):
they gathered around Aaron and said, come make us gods
who will go before us. As for this fellow, Moses,
who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know
what has happened to him. Aaron answered them, take off
the gold earrings that your wives, your sons, and your
daughters are wearing, and bring them to me. So all
the people took off their earrings and brought them to Erin.
(03:34):
He took what they handed him and made it into
an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning
it with a tool. Then they said, these are your
gods Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. What
an insult. When Aaron saw this, he built a non
(03:56):
altar in front of the calf and announced, tomorrow I
there will be a festival to the Lord. So the
next day the people rose early and sacrifice burnt offerings
and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward, they sat down to eat
and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry. Then
the Lord said to Moses, go down, because your people,
(04:18):
whom you brought out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They
have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them,
and have made themselves an idle cast in the shape
of a calf. They have bowed down to it and
sacrificed to it, and have said, these are your gods, Israel,
who have brought you up out of Egypt. I have
(04:38):
seen these people, the Lord said to Moses, and they
are a stiff necked people. Now leave me alone. So
that my anger may burn against them, and that I
may destroy them. Then I will make you into a
great nation. But Moses sought the favor of the Lord
is God. Lord. He said, why should your anger burn
against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with
(04:59):
great power in a mighty hand. Why should the Egyptians
say it was the evil intent that he brought them
out to kill them in the mountains and to wave
them off the face of the earth. Turn from your
fierce anger, relent, and do not bring disaster on your people.
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you
swore by your own self. I will make your descendants
(05:20):
as numerous as the stars in the sky. And I
will give your descendants all this land, I promised them,
and it will be their inheritance forever. Then the Lord
relented and did not bring on his people the disaster
that he had threatened. Moses turned and went down the
mountain with the two tablets with the Covenant Law in
his hands. They were inscribed on both hands, front and back.
(05:43):
The tablets were the work of God. The writing with
the was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. He
said to Moses, there is the sound of war in
the camp. Moses replied, it is not the sound of victory.
It is not the sound of defeat. It is the
(06:03):
sound of singing that I hear. When Moses approached the
camp and saw the calf in the dancing, his anger burned,
and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking
them in to pieces. At the foot of the mountain,
and he took the calf the people had made and
burned it in the fire. Then he ground it to powder,
scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
(06:27):
He said to Aaron, why did these people do to
you that you led them into such great sin. Do
not be angry, my lord, Aaron answered, you know how
prone these people are to evil. They said to me,
make us gods who will go before us. As for
this fellow Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we
don't know what has happened to him. So I told them,
(06:48):
whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off. Then they
gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire,
and out came this calf. Moses saw that the people
were running wild, and then Aaron had let them out
of control, and so became a laughing stock to their enemies.
So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said,
whoever is for the Lord, come to me, and all
(07:11):
the Levites rallied to him. Then he said to them,
this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
Each man, strapped a sword to his side, go back
and forth through the camp from one end to the other,
each killing his brother and friend and neighbor. The Leevites
did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand
of the people died. Then Moses said, you have been
(07:32):
set apart to the Lord today, for you were against
your own sons and brothers, and has blessed you to
this day. The next day Moses said to the people,
you have committed a great sin. But now I will
go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement
for your sin. So Moses went back to the Lord
and said, oh, what a great sin these people have committed.
(07:53):
They have made themselves gods of gold. But now please
forgive their sin. But if not, then blot me out
of the book you have. The Lord replied to Moses,
whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of
my book. Now go lead the people to the place
I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However,
when the time comes for me to punish, I will
punish them for their sin. And the Lord struck the
(08:15):
people with a plague because of what they did with
the calf Aaron had made. Wow, that's a lot. The
people made up a golden calf after they witnessed themselves
the miracles that God created leading them out of Egypt,
leading them by a pillar of fire, splitting the Red sea.
(08:36):
Forty days goes by, and they forget, They forget how
faithful God was. They forgot how amazing God was, and
they made a golden calf. And it's so easy to
look at the story and say, how could he do
such a thing? But don't we do the same thing
(09:00):
when God works in our life? How quickly do we
forget it? When God performs miracles in our life? How
quickly do we forget it and then move on and
look for the next shiny object to give us our identity?
(09:25):
Like the golden calf. This story should be a reminder
for all of us to not forget, just how God
worked in our lives. We should always look back and
remember how faithful He has been, because He has been
(09:51):
faithful always and will be faithful forever. But what happens
is our sin gets in the way and we get
this feeling of satisfaction from the Lord. We're grateful for
(10:12):
a moment, and then we start to take our eyes
off of the Lord and onto something in front of us,
whether it's a job, family, anything, money, a drink, a drug,
and then our eyes slowly shift away from God until
(10:38):
He disciplines us. And it says in Hebrews, God disciplines
his people like a parent disciplines their child. So as
sad as it is to read about the Golden Calf,
this story applies to us. The golden Calf became their God,
just like worldly things become our God. Sports, money, job, family,
(11:05):
And what we need to do on an everyday basis
is to submit and surrender to the One True God,
not the idolatry of gods surrounding us that the world
is attracted to. Thank you for choosing Jesus today and
(11:27):
help the Holy Spirit reveal more and more about our
Lord and Savior. To Jesus Christ,
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