Just imagine if there never was a golden calf!
Rom 9:14 What, then, shall we say? Is there
unrighteousness with Elohim? Let it not be!
Rom 9:15 For He says to Mosheh, “I shall favour
whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
Rom 9:16 So, then, it is not of him who is wishing,
nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.
Exo 32:15 And Mosheh turned and went down from the
mountain, and in his hand were the two tablets of the Witness, tablets written
on both their sides, written on the one and on the other.
Exo 32:16 And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and
the writing was the writing of Elohim engraved on the tablets.
Exo 32:17 And Yehoshua heard the noise of the people as
they shouted and he said to Mosheh, “A noise of battle in the camp!”
Exo 32:18 But he said, “It is not the sound of those
who shout of might, nor is it the sound of those who cry out in weakness, but
the sound of singing that I hear.”
Exo 32:19 And it came to be, as soon as he came near
the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Mosheh’s displeasure
burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke(Shavar - piel verb
– shattered) them at the foot of the mountain.
Perhaps the
world has never yet fully recovered from the sin of the golden calf – for
centuries when the Torah was read, very few really understood its true message.
In these days there seems to be a recovery and an opening of ears and eyes to
hear (shema) what YHVH is saying to His people through the Torah.
2Co 3:14 But their minds were hardened, for to this
day, when the old (Gk ancient) covenant is being read, that same veil remains,
not lifted, because in Messiah it is taken away. (the veil remains for most
Christians)
2Co 3:15 But to this day, when Mosheh is being read, a
veil lies on their heart.
2Co 3:16 And when one turns to the Master, the veil is
taken away.
2Co 3:17 Now יהוה is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of יהוה is, there is freedom.
Because the Torah enlightened by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the
Set Apart Spirit) is the perfect law of freedom
Jas 1:25 But he that looked into the perfect Torah,
that of freedom,1 and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that
forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the
Torah. Footnote: 1See 2:12.
Exo 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and
burned it in the fire, and ground it into powder, and scattered it on the face
of the water and made the children of Yisra’ĕl drink it.
Law of Sotah or
“jealousy” A Sotah (Hebrew: שוטה [1] / סוטה) is a woman suspected of adultery
who undergoes the ordeal of bitter water or ordeal of jealousy as described and
prescribed in the Priestly Code, in the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the
Hebrew Bible. The term "Sotah" itself is not found in the Hebrew
Bible but is Mishnaic Hebrew based on the verse "if she has strayed"
(verb: שטה satah) in Numbers 5:12 The process was a trial by ordeal
administered to the wife whose husband suspected her of adultery but who had no
witnesses to make a formal case (Numbers 5:11-31) – Wikipedia
The sad reality is that historically the nation of Yisrael has suffered greatly under many “ordeals” – (sotah’s or sotot) –
Jer 30:7 ‘Oh! For great is that day, there is none
like it. And it is the time of Yaʽaqoḇ’s distress, but he shall be saved out of it.