Lessons Of The Golden Calf

Scythian Jo-hn

5/13/2025

Here is a message one should take to heart.

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00:00Hey, shalom brothers and sisters. Today I want to talk about the golden calf. The golden

00:07calf that Israel worshipped, you know, foolish mistake. The golden calf, of course, the apest

00:18bull came out of Egypt with Israel and they never really learned their lesson with this

00:26thing. I don't know, but I'm going to read some scriptures to you about it. I'm going

00:32to go to Exodus chapter 32. Please follow me if you have a Bible. If not, you know, check

00:38up on these verses later and study this scripture because it's idolatry is what this is. And

00:47idolatry is still going on today in many churches, many, many churches, and they don't even know

00:51it. Just like the Israelites didn't know that this was idolatry. Let's see. Yeah, I'll just

01:01start with the first verse of 32. And when the prophet saw that Moses delayed to come down

01:09out of the mountain, and when the people saw that Moses delayed and come down from the mountain,

01:15the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, Up, make us mighty

01:22ones, or make us gods, which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought

01:31us up out of the land of Egypt, we wrought not that what is become of him. We don't know

01:38what happened to him because he's gone so long. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden

01:44earrings which are in thine ears of your wives and your sons and of your daughters and bring

01:50them unto me. And all the people broke the golden earrings which were in their ears and

01:55brought them to Aaron. And he received them in their hand and fashioned it with a graving

02:02tool after he had made a molten calf. And they said, These be thy mighty ones, O Israel, which

02:10brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. So they're, uh, right now they're turning their

02:15backs on Yahweh. They're disrespecting them. And, uh, it's not going to go very well with

02:20them. They should have learned their lesson. You know, all the miracles they've seen, like

02:24the Red Sea, the plagues and everything else, but for some reason they seem like they was

02:29forgetful or something. Uh, and when, when, when Aaron saw it, he built the altar before

02:37it and Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow is the feast to Yahweh. And they rose up early

02:44in the morrow and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat

02:49down to eat and to drink and rose up to play. And Yahweh said unto Moses, they were on, they

02:55are on a mountain right now. Let's go get thee down for thy people, which thou broughtest

03:03out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way

03:10which I commanded them. They have made unto them a molten calf and have worshiped it and

03:15have sacrificed there onto and said, These be the mighty ones, O Israel, which have brought

03:21thee up out of the land of Egypt. And Yahweh said unto Moses, Have seen this people? And

03:27behold, it is a stiff-necked people. So they are, they're, they're stiff-necked people is

03:32what they are. Now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath shall wax hot against them and

03:39that I might consume them and I will make of thee a great nation. Yahweh started getting

03:44fired up. You could say he's getting mad. He's going to destroy all those people except

03:48Moses and he's going to, he's going to like, uh, repopulate the earth or create his, create

03:53the holy seed through Moses' seed. You know, just like, you know, Noah and his kids, you

03:59know, how he destroyed the earth. He was, uh, Yahweh was really upset and he was getting

04:03ready to destroy the, the tribes at this point. And Moses besought Yahweh, his Elohim, and said,

04:11Yahweh, why doth thou, like, wax hot against the people which thou hast brought forth out of

04:17the land of Egypt with great power and with great mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians

04:25speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume

04:31them from the face of the earth? Turn, turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil

04:38against the people. Please remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou

04:46swearest by thy own self and said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens

04:51and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto the seed and they shall inherit forever.

05:01So he's, uh, Moses is pleading this case. He's, he's, he's like a mediator. He's in between

05:06Yahweh. He's trying to calm Yahweh down and please don't do this. You know, don't take him out of the

05:11land of Egypt just to kill him because, you know, is that what, you know, Egypt's and other people

05:15be thinking that's what he planned all along. So he's pleading their case. You know, he's like,

05:20have mercy on them. They don't know any better. And Yahweh repented of his evil, which he thought

05:26to do unto the people. Moses turned and went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the

05:33testimony, the 10 commandments were in his hand. The tables are written on both their sides,

05:40front and back. And on one side and the other side were they written. And, uh, and the tables

05:46and the tables were the work of Elohim. And the writing was the writing of Elohim graven onto the

05:52tablets. And when Josh, Joshua heard the noise of the people, as they shouted, he said unto Moses,

05:59there is a noise of war in the camp. And he said, it's not the voice of them that shout

06:04for mastery. Neither is the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them

06:11that sing, do I hear. And it came to pass as soon as he came near unto the camp that he saw the calf

06:19and the dancing. And Moses was, well, he was angry too. He became angry just like Yahweh was moments

06:25before. And he cast down the tables out of his hands and broke them beneath the mountain,

06:31mount, the mountain. He's, he threw them down. He was so mad and disgusted what he saw.

06:36And he took the calf, which he, which they had made and burn it in the fire and ground

06:41it to powder and, and strawed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it.

06:47And Moses said unto Aaron, what did this people do? What do these people want to thee that thou

06:54have brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, let not the anger of my sovereign wax hot.

07:02Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief. And you know, that's, that's pretty obvious

07:08through their history to the Israelites history where they said unto me, make us mighty ones,

07:14which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man has brought us up out of the land of Egypt

07:20were wrought not what has become of him. And I said unto them, whosoever hath any gold, let him break

07:30it off. So they gave it to me and I cast it into fire and there came out this calf. And when Moses saw

07:38that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.

07:45So there's what partying naked. That's what he's doing. He's getting really getting down, partying

07:49here, all naked dancing, doing whatever. Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said,

07:56who is on Yahweh's side? Let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together

08:02unto him. And he said unto them, thus saith Yahweh Elohim of Israel, put every man to his sword,

08:12put every man his sword by his side and go in and out from the gate to gate throughout the camp and

08:19slay every man, his brother and every man, his companion and every man, his neighbor. And the

08:24children of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell on the fell of the people that day

08:30about three thousand men. So the Levites, they restored order, I guess, with the sword. So Moses had

08:38said, consecrate yourselves today for Yahweh, even every man's upon his son and upon his brother. And he

08:47that bestow upon you a blessing this day. And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses said unto the

08:54people, you have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up until Yahweh peradventure. And I will

09:01make an atonement for your sin. Moses returned unto Yahweh and said, all this people have sinned a

09:08great sin and have made them mighty ones of gold. You know, gods yet now, if thou will forgive their

09:16sin, if not blot me, I pray thee out of thy book, which thou hast written. It's a book of life.

09:26And Yahweh said unto Moses, whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

09:35Therefore, now go lead the people unto the place which I have spoken unto thee. Behold, mine angel shall

09:41go forth before thee. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin

09:48upon them. And Yahweh plagued the people because they made the calf which Aaron made. So they

09:56didn't, you know, they might have been forgiven in a way, but in a way, but you know, they didn't go

10:02without punishment. They got a plague on them. So that was the calf that they, the calf

10:11worship religion. They, they came out of Egypt. They brought it out because that's what they

10:16knew back then. And they thought they weren't doing any wrong and doing that, but they did.

10:22And they got a powerful message, a warning about it. And, uh, that wasn't the last of the golden

10:26calf because Israel, of course, started doing that again. When, uh, the United Kingdom broke

10:34up into, you know, the Northern and the Southern, uh, kingdoms, Jeroboam, he became the king

10:40of the Northern Israelites, the 10 tribes. And he reintroduced the calf worship from Egypt.

10:49And it's kind of ironic that Israel, when they came out of Egypt, they brought that out with

10:55them. They brought that religion with them. But Jeroboam, he was, uh, he was, uh, serving

11:02under Solomon and he, uh, angered Solomon and Solomon wanted to kill him. So he ran to Egypt

11:09and down in Egypt, he must've, uh, learned the, the apis bull golden calf worship down

11:17there again. And when he came back up, became King, he reintroduced it to the children of

11:23Israel. He didn't want them to go to Jerusalem, you know, to, to the temple and do the religion

11:29because he was afraid that after a while people would start wanting to reunite with Judah again.

11:35And then they would, uh, take him and they would execute him and Reroboam would be the

11:40king. He wants more of the United Kingdom. That's what he's afraid of. And, uh, I think it's

11:46first Kings, first Kings, uh, chapter 12, 25. I'm going to read 25 to, uh, 33 about his idolatry.

11:56Then Jeroboam built, uh, built Shetham, uh, Shetham, uh, Shetham, uh, Shetham, uh, Shetham,

12:04unto Mount Ephraim and dwelt thereun and went out from hence to belt Peniel. And Jeroboam said

12:14unto the heart, now shall the kingdom of, now the Shetham kingdom return to the house of David.

12:19If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then shall the heart

12:25of the people turn again unto their sovereign, even unto Reroboam king of Judah. And they shall

12:31kill me and go again to Reroboam king of Judah, whereupon the king took counsel and made two

12:37casts of gold. Here we go. The castle gold again and said unto them, it is too much for you to go

12:43up to Jerusalem. Behold, thy mighty ones. Oh, Israel that brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

12:49So here we got that reference again, like they did, you know, on, uh, you know, Mount Sinai there,

12:56you know, here's your gods again. This is, this is, you know, verbatim. He's, he's, he's saying the

13:01words that, that, you know, uh, Aaron said right there, the altar, you know, the golden calf.

13:07Uh, and he's, and he set one, uh, he set one in Bethel and the other, he put in Dan that towns.

13:17And this thing became a sin for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

13:23And he made a house of high places and made priests of the lowest of people, which were not

13:29the sons of Levi. He was from the other tribes and Levi is the priestly tribe. And Jeroboam ordained

13:36a feast in the eighth month of the 15th day of the month, like this unto the feast that is in Judah.

13:43And he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel sacrificing unto the calves that he made, he had

13:51made, and he replaced in Bethel, the priest of the highest places, which he had made. So he offered

13:59upon the altar, which was that he made Bethel the 15th day of the eighth month, even in the month,

14:05which he had devised of his own heart and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel. And he offered

14:11upon the altar and burnt incense. So he's making a counterfeit religion. He's not, it's not a true

14:18religion of Yahweh. It's a counterfeit religion. He's changing things around and he kicked Yahweh

14:25out of their presence, which was totally wrong. And throughout the history, as you go down with

14:31the kings and kings, they just get more evil, more polluted, and they introduce even more

14:37mighty ones or gods, you know, unto the flock, you know, the children. And Judah wasn't, it wasn't

14:45immune to Judah. Judah followed suit, you know, but they, you know, and he had a couple of times,

14:50you know, when a couple of good kings would come, you know, every once in a while. And then Judah,

14:55the Kings of Judah, a couple of kings came, tried to restore the true faith, you know, short lived,

15:01but, you know, it was admirable that they did that. And, uh, anyways, you know, I just wanted to talk

15:08about the golden calf, you know, came out of Egypt, Avis bull, bull worship, Hathor, the goddess Hathor.

15:16You can look that up, do research on that, but please, you know, study this up, you know, look it

15:21up. And, um, I thank you again for tuning in until we meet again. And please like my videos, uh, subscribe

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15:43And with that said and done, thank you. Shalom and peace out.

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