You Can Run but You Can't Hide June 7 2026
Jun 07, 2026
Summary
God had called Moses to the mountain and Moses obeyed. While he was gone the people convinced Aaron that Moses wasn't coming back and that God had abandoned them. They demanded that Aaron have a golden calf made for them to worship. Aaron feeling the anger of the people was too afraid to stand against them and peer pressure. He gave in and the golden calf was created. Even though Moses had no idea what was going on at the base of the mountain God did and he told Moses he was going to wipe out the Isrealites and kill them all.
Detail
32:7-14 God says to Moses, that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust. They had turned aside out of the way. Sin is a departing from the way of duty into a by-path. They soon forgot God's works. He sees what they cannot discover, nor is any wickedness of the world hid from him. We could not bear to see the thousandth part of that evil which God sees every day. God expresses the greatness of his just displeasure, after the manner of men who would have prayer of Moses could save them from ruin; thus he was a type of Christ, by whose mediation alone, God would reconcile the world to himself. Moses pleads God's glory. The glorifying God's name, as it ought to be our first petition, and it is so in the Lord's prayer, so it ought to be our great plea. And God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer; for what he has promised he is able to perform. See the power of prayer. In answer to the prayers of Moses, God showed his purpose of sparing the people, as he had before seemed determined on their destruction; which change of the outward discovery of his purpose, is called repenting of the evil.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/exodus/32-7.htm