Exodus 33:1-4

 

You know God is angry with you, when He says I will not accompany you, lest I exterminate you. It is time to be afraid, very afraid and make amends.

 

Below I quote some lines from Exodus, from The New American Bible, in which Yahweh calmly lays out his anger against the erring Hebrews: “The Lord said to Moses, ‘You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, are to go up from here to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I would give to their descendants. Driving out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, I will send an angel before you to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might exterminate you on the way. When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one wore his ornaments.”

 

My response: God had promised to show them the land of milk and honey, and He kept his promise, sending his angel to lead the people to the promised land. But, their state of stench and corruption was so offensive, God was tempted to just exterminate them, which He did not want to do, so He just stayed away from them until His wrath cooled, or they came less corrupt so that they were worthy to have Yahweh in their camp again.

 

God will not tolerate what is morally or spiritually wicked to come near De. Nor can De go among them until they are unclean no longer.

 

Here are these same lines from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it.

 

And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite and Jebusite: Unto a land flowing with milk and honey : for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

 

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him ornaments.”

 

My response: It might seem that God’s chosen people were imperialists colonizing a land of milk and honey in which many tribes of foreigners resided and farmed, and they were pushed out by Yahweh. Does that seem fair, a Leftists or atheist might inquire? Well, if these to be vanquished and banished tribes were devil-worshipers, or wicked people, then it might seem justifiable.