In Exodus 32, Aaron and the people sinned by making a golden calf and worshipping it. They rejected the entirety of the first table of God’s law in this action. While God has spared most of the people, there have still been severe consequences.
And yet, what we see in Exodus 33 and 34 is that God has not utterly abandoned His people. Moses intercedes before God on behalf of the people, and the Lord is gracious to hear him. As He reveals Himself to Moses in part (Moses could not see the fullness of God’s glory and live), the grace and faithfulness of God is evident in spite of the faithlessness of His people. He even renews the covenant with them by giving them two new tablets, which contained the contents of the others which Moses had broken.
We are drawn to so many truths in this passage–the character of God, the invincibility of a greater Intercessor to whom Moses points (Christ Himself) and the hope which He has secured for His people.
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