Message #1601

[cizz]

Okay we have reached a part in this example that takes strength and patience to look at...

Exd 32:26        Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on the LORD'S side? [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

Levi as in the priests...

Exd 32:27           And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Okay now I wonder, 'thus saith the Lord God of Israel' ...are those people considered Israel seeing how nobody at that point wants to own them?  God said they were Moses' and Moses says they are God's and then we have both God and Moses calling them 'this people' like the people are now disowned and orphaned   

Moses just ordered to be done what he had feared God was going to do Himself and Moses called it evil that God had that same desire ...



Exd 32:28        And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

They did according to who's word?     the word of Moses .... why didn't Moses take his own advise that he gave God and repent of having that in his own heart, then turn away from it? 


Exd 32:29        For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.


Consecrate yourselves... consecrate, like set apart  I thought God did that?