Moses found the Israelites revolting
by Damien F. Mackey Aaron hilariously (if it weren’t so serious) replies (Exodus 32:24): “So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’, and they gave it to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf ! ’” As if the end result were pure accident. Introduction Once mighty Egypt, now - following on from the devastating Plagues and the Exodus - would cease to be a power for a long time, virtually disappearing from the Bible for roughly half a millennium. And, despite the fact that the Exodus Israelites had, in their first encounter with an enemy, defeated the Amalekites at Rephidim ( Beer Karkom ), the Amalekites would continue for that period of time to be a dominant power in the land of Canaan. They may well even have overrun fallen Egypt, as the warlike Hyksos people, referred to by some (e.g. Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky) as Egypt’s “Eleventh Plague”. The great man, Moses, who had been commissioned t...
