The Golden Calf of Aaron and the Lamb of God
Homiletic Monthly
Exodus 32:1-6
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron…


1. The calf of gold was made of earth's choicest valuables. The Lamb of God was heaven's greatest treasure.

2. The calf of gold was made to make God visible. Christ was God manifest in the flesh.

3. The calf of gold was made to meet a seeming extremity. Christ came when man was lost beyond hope.

4. The calf of gold was made to go before the children of Israel to the land of promise. Christ is the way from sin and bondage to a land glorious beyond the imagination of men to conceive.

(Homiletic Monthly.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

WEB: When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."




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