Down From The Mount

Are smashed tablets in our future?

Yesterday, I posted an instantaneous thought on Facebook, writing:

“Sometimes it seems that half of America is fighting to remain free, while the other half is fighting to pick their next ruler.”

I have been thinking about that since I mentioned how closely our situation mirrors that of the Israelites waiting at the base of Mt. Sinai for Moses to return. Moses was up there for forty days, and the Israelites were so convinced that Moses and God had abandoned them.

But it was not just the Israelites losing faith, they had some help from a group of Egyptian outcasts, the erev rav (“mixed multitude”), who tagged along with the Israelites when they left their bondage in Egypt.

These Egyptians faked their faith in God, and when Moses did not show when they expected him, they convinced the people that God had failed them, Moses was dead and that they needed a new leader. Terrified, the Jewish people gathered around Aaron, Moses’ brother, and demanded that he make them a new leader.

In their defense, the Israelite people only wanted a new leader to replace the assumed dead Moses, not a new god, but when the golden calf emerged (how it was fashioned is a matter of debate), but the people either appeared to, or did begin to worship it.

Then I thought of how the conversations about Moses’ return must have gone. Given human nature, one can imagine that the closer his date of return came, the more unease infiltrated those conversations. Doubt certainly would have transformed into disbelief and near panic as the day they thought he should have returned came and went.

The argumentation for the anti-constitutional, anti-God, anti-trad values, anti-everything Democrats and their Methuselah–like leader seems a lot like I envision the pre-Moses return was. Lots of abandonment of faith and a surplus of fear combined to lead to some unbelievably dreadful things.

The progressive left makes a lot of noise that sounds like freedom, but it really is nothing but noise. The things they do prove they are simply clamoring for some new king to take care of them and a new golden calf to worship.

It is also instructive to understand what happened after Moses made the scene. The Bible details three things happened after Moses smashed the tablets God gave him:

• Moses ground the golden calf into a powder, mixed it with water and gave it to the worshippers to drink, thereby killing them.

• He then commanded the tribe of Levi, who had remained faithful to him, to further seek out any worshippers and annihilate them.

• God brought a plague on the Jews, killing thousands more.

While I know God often chooses imperfect and broken people to deliver his messages and I do not think Trump is Moses, I do believe God does not abide being mocked.

At least in a political and policy sense, I do believe there will be a reckoning. They will be fed the policies and edicts they created. They will be identified as the anti-Americans they are, and they will suffer the consequences of the plague they brought upon this country.

As a response to my hastily posted thought, a friend remarked, “Resurrecting the fairytale society we thought existed is irrational. In fact, it is a waste of your time.”

There is a lot of truth in that comment.

I recalled what C.S. Lewis said about being good, that “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”

That is what we are seeing now. We are being shown how hard it is to be the America we were intended to be. All this is less about what we were and what we have become than it is what we can be in the future.