God Almighty's Cup Of WRATH
After Moses receives the 10 Commandments, God Almighty (Exod. 6:3) informs him the Israelites had fashioned a golden calf:
- “9 ...'I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that MY WRATH may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation'” (Exod. 32 NKJV).
After descending Mt. Sinai and dashing the stone tablets to pieces, Moses seized the idol; “burned it in the FIRE”; pulverized the effigy into a fine dust; sprinkled it on the water (cf. Numb. 19); and “made the children of Israel drink it” (vv. 19-20; cf. Prov. 1:31); then declared:
- “26 ...'Whoever is on the Lord’s side—come to me!' And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27 And he said to them, 'Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Let every man put his SWORD on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man KILL HIS BROTHER, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor [cf. Gen. 9:5; Rev. 13:10]”.' 28 So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day. 29 Then Moses said, 'Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother [cf. Matt. 10:35-37; 12:48-50; Luke 12:49-53; 14:26]'” (NKJV).
Deut. 9 is a parallel witness:
- “15 'So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with FIRE; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! … 21 Then I took YOUR SIN, the calf which you had made, and burned it with FIRE [cf. Deut. 7:5, 25] ... and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust [cf. 2 Kgs. 23:6, 15]; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain [cf. Numb. 19]. 22 Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you [sinned repeatedly and] provoked the Lord to WRATH. … 25 Thus I prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said HE WOULD [not “might”] DESTROY you [cf. Ezek. 5:11; 24:21]'” (NKJV).
Many interpret and associate the events depicted here with the start of Israel's Covenant relationship with Yahweh God Almighty (cf. Exod. 3:15; 6:3) . . . but they also describe and foretell THE END.
They link God Almighty's Command in Gen. 9:5, with the role the Levitical priests will perform in the 7th Millennium following the great tribulation (Matt. 24:21) . . . after He REGENERATES the dead in the Valley of Dry Bones (cf. Matt. 19:28; Tit. 3:5), and their SACRIFICES will be REQUIRED on His Holy Mountain:
- “5 'And ONLY YOUR BLOOD for your lives do I REQUIRE [cf. Exod. 20:40; Lev. 17:11, 14; Heb. 9:22] ... from the hand of every man's [priestly] brother I require the life of [another] man [cf. Exod. 32:27]'” (Gen. 9 YLT).
- “33 'As I live ... with FURY poured out [= WRATH - cf. Exod. 32:9; Deut. 9:22], I will rule over you. 34 I will bring you [Dry Bones] out from ... the countries where you are scattered [after the NUKES clearly described in Zech. 14 and Rev. 18]... 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness ... and there I will plead My case with you face to face. 36 Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt... 37 I will make you [Dry Bones] pass under the rod [= SWORD - cf. Psa. 2:8-9; Rev. 2:27; 12:5; 19:15], and I will bring you into the bond of the [NEW] COVENANT [cf. Jer. 31:31; John 13:34-35; 15:12-15; 1 John 3:16] ... 40 For on My holy mountain [= Zion = His Bride; cf. Psa. 132:13-14; Heb. 12:22; Rev. 21:2] ... there ALL the house of Israel ... shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I WILL REQUIRE your offerings and the firstfruits of your SACRIFICES, together with all your holy things [= bodies – cf. 6:25-30]. 41 I will accept you as a sweet aroma [cf. Eph. 5:2; 2 Cor. 15:2] when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be HALLOWED in you before the Gentiles [sic: nations]. 42 Then you shall know that I am the LORD... 43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were DEFILED; and you shall LOATHE yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed [cf. Ezek. 6:9; 36:31; Dan. 12:2; Jer. 2:26, 29]'” (Ezek. 20 NKJV).
It's all explained and proven in the attached witness below.
Praise Yahweh God Almighty . . . my Holy Abba Father!