ìAnd 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.î Exodus 32:1
Aaron was an instrumental part of all the plagues that befell Egypt, making him
extremely accountable before the LORD. But he buckled to the pressures of the
Israelites that wanted to return to Egypt. He told them to gather all their gold and
from that he would make them idols.
When the people saw the idols they shouted,ìÖThese be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt.î Exodus 32:4
Thus, they refused to glorify the God of Israel that had delivered them. Not only
that, but in doing so, they gave the glory to demonic idols that the LORD had
crushed during the plagues.
One of the idols that Aaron made was a golden calf. After he had made it, he
decided to make a NEW feast of his own choosing to worship the LORD.
ìAnd when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.î
Exodus 32:5
The following picture is probably very close to the Golden Calf that Aaron made.This (left) is called the ìApis
Bullî, and is another
representation of the sun god.
Like the monstranceís that
would come thousands of years
later, we have the crescent moon
supporting the sun disc. The
horns were also representative of
ìthe Horned godî.