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WAIT AND WATCH

Jesus said, “Behold, I am coming soon!” (Rev 22:12) As we see it, that seems a very long time ago, almost 2000 years. But the promise of his return still stands and the events in the world are lining up to show us that he will come back, and come sooner than we might expect.

In a similar way to the way Jesus has gone into heaven and will return at the appointed time, so Moses went up the mountain of God where he received the law for Israel. Like Jesus, he had also been gone a long time while the children of Israel waited at the bottom of the mountain. “When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, ‘Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.'” (Exo 32:1) When Moses came down the mountain he saw “that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies.” (v.25)

Let us not give up our self control and patience as Israel did while they waited for Moses. Instead, as we wait for Jesus, let us keep watch. Let us both watch for his return, and watch the way we behave ourselves.

Robert Prins

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christadelphianvideo

CAUGHT OUT

If you had been in the middle of the best party you had ever experienced – the singing, dancing, drinking, food, laughter, and lust were all just to your taste, and someone turned up to put a stop to it all, how would you feel toward them?

This is just what happened to the Israelites when Moses came down the mountain to discover them all having a wild party around a golden calf idol. No doubt there would have been many who despised him for stopping their fun. But there were also some who realised the sin of the situation they had put themselves in, and who, despite what they had done, turned back to God.

“Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, ‘Whoever is for the LORD, come to me!’ And the Levites rallied to him.” (Exo 32:25-26).

We all have a choice. Each one of us gets caught out doing something we shouldn’t do at some stage in our lives. How are we to respond? Will we despise the goody-two-shoes who caught us out? Or will we take the opportunity to be corrected, to respond and to change?

The Levites rallied to Moses. Are we humble enough to do the same?

Robert Prins

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