IDOLS OF POWER '"'…make us gods who will go before us…'" Ex 32:1

[APOSTLE B. OSEI-BOBIE]

"When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from 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'" (Ex 32:1 NIV).

They couldn't handle two things: sensory-deprivation and delay. Moses couldn't be seen and he was too long.

If our faith in God is sustained by sense-knowledge, even if it is by signs and wonders, we falter when the evidence of his presence subsides or stops. God tests us. This is when
we are vulnerable and look for other sources for a sense of protection and
well-being.

Hezekiah was faced with a dilemma – the forces of the Assyrian army were breathing down his neck. But in his moment of crisis, "…God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that
He might know all that was in his heart" (2 Chr 32:31 NKJV). God withdrew
to see whether he would resort to military alliances - whether he would depend
on the strength of man, or God – on the visible, or the invisible.