The Face of Moses
The Face of MosesExodus 34:29-35 I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34. Tonight we come to the end of our study of the golden calf incident. These very last verses, these verses at the end of chapter 34, exalt the mediator Moses. Now this began in Exodus 32:1, “When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make us a God who will go before us.” They didn't think Moses was coming back so they thought they needed another mediating leader and so they asked for a statue instead of Moses. “As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Even in English, that translates to be a pretty cold way to talk about a man who has risked his…