God rejects Israel | Moses asked for too much to carry - Israel a burdensome stone

The only reason God chose the people of Israel was that Heber (from whence the word hebrew) did not corrupt his tongue at Babel millenia before Moses. That means that Heber did not participate in the one world religion of Nimrud at that time. That set him apart for God to call him and his progeny for God's purposes.

When (see Exodus 32) Moses was on the mount with the Lord, Israel immediately departed from the Lord and sacrificed to Satan. In that they had strayed into the path of Nimrud. God offered to destroy them and give Moses a people that would be loyal to God but Moses refused (Exodus 32:10). That burden was too heavy for Moses as he complained to the Lord a year later. The die was fixed then and it would come to pass that, when the sceptre was given to Our Lord Jesus Christ when He appeared (promised in Genesis 49:10), the Israelites would cease forever from being God's people. From then on the faithful Christians are God's only people.


God rejects Israel one year before Moses cannot carry that burden any longer, 1491 B.C. - 2513 A.M.


EXODUS 32
CHAPTER XXXII.

The people fall into idolatry.  Moses prayeth for them.  He breaketh the tables: destroyeth the idol: blameth Aaron, and causeth many of the idolaters to be slain.

1 And the people seeing *that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: **Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.
2 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden ear-rings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.
3 And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the ear-rings to Aaron.
4 *And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf.  And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying: To-morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.
6 And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace-victims, *and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: *Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.
8 They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: *These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
9 And again the Lord said to Moses: *I see that this people is stiff-necked:
10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.
11 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: *Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: *I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever.
14 And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.
15 And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides,
16 And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven in the tables.
17 And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.
18 But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of singers.
19 And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount:
20 And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, *and beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.
21 And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?
22 And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, *that they are prone to evil.
23 They said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.
24 And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.
25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies)
26 Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord's side, let him join with me.  And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:
27 And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, *and friend, and neighbour.
28 And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.
29 And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the Lord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be given to you.
30 And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.
31 And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,
32 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.
33 And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:
34 But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee.  And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.
35 The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.
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* 1:  A.M. 2513. --- ** Acts vii. 40.
4:  Ps. cv. 19.
6:  1 Cor. x. 7.
7:  Deut. ix. 12.
8:  3 Kings xii. 28.
9:  Infra xxxiii. 3.; Deut. ix. 13.
11:  Num. xiv. 13.; Ps. cv. 23.
13:  Gen. xii. 7. and xv. 7. and xlviii. 16.
20:  Deut. ix. 21.
22:  1 John v. 19.
27:  Deut. xxxiii. 9.
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Moses rejects Israel - Moses asked for too much to carry a year before - Israel a burdensome stone, 1490 B.C. - 2514 A.M.


NUMBERS 11
CHAPTER XI.

The people murmur, and are punished with fire.  God appointeth seventy ancients for assistants to Moses.  They prophesy.  The people have their fill of flesh, but forthwith many die of the plague.

1 In the mean time* there arose a **murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue.  And when the Lord heard it he was angry.  ***And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.
2 And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.
3 And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.
4 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: *Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free-cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6 Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.
7 *Now the manna was like coriander-seed, of the colour of bdellium.
8 And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof, of the taste of bread tempered with oil.
9 And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.
10 Now Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one at the door of his tent.  And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable.
11 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? wherefore do I not find favour before thee? and why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom, as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? they weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
14 I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
15 But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
16 And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,
17 That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
18 And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to-morrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say; who will give us flesh to eat? it was well with us in Egypt.  That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat:
19 Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.
20 But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?
21 And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?
22 *Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered together to fill them?
23 And the Lord answered him: *Is the hand of the Lord unable?  Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.
24 Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord, and assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to stand about the tabernacle.
25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men.  And when the spirit had rested on them, they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards.
26 Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for they also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.
27 And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.
28 Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses, forbid them.
29 But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me?  O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit?
30 And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.
31 *And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one day's journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.
32 The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the next day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they dried them round about the camp.
33 *As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.
34 And that place was called The graves of lust: for there they buried the people that had lusted.  And departing from the graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.

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* 1:  A.M. 2514. --- ** Infra xxxiii. 16.; Ps. lxxvii. 19.; 1 Cor. x. 10. --- *** Ps. lxxvii. 21.
4:  1 Cor. x. 3.
7:  Exod. xvi. 14.; Ps. lxxvii. 24.; Wisd. xvi. 20.; John vi. 31.
22:  John vi. 10.
23:  Isa. lix. 1.
31:  Ps. lxxvii. 26. and 27.
33:  Ps. lxxvii. 30.
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