Exodus 32:30-33:11
Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. but I will not go with you, because you are stiff-nicked people. My angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.
Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.
Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the "tent of meeting." Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.
Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.
Danger of wearing Ornaments:
God's original plan and purpose is for man to use jewelries, gold and silver as means of exchange, just as we used Euro, Pound sterling, Dollars, Naira and so on. When the children of Israel left Egypt, the Lord asked them to demand for areas of their labor from Egyptians, He wanted the Israelite's to use the treasures they had gathered to buy things from other nations as they proceed to the promised Land. They will need to buy weapons, build houses, build the Lord temple.
The cessation of the practice with Moses appears to have lasted for an indeterminate period with amulets in general going underground or, more correctly, under garment. Most of the Anglo-Saxon people no longer understand the origin of the practice.
Why?
God listened to the prayer of Moses, but God will punish those people at his time according to what they did.
God won't go with them, instead sent his angel go before them. In order avoid Israelite be destroyed. No one is righteous on the world, all are sinner.
God face to face speak to Moses, by the way of explanation 'clearly and not in riddles.'
How?
God is good to man, but people usually use it in wicked way for their sin.
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