A New World Golden Calf—Shall we Dance?

The monetary system of the world begins to tremble as the powers of world government take the reigns and dictate what will and what will not be available to the average hard-working Joe or Jill. Fear clutches at the hearts of even God-fearing souls who see nothing normal about the New Normal. Where is God anyway? People cling to their bank accounts, invest in gold, or play the stock market, thinking of their own security as the world spins out of control. What will be our future? Will there even be a future? People believed “the science” and took the shot. Now they claim everyone needs lab-cultivated meats because methane gas is a problem for the environment. Backyard chickens are now suspect. Baby formula has been destroyed. People are no longer static in the biological gender in which they were born. Children are pariahs to society and no longer welcome to this world. Abortions are blessed and provided for. And no wonder, the world is an unfriendly place for the innocent and the God-fearing.

But what if we step back a moment to view the polarity that is taking place? What if we could see everything from the eyes of the Universe and God? What would we see?

And what do I see? I suddenly see that there is darkness and there is light. But that light is no longer visible to those who have stepped into the empty chaotic void created by the so-called leaders of this New World Order. There is light, but only to those who dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High (Psa. 91). The light is there, but only to the eye of faith and the heart of willing obedience to the eternal principles established by the Creator in His love for mankind—and it is not about making money or temporal prosperity. That most likely will come to an end, and once again the chosen will look to the Great Hand that gave manna in the wilderness as they make their exile out from under the evil regime that demands control of everything and everybody. And it will be a test of the wilderness and of complete trust in the great YHVH who continues to send the rainbow to assure those of us that believe in Him that he still runs the Universe. But how many will face the complete failure of this world’s provision for their needs without selling out to those who dictate their captivity? If we could only see that the world in all it’s splendor awaits the great Day of Judgment. Better to lack for the moment than bow to the Golden Calf, which is what this is all about.

I mean, what was the Golden Calf all about anyway? Was it really about a desire to worship an idol? It was for sure about idolatry! But think about the following and see if there might be some idolatry involved in the way we sustain ourselves today?

The sons of Jacob went to Egypt and stayed there and increased in number until they were promised success in exchange for employment—A decent lifestyle in exchange for hard labor. It became more and more exacting until they had every aspect of their lives under the hand of the Egyptian whip. It turned into what we call slavery little by little just as you can boil a frog little by little and he will not jump out of the pan. Soon they got to the point where they ask themselves how they would eat if they did not obey their taskmasters? But, they cried out to God and God heard (Exo 2:23) and sent Moses to deliver them. But their way of thinking was changed by their dedication to work in exchange for sustenance. It was all about work. And later, after having the tremendous deliverance at the Red Sea, when Moses went up into the mountain of God to bring down the 10 commandments in tablet form and stayed a bit longer than they anticipated, they built a golden calf (which showed their dependence on the false god of money and slave labor) by which they could save themselves by their own provision just as they were accustomed to doing. They had been slaves too long and when their physical leader upon whom they depended, disappeared, they turned back to the lifestyle that they knew. Was it just about idolatry? Well, yes! But what is the full picture of idolatry? Bowing down to gold to save our lives? Provision for ourselves apart from trusting the Hand of the Eternal? And how many more times did Israel ask to return to Egypt that they not “die in the wilderness?” It is true that Israel was tested as are we even now:

“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord does man live.” (Deut 8:3, Koren Jerusalem Bible)

So what of us today? If suddenly the expressed goal of the so called “Elite,” that people will “own nothing and be happy” scares us all to the place where we will knuckle under and take the whip on our backs—repeated shots, the countless nonsensical rules of Climate Change, the transgender agenda where people must refuse to recognize a man as a man and a woman as a woman just to save their skin, or go to jail for being “racist”–then where will we be? Where will it all end? If we take even one step down the path of their indoctrination, the second step will be at a greater cost and so on until we stand under the whip of the Egyptian slave masters once again. And this time there will be no way out. It is time to make a choice.

As I said at the beginning, there is darkness and there is light.

“Choose you this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15).

Many of us feel that these things are wrong, yet will we go over to their side just to save our jobs? our skin? Our families? Our lifestyles? To choose to stand in the light is to throw all our trust on the Invisible God of the Universe and His promises, some of which we do not know personally because we are accustomed to the life of providing for ourselves in the way the world has mandated. What if there is no way to provide for ourselves? What if All we have is hope in the Eternal? Will He once again sustain us with manna? Do we have enough Emunah (faith) to step through the door into that unknown Shelter of the Most High and listen for His voice—waiting upon Him for our every need? My friends, it is coming to that. It is not going to be easy, but it will be worth it.

After all the only other option is joining in with those who are dancing around the Golden Calf while the dark rulers of this world control every aspect of their lives. Many have unwittingly drunk the Kool-aid, so to speak. But though a first wrong choice has been made, there is still time to turn around and embrace truth and light and the Shelter that is promised!

It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it!