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                                                                                        "Moses Intercedes"

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In Exodus when the people. Made the Golden calf The Lord was ready to strike them down and Moses interceded by asking God to put their sins on him👇🏽⛓️‍💥

Exo 32:31  And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

Exo 32:32  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

❄️God told Moses each person who sins against him, will be blotted our of his book.

🌟Exodus 32:33  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

(Exodus 32:1-35 is the story behind what occurred.)

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To paraphrase: While Moses was at the top of the mountain recieving the Ten Commandments from God, the people below became restless and talked Aaron into building them a golden calf.  Aaron, Moses's brother, and chosen by God to assist Moses, should have known better than to fall into the sin with the people.  Instead of attempting to talk them into obedience and waiting for Moses to come back, he tells everyone to collect their gold jewelry and he melts it down, then forms the golden calf.

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When Moses sees this he goes back and ask God to forgive them of this sin they have committed. Then Moses asked God to forgive them by removing his name out of the God's book.  And God answered him in Exodus 32:33.

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Exodus 32:33  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

What we need to realize is there is a book of life that our names are recorded in, in heaven. If we live for God and belong to him, our names are written in. Those who do not live for the Lord and have him in their lives for whatever reason, will not have their name written in the book of life.

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The following scriptures speak of the book of life, in Psalms 69:28, David is praying to the Lord and mentions his enemies and their sin in his prayer relatated to the book of life.

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Psalms 69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 

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​Ezekiel 18:4  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. 

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Psa 109:13  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 
Psa 109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 

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Revelation 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

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End times, those whose names are not written in the book of life will worship the first beast. We know that if their names are not written in the book of life, they do not belong to the Lord.

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Revelation 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 

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The scriptures show that there are more than one book that our lives and works are recorded in. Something to be mindful of. It should be an incentive for us to watch everything we say and do.  Remember in school when talking or doing some other misbehavior, we would get marks counted against us? This is one mark we do not want to count against us. It is a matter of life and death, eternally.

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These scriptures, especially, Exodus 32:33 show us that no one will be able to stand before God for their loved ones. Parents cannot stand for their children, grandchildren, spouse, or anyone else. Every person who has ever walked this earth; past, present, and future, will stand before God on judgement day.

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​The next time Moses interced for the people, was in the wilderness when the people were complainging about going into a new land where they would be killed by giants, they hurled accusations at God by claiming that he brought them out of Eygpt just to be killed by the giants.

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​​Numbers 14:12-24 NLT

Numbers 14:12 I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!

[13] But Moses objected. What will the Egyptians think when they hear about it? he asked the LORD. They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing your people from Egypt. 

[14] Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. 

[15] Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 

[16] The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.

[17] Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said, 

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18] The LORD is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations.

[19] In keeping with your magnificent, unfailing love, please pardon the sins of this people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt. 

[20] Then the LORD said, I will pardon them as you have requested. 

[21] But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD's glory, 

[22] not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.

 [23] They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it. 

[24] But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land. 

The difference between Moses’s intercession for the people in Exodus 32:33, where he ask the Lord to blot his name out of the Lord's book, and Numbers 14:12-24, where he speaks to the Lord of his goal for the people versus what the Eygptians might say. Is, he was not trying to place himself in the line of fire and "take one for the team." He already knew that whoever sins, they alone have to answer to the Lord. He was reasonable as he spoke with the Lord, looking at the matter from different points of view.  This approach did make a difference in that the Lord did not strike everyone of them dead on the spot, though he did send out plagues on them.

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It is a lesson learner for us as well. We can intercede in prayer for someone, but  be reasonalbe in our conversation with the Lord. We cannot stand for them on judgement day, but we can pray for things to turn around for the better in their lives.

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