Exodus 32

Exodus 32:1-6:
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

==Exodus 32:5-6:

5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Walter Kaiser: “After making an attempt to honor the Lord with their offerings, the people satisfied their own desires and proceeded to ‘indulge in revelry.’ The verb sahaq signifies drunken, immoral orgies and sexual play” (p. 478); all of which God saw, and is spelled out succinctly in Exod. 32:7,9: “The Lord spoke to Moses (up on the mountain): Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly … I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.”(v 7)

==exodus 32:7-10:

Exodus 32:7-10:
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. “They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’” The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people. “Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

Then Moses pleaded the case for the people, and “The LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.” Exodus 32:14

There is a popular and perilous rumour around, inspired by the late Myles Munroe and Benny Hinn. It suggests that the sovereign God requires man’s permission to do anything on earth. Munroe claimed that the only creature with authority on earth is mankind, ‘a spirit in a dirt body.’ Once, when hosted by Benny Hinn, Munroe insisted that because God is a spirit without a body, he cannot operate on earth without permission from humanity. ‘Any spirit without a body is illegal on planet earth’ he says, ‘even God Himself is illegal on earth.’ How then does God get the license to operate on earth? Munroe’s reply: ‘Through prayers’. -For Munroe, prayer is ‘man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth’s affairs.’ Indeed, he belives ‘God could do nothing on earth without a human giving Him access.’
--Joseph Byamukama