What Does "Naked" Mean in Exodus 32:25?

[OLD SARGE]

The fact that the golden calf related to Egyptian gods and the only rituals they were familiar with were Egyptian. Egyptians practiced orgies as part of their worship of idols. If they were just naked in some form they might just be chastised. Every pagan society that I have ever read about either had temple prostitutes or had open orgies as part of the worship especially fertility gods. May have happened for war gods as well to give the warriors one last thrill before death and to impregnate a woman with their replacement. Look at how many times sex was involved when Israel mixed God with pagan religions. The root of all that is here. The fact they mixed God with the pagan Egyptian gods is why He was going to destroy them. Had it just been sexual immorality before the Law was received there may have been a way to cleanse themselves. Tied to the mixture of the true God with a false one was worthy of death. We need to be careful that we do not the same thing though much New Age theology and Kundalini spirits have already invaded many churches.

 

[OLD SARGE]

The fact that the golden calf related to Egyptian gods and the only rituals they were familiar with were Egyptian. Egyptians practiced orgies as part of their worship of idols. If they were just naked in some form they might just be chastised. Every pagan society that I have ever read about either had temple prostitutes or had open orgies as part of the worship especially fertility gods. May have happened for war gods as well to give the warriors one last thrill before death and to impregnate a woman with their replacement. Look at how many times sex was involved when Israel mixed God with pagan religions. The root of all that is here. The fact they mixed God with the pagan Egyptian gods is why He was going to destroy them. Had it just been sexual immorality before the Law was received there may have been a way to cleanse themselves. Tied to the mixture of the true God with a false one was worthy of death. We need to be careful that we do not the same thing though much New Age theology and Kundalini spirits have already invaded many churches.

It was a problem that infected them persistently as it does the Church today.

Numbers 25

1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.

4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.

6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

 

[Scripture More Accurately]

The fact that the golden calf related to Egyptian gods and the only rituals they were familiar with were Egyptian. Egyptians practiced orgies as part of their worship of idols. If they were just naked in some form they might just be chastised. Every pagan society that I have ever read about either had temple prostitutes or had open orgies as part of the worship especially fertility gods. May have happened for war gods as well to give the warriors one last thrill before death and to impregnate a woman with their replacement. Look at how many times sex was involved when Israel mixed God with pagan religions. The root of all that is here. The fact they mixed God with the pagan Egyptian gods is why He was going to destroy them. Had it just been sexual immorality before the Law was received there may have been a way to cleanse themselves. Tied to the mixture of the true God with a false one was worthy of death. We need to be careful that we do not the same thing though much New Age theology and Kundalini spirits have already invaded many churches.

I have had quite a number of people argue strongly with me that everything about the worship was godly Israelite worship except that it was directed to the calf. They have strongly objected to anybody saying that there was anything ungodly about the dancing, singing, or playing that they did before the idol other than that it was directed to the idol instead of to God.