Exodus 32:7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
There are several different reasons why the tsunami of unbelief sweeps so many individuals into the net, some of which we will address later, but the most prominent one by far is the gravitational pull of the masses of people, contrary to the truth. There’s a game that is often played: “Follow the leader” which must never be adopted by the Christian, except the leader Is Christ, or one of His faithful, ordained servants.
At Mount Sinai there were persons who originally had no intention of not believing, but when they were bombarded with the sheer numbers of unbelievers, a magnetic pull was exerted, which often bypasses reason and sound judgement in favor of popular sentiment and the rest is history. The same wave of unbelief gripped the multitudes in Noah’s day as he preached of a coming flood.
It is true that rain had never fallen upon the earth up to that time. But, even when the unexplainable mystery of the animals going meekly into the ark, in exact order, occurred, popular sentiment against the evidence of their senses led most of them to reason away what they were actually seeing and a tsunami of unbelief swept about seven billion people into an eternity of eternal night.
Genesis 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!