Divine Anger Management

I am working on a series of the “Ten Greatest Biblical Dummy Spits” (and I would be delighted to receive your suggestions via comments below – and I will credit your input)

Moses was an A-grade dummy spitter…..and as a result suffered his fair share of divine anger management. Moses killed a man in a fit of rage, disobeyed direct instructions from God and at various times threw his toys out of the cot. (an Australian-ism….sorry)

Arguably his most famous episode however was this one……

Moses disappears up Mount Sinai for 40 days and returns with the Ten Commandments – written by God himself on stone tablets…also provided by the creator. When Moses comes down the mountain he has a little WTF moment when he discovers the people of Israel, with the assistance of his dopey brother Aaron, have made for themselves a golden cow that they have decided will be their new God. (see rules number 1 and 2 - Exodus 20:3-4)

Moses was angry that 20% of the new rules were already broken and in a fit of rage he smashed the two tablets to pieces.

But his punishment for this little outburst was…..he had to cut out two new tablets, walk all the way back up the mountain – lugging said tablets, take dictation and write the commandments himself – in stone – and struggle back down the mountain again.

He looked after the two new ones – then he hid them in a special box and carted them around everywhere. (2 Chron 5:10) Perhaps this was because Moses’ writing was not as neat as God’s and he was embarrassed……