"[The Lord is] not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
When Moses came down from the mount, and found Israel worshiping the golden calf as the god that brought them out of Egypt, he stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me." (Exodus 32:26)
If only Israel had been swift to hear, they would have recognized in this call an opportunity to discard their sin and renounce it. The call was not: "Whoever has not worshiped this golden calf, come to me." Whosoever would might come. If Israel had only risen as one man and said: "We have sinned, but we want to be on the Lord's side. Just as we are, we come," how differently that day would have ended. There would have been no need for the sons of Levi to draw the sword and smite their brethren. God's call is still to sinners: "Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me."
Naked, as Israel was then, caught red-handed in sin, with death overhanging their guilty heads, they may come to God and find immediate acceptance and full salvation.--Present Truth, September 10, 1903--Exodus 32:26
E.J. Waggoner