The story, part 6 -- Wanderings: Israel's Long Road Trip

The Story
Wanderings: Israel's Long Road Trip

God's upper story. God wants to be with us,
and will pay any price to make it so.

The sin of Complaining; man's fickle heart

Numbers 11:1 And the people complained in the
hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes; and
when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled,
and the fire of the LORD burned among them, and
consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Numbers 11:4 The rabble with them began to
crave other food, and again the Israelites started
wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat!

5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no
cost-also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions
and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite;
we never see anything but this manna!"

Numbers 11:10 Moses heard the people of every
family wailing, each at the entrance to his tent.
The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses
was troubled.

Numbers 12:1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk
against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he
had married a Cushite. 2 "Has the LORD spoken
only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also
spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.

Numbers 13:27 They gave Moses this account:
"We went into the land to which you sent us, and
it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
12 spies, and the effect of our outlook and words…

28 But the people who live there are powerful, and
the cities are fortified and very large. We even
saw descendants of Anak there….

31 But the men who had gone up with him said,
"We can't attack those people; they are stronger
than we are."

32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad
report about the land they had explored. They
said, "The land we explored devours those living
in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

33 We saw the Nephilim there…. We seemed like
grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the
same to them."

Numbers 14:1 That night all the people of the
community raised their voices and wept aloud.
2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and
Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, "If
only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!

3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only
to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and
children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be
better for us to go back to Egypt?" 4 And they
said to each other, "We should choose a leader
and go back to Egypt."

Numbers 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell face
down in front of the whole Israelite assembly….

6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh,
who were among those who had explored the
land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire
Israelite assembly, "The land we passed through
and explored is exceedingly good.

8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us
into that land, a land flowing with milk and
honey, and will give it to us.

9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not
be afraid of the people of the land, because we
will swallow them up. Their protection is gone,
but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of
them!

Numbers 14:10 But the whole assembly talked
about stoning them…
The people turn away from God: disaster ensues…

Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the Tent
of Meeting to all the Israelites.

11 (God speaks) "How long will these people treat
me with contempt? How long will they refuse to
believe in me in spite of all the miraculous sings I
have performed among them?"

Numbers 14:20 The LORD replied, "I have
forgiven them, as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as
surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the
LORD fills the whole earth,

22 not one of the men who saw my glory and the
miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the
desert but who disobeyed me and tested me ten
times-

23 not one of them will ever see the land I
promised on oath to their forefathers. No one who
has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

24 But because my servant Caleb has a different
spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring
him into the land he went to, and his descendants
will inherit it.

Numbers 14:35 "I, the LORD, have spoken, and I
will surely do these things to this whole wicked
community, which has banded together against
me. They will meet their end in this desert; here
they will die!

The book of Numbers: presumption and unbelief

The story, part 6 -- Wanderings: Israel's Long Road Trip

The story, part 6 -- Wanderings: Israel's Long Road Trip

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