Numbers 14:1-35
Th: God’s love, faithfulness, goodness, patience, mercy, justice and Moses intercession all shown in this chapter. Miracles displayed in Egypt do not equate to long term FAITH in God.
Make me think of our journey on earth to the promised land of new heavens and new earth.
Choice: be thankful and on the side of God or rebel against Him and face death (physical and spiritual) as a consequence. If God is for us, who can be against us. Not happy, ask or plea God with respect like the examples of no meat in the desert. Ask, plea God with due respect not rebel against Him.
the very thing I heard you say:
29. In this wilderness your bodies will fallevery one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
30. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31. As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
32. But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
33. Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
34. For forty years one year for each of the forty days you explored the landyou will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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 wilderness; here they will die.”