The spies have returned after 40 days of walking the land. The report they bring is initially true but the spirit they bring is the problem. When God and Moses commissioned this mission the spies were told to look around the land. “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and […]
This is the preparations for going into the Promised Land. God told Moses to send spies, one from each tribe, to check out the land and all it held. The spies that were sent were heads of the tribes. They were not trained in the art of spying but they were intelligent enough to understand […]
Miriam and Aaron confront Moses. They think he is too big for his britches and they aim to knock him down a peg or too. Miriam was the sister who watched over Moses while he lay in his basket of reeds. Miriam was the one who ran and got a “wet nurse” for Moses when […]
We last heard God promising Moses that He would send enough meat for the people to eat for a full month. He also promised that they would be sick of it by the end. God actually gave the people quail before. In Exodus 16 we see that the night before God provided manna for the […]
Moses was feeling the weight of caring for all the people. The people were feeling deprived of their lifestyle in Egypt. God addresses BOTH issues. God didn’t ignore the cries of any of His people. But there was a BIG difference between the cries of Moses and the cries of the people. God was not […]
