The people are in their final year of their wandering. They ask to go through Edom but the king says, No. They will have to find another way to enter the Promised Land. We are not given much information about the 40 years Israel spent wandering in the wilderness. In Numbers 33 we do see […]
God gave Moses specific directions regarding the people. Moses deviated from His command, and because of Moses’ sin, he and Aaron would both die before reaching the Promised Land. The people of Israel have been denied entry into the Promised Land because they refused to trust in the Lord. They are on their 40 year […]
The Lord is not finished showing the people whom HE has chosen. This time, it is proven by bearing fruit in an impossible place. I am no gardener! I tell my family that I have TEN black thumbs. I do have two plants that survive. They live on my porch and my only duty is […]
Moses is having trouble with usurpers again. Not Aaron and Miriam but a group of 250. They are doubting whom God chose. I SO GLAD I didn’t live in the time of Moses and the Law. I have been known to ‘work’ on the Sabbath. I have even been known to doubt that God really […]
The people are in rebellion against the Lord. They have believed the bad report. But when told they can’t go in, they try it on their own. And fail miserably! How many times have we cried, “I’ll do it” after being told we missed our chance? Or willfully pushing our way into places where we […]
