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Numbers 11 discussed Fire from the Lord. The people again complained. God sent fire to punish them. When they cried out to the Lord to have mercy on them the fire stopped. God sent quail (v.4-35) Again, they complained. They thought about the food they had back in Egypt. They were tired of manna! They wanted something else. They got quail, but they had to pay a price for it. God struck them with a plague. The place is called Kibroth Hattavah, because there they buried the people who craved other food. Let us be careful to be thankful for what we have. Sometimes, we crave for something that we don't really need and we have to pay the price for it.
In Numbers 12, Mirian and Aaron opposed Moses because of Zipporah, his Cushite wife. They were jealous. Why did God always speak through Moses and not through them? The Lord heard that. Verse 3 described Moses as a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth! Moses did not take opposition by Aaron and Miriam into his own hands. God dealt with Miriam and Aaron. Miriam got leprosy. Aaron begged for her so did Moses since they were all brothers and sister. God told them to isolate Miriam for seven days and she was healed. We should learn to depend on God and not on ourselves to solve our problems, the way Moses did. We should learn to be humble. You have remember Moses led two million people, yet he was humble.
In Numbers 13, God told Moses to get a party of twelve spies one from each tribe to explore Canaan, among them were Joshua (also known as Hoshea) and Caleb. Moses gave Hoshea the name Joshua (v. 16). They were to do a reconnaisance of Canaan and report back to Moses what the land, people, the towns and soil were like.
Verse 26-33 The twelve spies came to Moses and said that that the land was good flowing with milk and honey, meaning crops and vegetation was wonderful, that was
the good news. The bad news was that the people there were powerful and the cities fortified and very large. It would be impossible to conquer the people. They had forgotten who God was and the promises he made to them (Exo 22.27-33), that God's angel would be there with them, and God would send his terror before them so that they could conquer the inhabitants in Canaan. Caleb said that they should go up and posses the land, for they could do it. The ten spies kept on telling the people the bad news, everyone believed them.
What can we learn from Numbers 13 and 14? It is through the eyes of faith that all things are possible with God. (Mat 19.26). If the Israelites had faith, they would have reached Canaan which would have taken weeks to get took them 40 years. When we have faith and we obey God things get done if not we WASTE our lives wandering aimlessly like the Israelites. What is the secret of the Christian life, it boils down to two words TRUST and OBEY.
Numbers 13 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Guzik on Numbers 13
Numbers 12 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Guzik on Numbers 12
Peter Pett on Numbers 11-19
Numbers 11 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Guzik on Numbers 11
Peter Pett on Numbers 11-19
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Guzik on Numbers
Peter Pett on Numbers 1-10
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