Day 059 (Numbers 11-13) - Year 7
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Hey, Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Yesterday, the camp set out for the first time in a year, and today we saw a series of struggles with complaints, gossip, and unbelief.
We open today with grumbling. We don't know what the grumbling in these first three verses is about, but it seems to be unwarranted because in his anger, God sends a fire around the edges of the camp.
Then they start grumbling again about food. Their complaints here aren't related to an unmet need.
God has given them manna to eat. This is over a want.
It's not desperation. It's entitlement.
This is about doubting God's goodness in their lives. He provided for them and they didn't think it was sufficient.
Once again, they look longingly back at Egypt and they don't realize that whatever God calls you to endure with him is better than any kind of abundance without him. And let's be honest, it wasn't like they had abundance in Egypt anyway.
They're romanticizing the past.
In 1120, God calls their complaining a rejection of him.
That really makes me want to guard my words.
Moses is stressed out by all their crying
and he takes his frustration out on God.
But God isn't his problem.
The people are his problem.
Maybe you can relate. Anyway, Moses intercedes for the people and God isn't his problem.
The people are his problem. Maybe you can relate.
Anyway, Moses intercedes for the people and God addresses the real problem. His solution involves not only a delegation of responsibility, which Moses can do, but also a distribution of God's spirit, which only God can do.
When God the Spirit is distributed among them, they begin to prophesy. What does this mean?
Prophecy is truth-telling.