Today,
reply is on GOD revealed as sovereign by judgment, and the wandering
of Israel following their separation from Egypt. The fighter in the
“Yahoo! Answers Religion and Spirituality public forum who uses the
ID “STEVAN” (Level 1 with 04 points, a member since February 02,
2017) posted the following:
How
was it possible for Moses to get lost in the desert for so long, did
he have learning difficulties or something?
Surely
nobody could be lost for 40 years lol
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the
LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I
do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that
were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye
shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make
you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the
son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,
them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
despised. But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in
this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness
forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted
in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye searched
the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear
your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach
of promise. I the LORD have said, I will surely
do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together
against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there
they shall die. And the men, which Moses sent to search the land,
who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by
bringing up a slander upon the land, Even those men that did bring
up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which
were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
(Numbers 14: 28-38, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Fed From The Altar? (06/19/2017); The Generation That
Wandered (06/14/2017); The Sheep Who Lost Their Way? (11/18/2014);
Restoring The Lost? (11/19/2014); Face to Face Like Moses?
(01/28/2014); Covenants and Relationships (01/29/2014); Lost Without
GOD? (06/26/2013); When Does Judgment Begin? (06/27/2013)
“STEVAN”,
the twelve tribes of Jacob and the mixed multitude that left Egypt
following Moses did not become “lost” in the wilderness for 40
years as an accident, as the result of opposition and warfare by
desert tribes and nations, or as errors by Moses and other human
leaders who served as guides. The period of 40 years (a generation)
was used by GOD for divine works that included chastisement,
correction, purification, revelation, and sanctification as well as
the fulfillment of proclamations, promises, and prophecy. Thus, for
40 years a pillar of cloud appeared by day and a pillar of fire by
night as the visible presence of GOD. For 40 years, manna was
provided as food Sunday to Friday; and no manna fell on the seventh
day, the Sabbath.
Practice
of divine law was to become maintained where once idolatry, fitting
in, and adopting the fashions and lifestyles of Egypt were
widespread. New meaning, standards and values were provided that
included making regular offerings and sacrifices to GOD; maintaining
decency and order through sacred judgment; and the seeking of counsel
from GOD who would indwell the tabernacle. The armies of Israel were
created using men most of whom had been laborers, shepherds, and
handlers of livestock. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible:
(1.)
Deuteronomy 1: 13-17, King James Version (KJV): 13 Take you wise
men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make
them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing
which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I
took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them
heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds,
and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among
your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear
the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously
between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is
with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye
shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of
the face of man; for the judgment is God’s:
and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and
I will hear it.
(2.)
Deuteronomy 1: 22-27, KJV: 22 And ye came near unto me every one
of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search
us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up,
and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me
well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they
turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of
Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the
land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought
us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD
our God doth give us. 26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your
God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD
hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to
deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
(3.)
Deuteronomy 1: 29-36, KJV: 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not,
neither be afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God which goeth before
you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in
Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast
seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son,
in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet
in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your
God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to
pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way
ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD
heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 35
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see
that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers. 36 Save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give
the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he
hath wholly followed the LORD.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.) Deuteronomy 1: 38-40, KJV:
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he
shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a
prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between
good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give
it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you,
and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be
useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
