Desert or Dessert
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· 11 viewsOn the boarders of the promised land, they could almost taste it. The milk and honey was practically on their tongue. Instead, they ended up losing their lives in the desert? What can we learn from the time of the 12 spies?
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Israel
Came out Egypt
10 Plagues
Red Sea
Egyptian Army
Sinai
10 Commandment
1 year
Board
Kadesh
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
Excitement in camp
finally here
going in
What’s next?
energy
anxiety
excitement
Assignment
Assignment
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
12 Spies
go in
Others wait in
expectation
can’t wait
to hear
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Raluca
Good News
Bad News
The Good News
The Good News
And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
The Bad News
The Bad News
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
10 Spies
Speak negative
2 speak faith
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Faith
We can through God
10 Spies:
Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
Unbelief
Impossible
Too Big
Too Strong
The Ugly
The Ugly
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
That not even true.
gross exaggeration.
Opposite of previous report
Huge Cities
giants...
Over exaggerating
to win argument
Satan behind this.
The Result
The Result
murmuring
resentment
anger
mutiny
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
murmuring
leads to
resentment
leads to
anger
leads to
mutiny
Murmuring
people Cried
Resentment
people “grumbled against Moses and Aaron”
Anger
“Would that we had died in the land of Egypt!”
Mutiny
“Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
Accusations
Accusations
Moses
“grumbled against Moses and Aaron”
God
“Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword?”
Satan Succeeds
distrust prophets
distrust God
Earnest Prayer
Earnest Prayer
Moments like these
what do leaders do?
Pray....
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
Year of hardship
Year of tough leadership
Falling Apart
After so much.
Only solution
pray
pray
pray
Act In Faith
Act In Faith
Joshua and Caleb
try to quell
bring rational thought
And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
Past
Egypt
Red Sea
Sinai
God can do it!!!
Just believe
Just Trust
Just move foreward
Does the little speech
touch hearts?
change minds?
Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
Kill them
stones in hand
Satanic revolt
God intercede
glory appears
people stop
Moses Intercedes
Moses Intercedes
God says,
I’m going to kill them
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
start a new nation from you
Moses says
Don’t do it
Shed wrong light on your name
surrounding nations
You are God of grace
Grace?
Grace?
Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, according to your word. But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
Is that Grace?
Won’t Destroy
Let’s die in wilderness
Consequences
Consequences
the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord.
Those who
led rebellion
caused sin
demons
judged
condemned
40 Years
40 Years
Pronouncement
sadness
Crushed people
couldn’t accept it
Broke hearts
Moses
Aaron
Joshua
Caleb
accepted
trusted
People heard news...
Repentance?
Repentance?
When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly. And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.”
Repentance?
mourned greatly...
Changed hearts
“we will go now...”
Repentance of what?
Sin?
Consequences?
Satan great success...
Disobey God
don’t go.
Disobey God
and go...
People are delusional...
Convince themselves
God is With Me
in adultery
Don’t Go
Don’t Go
Moses tries to
convince them
no to go.
But Moses said, “Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord, when that will not succeed? Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.
They don’t listen.
Controlled by Satan...
But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.
They Go
No leader
No prayer
No ark
No blessing
No God
The Inevitable
The Inevitable
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.
They are defeated
many die
Second Entrance
Second Entrance
People Trusted God
no superior skill
no good swords
no great army
How did they win?
bees
hail
wall crash from trumpets
What is God doing?
Teaching
His power.
Faith and trust
Obedience
Patriarchs and Prophets Page 392
“It was not His purpose that they should gain the land by warfare, but by strict obedience to His commands.”
Now What?
Now What?
We are in
Similar situation...
Boarder of Promised Land
About to Enter
Unbelief
40 Years of Wandering
Lessons for Us Today
Lessons for Us Today
The varied experience of the Hebrews was a school of preparation for their promised home in Canaan. God would have His people in these days review with a humble heart and teachable spirit the trials through which ancient Israel passed, that they may be instructed in their preparation for the heavenly Canaan. — Patriarchs and Prophets 293
Exodus and Advent Movements in Type and Antitype
by Taylor Bunch
Exodus
Miracles
God’s Leading
Tough Trials
Disappointment
40 More Years Wandering
Review and Herald An Impressive Scene
If every soldier of Christ had done his duty, if every watchman on the walls of Zion had given the trumpet a certain sound, the world might, ere this, have heard the message of warning. But the work is years behind. While men have slept, Satan has stolen a march upon us.
Australasian Union Conference Record How Much Owest Thou?
If God’s people had the love of Christ in the heart; if every church member was thoroughly imbued with the spirit of self-sacrifice; if all manifested thorough earnestness, there would be no lack of funds for home and foreign missions; our resources would be multiplied; a thousand doors of usefulness would be opened, and we should be invited to enter. Had the purpose of God been carried out by His people in giving the message of mercy to the world, Christ would have come to the earth, and the saints would ere this have received their welcome into the city of God.
Clearly
It is not
God’s will
for us to still be here.
“All God’s Timing”
Not completely.
Last Day Events The Delay Explained
Had Adventists after the great disappointment in 1844 held fast their faith and followed on unitedly in the opening providence of God, receiving the message of the third angel and in the power of the Holy Spirit proclaiming it to the world, they would have seen the salvation of God, the Lord would have wrought mightily with their efforts, the work would have been completed, and Christ would have come ere this to receive His people to their reward.… It was not the will of God that the coming of Christ should be thus delayed.…
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord’s professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years.—Evangelism, 695, 696 (1883).
We should be
in heaven already...
Why aren’t we?
Rebellion like Israelites?
Love of this world
Comfort Here
Citizenship is on earth
No passion to share truth
No desire to obey and move foreward.
Distracted by Baal Peor instead.
Conclusion
Conclusion
We Stand
pivotal position
12 spies done
40 years gone
Still no entry...
Appeal
Appeal
Will we trust?
Will we obey?
Will we enter?
I will leave for you to ponder what that means for you individually.
I have some ideas corporately.
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