Christian Huff

Um, and so the people grumbled against Moses cause they didn't have any food and God showed them slogging through the water and then the water became sweet.

Then it says, and the Lord made them a statue and a rule.

And he tested them saying, if you listen to the voice of God, which is right, um, I'll put none of the diseases on you, but I will be your Lord and I'll be your healer.

And that idea of like testing or training, teaching a lesson and then providing something good with the water, with the manna, with the water again, to me, it feels like God's like,

I'm going to give you these small things, these small tests of obedience to show you that if you obey, even if you think it's arbitrary, that it's going to turn out to be good.

And then that leads up to the Ten Commandments, which ends up being life or death for them.

Yeah.

Of, okay, you've seen me give you water.

You've thrown the log in the thing.

You've seen me give you food and not gathered it up.

You've seen me say strike the rock and you struck it and I gave you more water.

Now I'm going to give you these commandments.

You know, even if you don't know why I'm telling you to do it, if you follow it, it will turn out good for you.

My other point about that, I thought this was funny when they complained about wanting to go back right after coming across the Red Sea.

It's like, where would they go?

Like, they turned around and it's water.

And they're like, Moses?

That's a good point.

Can you part that Red Sea again so we can go back?

Yeah.