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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 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. Moses says he wishes all God's people were prophets. And Paul reiterates this in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 14.
Up to this point, Moses was the only one communicating the words of God to the people. But here there are lots of others doing it now too. This brief moment of prophecy helped establish trust. This is a blessing to the whole group because now these leaders within the camp are showing evidence of being connected to God as well.
Having the Spirit carries a real weight and responsibility for these new leaders, and Moses is thrilled to share authority with them, even though God maintains that he and Moses have a distinct relationship. God says he'll send the meat that the people want. In fact, he'll send so much of it that they'll regret asking.
Have you ever heard the stories of lottery winners whose entire lives are ruined by their winning and who regret ever playing to begin with? That's what this reminds me of. God sends a wind that blows a lot of quail into the area, piling their dead bodies three feet high. It's like a snowstorm, but with birds.
Those who gathered the least amounts of quail gathered more than 1,000 two-liter bottles. But at the start of their quail feast, God struck some people with a plague directly related to their grumbling and mistrust of his heart. I'm confident he was just in which people he struck down. After all, he knows hearts and he sees everything.
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