This teaching explores the journey of the Israelites in Numbers 13 and 14, emphasizing their reaction to encountering giants in the Promised Land and their struggle with faith and fear. The Israelites’ response to the spies’ report reveals a deep-seated fear that leads them to question God’s promises and long for the safety of Egypt. This pattern of faithlessness and the desire to control their own fate is contrasted with the call to trust in God, despite their knowledge of good and evil. The teaching examines the human tendency to create substitutes for God, such as idols and structures, and explores how true freedom and peace are found in serving God. By referencing various biblical narratives, including the Tower of Babel and the Mount of Transfiguration, the teaching highlights the recurring human impulse to “make” things and shows how genuine liberty comes from willingly being bound to God’s love and guidance. Ultimately, the Israelites’ refusal to trust God results in their wandering, offering a powerful lesson on the importance of faith and obedience in our own spiritual journeys.

Facing the Giants: Numbers 13 and 14

Last week we covered chapter 13 of Numbers and read the last verse which says,

Numbers 13:33
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

And we talked all about giants in our lives.

The People’s Reaction

Today, we open up to the people’s reaction to the spies’ report of giants found in chapter 14 beginning at verse 1:

Numbers 14:1
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

They were promised a promised land, but now they realized that entering into it was going to come with a price.

The Proverbial Response

But their response, which is proverbial, comes forward at verse 2:

Numbers 14:2-4
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
“Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!”
And wherefore hath YAHAVAH brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?
“Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?”
And they said “one to another,”
“Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

My goodness, how the ways of faithless fearful people never ever change, right?

Remember, the human race was made in God’s image, and having eaten from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, we pursued life according to knowledge God possesses that we simply do not know how to wield.

Made in God’s Image

I mean, God said,

“Let us make man in our own image.”

So, we’re in a tough spot – we are “made in the image of God but since the fall we are walking by knowledge we can’t handle – we don’t have the capacity as created beings and so we continually “Make ourselves God” fearing and failing to look to and to trust in Him alone.

The Tower of Babel

Remember at the tower of Babel what the people, again, “said to each other?”

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Those are the same bricks and the same mortar we have used ever since to make ourselves substitutes to seeking and searching for God instead of looking to Him about what to do and how to live.

For the people at Babel, it was a tower to reach heaven.

For the Nation at Sinai, it was a golden calf to worship.

Lot’s Daughters

In the case of Lot’s daughters, they said,

Genesis 19:32
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Let us – do this, do that -all bad choices.

Positive Choices

On the good side of choosing to make things, we read in Ezra however,

Ezra 10:3
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of YAHAVAH, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

And in Psalm 95:1 we read:

Psalm 95:1
O come, let us sing unto the YAHAVAH: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Human Drive to “Make”

The drive given human “to make” was present in the Gospels when the three apostles were at the Mount of Transfiguration and Peter, said to Yeshua:

Matthew 17:4
“Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

Like beavers and their dams, it’s our nature to respond to life by making, and is manifested in the lives of religious people today, who, seeking to “do something, to make something, to materialize the unseen around us,” to say to each other,

• Come, let us build a building, let us create an altar that we can touch, let us make an idol, a representation of, to make leaders, to make churches, to do, to act, and to comfort us in our uncertainties of life with an invisible God.

Appealing to our knowledge of Good and Evil, some men say, “come, let us build a bomb, let us make war, let us create chaos, while others, driven to do good, say,

• Let us make laws.
• Let us create governments
• Let us turn to science.

Seeking God in Spirit and Truth

The order is plain – led of our Maker, His children of faith say to one another, “let us,” seek Him in spirit and truth, to do only His will and ways, and do what he created us to be and do which is to place all of our lives in His hands and THEN to live according to how He tells us to live.

Here in Numbers 14, the Nation, never willing in the face of fear to turn to Him, said,

“Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

They were not pleased with the Single Lawgiver and the mouthpiece YAHAVAH had given them (Moses and Aaron) nor the direction they were giving them in that age (which is but a type first for the Messiah and then for the Holy Spirit given us today), so they sought to elect a captain, called a roshe in Hebrew, which means “a principle ruler to be over them.”

The Desire for Leadership

Our fears, our desire to be led, our wanting the tangible, and our lack of faith in YAHAVAH and His ways, continue to cause people to seek after other principles, or in the Greek, other “arches” of those to be primary in our lives – for the nation, it will soon be Kings.

Here, it was a new captain who would take them, worst of all, “back to Egypt.” Back to safety, back to comforts, back to bondage.

The Highest Ambition

I personally maintain that the highest ambition the living God has for His creations is for human beings to be free and at complete liberty from all forms of bondage and servitude – except for one, and that is the choice to make Him our arche, our primary, our true Master.

Can We Be Free Without Him?

Can we be free without Him? I do not believe it’s possible in the most literal sense for the simple reason He created us, and because of this unique origin the only means by which created beings can experience the highest level of emancipation from all other forms of bondage is through a willingness to be in bondage to the will of their Creator.

Paul appeals to the term bond in his epistles, saying in:

Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on agape, which is the bond of perfectness.

From this, we see the correlation – He is our creator, we are slaves to His will and ways, and as our taskmaster, He gently moves us to love as He would love.

This is His command.

Emancipation Through Bondage

In this way alone, His willing creations become emancipated from all of those things that ultimately overtake us and imprison us to their faulty commands and directives.

As our only achos, His command is to look on Him in faith and love as He describes. In and through these specific forms of bondage, His children are made free.

All other forms of love, bondage, or intermediaries we might bind ourselves to might promise liberty, but in the end merely serve to wrap us in chains.

Bondage of Love and Peace

Another form of bondage YAHAVAH offers all who are willing to submit to Him as our Master is described in Ephesians 4:2-3, where we read:

Ephesians 4:2-3
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

So, the bondage of love and the bondage of peace – these are the results of choosing to be a slave to Him alone.

The Greek Term “Sondesmos”

The Greek term translated to “bond” in these passages, is “soon’-des-mos” which is a compound word created from the term SUN (which means together) and DESMON (which means chains, bands, or ties.)

Our walk as created beings with our Maker is a two-way street in which we willingly submit ourselves to being bound together with Him, allowing Him and His will to reign and grow, and to let Him govern and guide us to greater faith which when rightly embraced and practiced always leads to greater agape love.

That love then brings us all into a paradoxical liberty which all other lesser captors only produce pain, sorrow, limited freedoms (instead of more) and ultimately no life, so therefore, death.

The Bond of Iniquity

Interestingly, “Sondesmos” is used by Peter in Acts 8 where we read the following story beginning at verse 14 where Luke writes:

**Acts 8:14

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Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit:
(For as yet it was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Yeshua.)
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
And when Simon (not Peter) saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

This “gall of bitterness,” and this “sondesmos” (or “bond of iniquity”) is what we strive to help people escape.

God has forgiven us all of the ramifications of these iniquities but this forgiveness does not by any means suggest that we are free from the captivity they impose – that liberty comes only by direct appeal to Him, which caused Peter to write in the face of counterfeits,

2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Serving Someone

And so, we all have the principle of being servants of something and like Dylan sang, “it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody.”

Jumping out ahead to the Book of Joshua, written once the Nation enters the promised land, we will read the following speech Joshua will make before the Nation, saying in Joshua 24 beginning at verse 1:

Joshua’s Challenge to Israel

Joshua 24:1-24
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith YAHAVAH God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
And when they cried unto YAHAVAH, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Now therefore fear YAHAVAH, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye YAHAVAH.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve YAHAVAH, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve YAHAVAH.
And the people answered and said, “God forbid that we should forsake YAHAVAH, to serve other gods;
For YAHAVAH our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
And YAHAVAH drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve YAHAVAH; for he is our God.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve YAHAVAH: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
If ye forsake YAHAVAH, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
And the people said unto Joshua, “Nay; but we will serve YAHAVAH.”
And Joshua said unto the people, “Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you YAHAVAH, to serve him. And they said, “We are witnesses.”
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto YAHAVAH God of Israel.
And the people said unto Joshua, “YAHAVAH our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.”

Of course, the forefathers of these souls with Joshua, who all will die in the wilderness, could not keep their promise to look to, worship, and serve YAHAVAH alone, and we see that this leads to their deaths way before their children would even enter the promised land.

Who Do We Serve?

So, we ask ourselves, clearly, transparently, and from the heart –

Who is our Master, whom do we serve, and to whom or what are we in bondage?

In the case of the Nation here in Numbers, filled with fear, we read:

“Let us make a captain”

And not only that, they added,

“and let us return into Egypt.”

The scripture has a way to describe what they are seeking and it’s:

Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Which caused Yeshua to say in:

Luke 9:62
No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Moses and Aaron’s Response

Returning to Numbers 14 at verse 5, let’s read through and cover the contents until the end,

Numbers 14:5-10
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
If the YAHAVAH delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against the YAHAVAH, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the YAHAVAH is with us: fear them not.
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the YAHAVAH appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

This timely appearance of the Divine glory prevented these faithful servants of God from being stoned to death by the fearful multitude. (verse 11)

YAHAVAH’s Response

Numbers 14:11-12
And YAHAVAH

said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

That passage is so fascinating, and I wonder about it, truly because he literally is saying, “I will disinherit these people, and these tribes, and will make a greater Nation who is mightier than they are from you, Moses!”

Is This How God Works?

Is this how God works – we act badly and He wipes us out? It seems like God is just wanting to start over – just like He did with the flood! But again, Moses intercedes, like he has done before back in Exodus, and we read him say to God Himself:

Numbers 14:13-16
And Moses said unto YAHAVAH, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou YAHAVAH art among this people, that thou YAHAVAH art seen face to face, and that thy cloud stands over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
“Because YAHAVAH was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.”

Moses’ Appeal

Amazingly, it seems that what Moses was implying is that YAHAVAH would look like a baby who turned on people when He got mad at them. Therefore, He would lose His reputation among the Nations who fell privy to His actions.

I mean, this sounds so weird right out the gate and we could make some really bad errors in trying to interpret it.

But to me, it appears that YAHAVAH is allowing Moses to work things out and it’s sort of like a parent who has given an assignment to a child, and the child is confronted with an obstacle, and the parent sort of walks the child through options before them.

A Parental Analogy

In other words, let’s say you tell your child to go rake up the leaves and that your child comes to you and says, “you told me to pick up all the leaves on the lawn but Billy and Lisa keep running through them and messing up my piles.”

And the parent says, “What should we do? I know, I will go out and tie Billy and Lisa up and put them in the car and drive them out to the desert and leave them there? What do you think?”

And the child is presented with this horror vicariously and says, “but, that is too mean, Dad. Maybe I can go and talk to them first?” And the parent says, “Okay, but you just let me know and I’m ready to get rid of them if you say.”

That kind of thing? So, Moses says,

Numbers 14:17-18
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of YAHAVAH be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
YAHAVAH is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Generational Impact

Is this a reality today? That our crimes and sins affect the third and even the fourth generations of our offspring. Especially in the face of God writing His laws on the hearts and minds of every individual and sin having been paid in full?

I believe the answer is yes and no. And it’s a heavy one and I could be utterly wrong in the way I see it. But here goes-

Yes: Spiritual or Soulish DNA

So first, yes. The line third and fourth generations speak to grandchildren and great-grandchildren and that the sins of a person or parents in some way pass down in how these generations choose to live, reason, and believe DUE to the genetic spirit of man in them.

Yes, I believe in spiritual or soulish DNA passing along to future generations but through what means I cannot say.

Perhaps it’s all biological and has nothing to do with the Spirit, but it seems to me that our every major choice alters or influences either the genetic makeup of future progeny so much that they may serve as benefits or detriments to the makeup, coping skills, and mindset of those who follow in through our genetic lines.

Yes, I admittedly believe – even mystically believe – that when a person or couple chooses to live in detrimentally selfish ways, the future offspring up to the third and fourth generations can be faced with certain innate difficulties as a direct result.

Radical Part: Redirecting Generations

However, and here is the radical part, I am also absolutely convinced that a couple or parent can, in and through choosing to look to Him, redirect the course of future generations – to the point that whatever would move them toward more Dark might move them to more Light to the point that future generations can become better equipped to cope, and even thrive, as a result.

It’s sort of a mystical notion we might see as, “metaphysical evolution or de-evolution, depending on the individual choices from each person’s ancestry.

I say this in part because my Dad came from a long line of some pretty dysfunctional people but he and my Mom chose a better way, and somehow those choices helped contribute to the lot of their children, their children’s children, and beyond.

Responsibility and Choice

This does not mean determination, but it does seem to have some sort of application to the conditions generations face due to the choices of their forefathers.

Because God writes His laws on all people now, it seems that we are all still responsible – but admittedly, some of us have a harder road to walk than others and I personally believe the future of the generations that come from us will either benefit from our choices . . or suffer from them.

Just me. But what Moses says next may play into people who submit to Him as opposed to those who don’t, as he says,

Numbers 14:19
“Pardon, I beseech thee, “the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

I mean, if there is a collective spirit of Man, because we are made in His image and because we too contribute to it somehow, perhaps when people turn from sin and are pardoned by God, this erases the effects that unrepentant sin brings to the conditions of future generations?

And perhaps, without our even knowing it, the sacrificial love and the faith we embrace are rewarded when God erases what would otherwise harm generations in the future or at least make their lives harder?

Moses’ Intercession

Verses 13-19 need no explanation, as Moses, like the child frustrated in picking up leaves, shows his love for Billy and Lisa who disrupt his efforts.

Numbers 14:20
And YAHAVAH said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

In other words, I will not cut them off as you have asked though they deserve it as you have rightly interceded on their behalf freely and from your own freewill choice.

Moses’ Discernment

Here we see YAHAVAH placing His response to the Nation in the hands of Moses and His discernment.

Imagine if Moses was a vengeful brute? But as a type for Christ, He was not – but when given the option, he petitioned YAHAVAH for mercy, forgiveness, and longsuffering. YAHAVAH adds at verse 21,

Numbers 14:21
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of YAHAVAH.

The Fulfillment

The phrase, “all the earth” from better scholarship, appears to better be, “and all of THIS land,” rather than the whole earth even though I would love to have it refer to the whole world.

In other words, all the land of Canaan.

So, when we read:

Psalm 72:19
And blessed be his glorious name forever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Or

Isaiah 40:3-5
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Or

Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

I am pretty sure these all speak to the Promised land, and that this was fulfilled when the preaching of Christ and his apostles was heard through all the cities and villages of Judea.

The Consequences

And YAHAVAH adds,

Numbers 14:22-25
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and

have not hearkened to my voice;

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)

And then YAHAVAH continues to speak the words of the rest of the passage saying:

“Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
And YAHAVAH spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith YAHAVAH, 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, (remember in their murmuring they said that YAHAVAH sent them out to have their wives and children killed? So he turns this on them and says, (and the children you said would become 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.”

The spies were forty days in searching the land, and the people who rebelled on their evil report are condemned to wander one year in the wilderness for every day the spies were there!

The Annulled Covenant

The meaning here seems to be: As God had promised to bring them into the good land, provided they kept his statutes, ordinances given at Sinai they had now broken their vows one too many times and He was no longer held to the contract but now they were going to face and realize both the annulling of the covenant which they had broken, and his vengeance on them as a result.

He elaborates on this more starting at verse 35, saying:

Numbers 14:35-37
I YAHAVAH 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 YAHAVAH.

So, ten of the twelve spies that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, it seems, “on the spot!”

Numbers 14:38-39
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.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

The Presumption of the Nation

We now read an amazing conclusion to this chapter. The Nation found themselves on the very borders of the land when God said they should not enter it but that they would be consumed by wandering in the wilderness for forty years.

NEVERTHELESS, they, being determined to force their will on the curse, perhaps believing that some sorrow would soften God’s heart toward them, seemed to believe that their temporary sorrow for their rebellion would be accepted as a sufficient atonement for their crimes. So what do they do?

Numbers 14:40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, “Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which YAHAVAH hath promised: for we have sinned.”

They just don’t seem to get him, do they? It was all faith and trust in Him that He desired, but they keep trying to make end runs to try and make things happen.

A Lesson for Us

Assign that to your own life with Christ. Right? We can do all things through Christ but without Him – forget about it. This is the model the Nation continues to present to us. (verse 41)

Numbers 14:41-43
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of YAHAVAH? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for YAHAVAH is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from YAHAVAH, therefore YAHAVAH will not be with you.

He is with them when they are with Him, but when they turn away, He turns away! What a principle! Verse 44.

Numbers 14:44-45
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of YAHAVAH, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

And we return to last week’s message on moving forward in faith and not fear because here, the Nation moved forward in flesh without fear and without God with them, and the end result was them being routed and driven all around that land.