Israel Refuses to Enter the Promised Land

 

Numbers 14 – Israel Refuses to Enter the Promised Land

 

“And wherefore has the Lord brought us into 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 to Egypt?” Numbers 14:3

Do you know who it was that entered the land? It was their children -that next generation.  The parents sat there and cried and said thy were thinking of the safety of the children.  The fact of the matter is that God was thinking of the safety of the children, and He brought them into the land.

When the spies came from searching the land, Caleb and Joshua, brought the same facts as the others.  The difference was because they included God. Caleb and Joshua insisted that if God would delight in them, He would bring them into the land. God was displeased with the other spies and said, “I’ll destroy them and make a nation from you (Moses) to fulfill My promises.” Moses reminds God that the rumor will go around that although He was able to bring them out of Egypt, He was not able to put them into the land. God then agrees to go ahead with them and put the next generation of Israel into the land.

God will complete the plan He had for you when He saved you.  And He will complete the plan He is working on now for the entire earth, because the time is coming when the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

The generation that complained did not enter the land.  Joshua and Caleb are the only ones whom God singles out from the people.  God promises that they shall enter the land. Their children were brought safely into the land they had despised. God tells the parents that they will wander in the wilderness for forty years – one year for each day the spies were in the land. The ten spies who brought the evil report and led in the rebellion died of a plague. They had lost their opportunity.  Now they parents presume to go up.  This is presumption.  Faith is not presumption! They again want to go their way rather than God’s way.  There can be no victory when there is no submission to the will of God.

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.