Numbers
32 Reuben and Gad
Reuben
and Gad asked for land on the wrong side of Jordan. Moses is very disturbed at their
request. He fears that this young
generation will repeat the failure of their fathers. After enduring the hardships and
discouragements of forty years in that terrible wilderness, the thought of
again failing to enter the Promised Land seemed too much to risk. Reuben and
Gad offered to send their men of war to help the other nine- and one-half
tribes to take the Promised Land. On
this basis, Moses agreed to let them settle on the east side of Jordan, but he
gave them a warning. “If you do not do as you say, your sin will find you
out.”
In
the way that you sin, that is the way it may go to come home to you sometime. There are two places for the child of God to
live today. You can live in the
wilderness of this world and be a spiritual pauper, or you can enter the place
of spiritual blessings, represented by Canaan.
The
stones that were put in Jordan speak of the death of Christ. The stones that were taken out of Jordan
speak of the resurrection of Christ. You and I get our spiritual blessings by
the death and resurrection of Christ.
The
two-and-one-half tribes did not cross the Jordan. They had gotten into a sad condition. In Mark
5:1. We find that the Gadarenes had asked Jesus to leave their country. This always happens to the child of God who
fails to cross Jordan and get into the Land of Promise.
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Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary
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