this came to mind this morning
the bronze snake on a pole
Numbers 21 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the
Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
i ponder over it Yehovah perform 10 miracles and delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt
yet this faithless generation have no faith and grumbles against God
yet this faithless generation have no faith and grumbles against God
Why did God ask Moses to make and idol for them to see ?
i believe it is for this faithless people that have to see to believe and how sad it is for God and Moses
when God already sent a plague against them in earlier passage Numbers 14:11 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? I will strike them
down with a plague and destroy them”
God had promised them victory. The land He commanded them to go in and take was already theirs;
they simply had to trust and obey,
But this they did not do and so this faithless generation wandered for 40 years and died
did not see the land Yehovah promised on oath to their forefathers.