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Scott (0:00)
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Shelby (0:05)
You are listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. And today we are discussing numbers 10 through 12. We've been talking about that this is coming, but the Israelites are finally leaving Sinai, right, Scott?
Scott (0:18)
Yeah, yeah. They've been there since Exodus, chapter 19. And so the cloud of God's presence, which we talked about yesterday, rises up, and so they. They set out. And, you know, there's a lot of moments in the Bible, Shelby, that just really make me laugh. And I think the transition between numbers 10 and 11 is one of them, because, you know, at the end of 10, you got this. Like, whenever the ark would set out, Moses would say, arise, O Lord. Let your enemies be scattered and return to the ten thousands of Israel. It's like this very triumphant, awesome moment. And then the very next verse followed immediately in chapter 11 with, now, the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. And you're like, what's happening?
Shelby (1:01)
Yeah. And the Israelites are not strangers to complaining. Like, this is kind of becoming a pattern, right?
Scott (1:07)
Yeah. Same song, new verse. It's the same. And they're complaining about the same stuff. Food once again. Like, they're tired of the manna God's provided. They start reminiscing about the free fish that we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, onions, and garlics. And I imagine Moses thinking like, hey, don't forget about the slavery. Like, they're just. They're romanticizing the oppression that God had delivered them from, and they're saying, hey, we want. We want meat now. And then God gives them meat through quail. But, you know, here's the deal. Like, God had given them quail already way back in Exodus 16, when they first came out of Egypt. So it's just interesting to me that instead of approaching Moses and saying something like, hey, God gave us meat in the past. Like, could you pray for him to do that again? We just would like something different. Instead, they just throw a tantrum, and they start complaining about God bringing him out of Egypt in the first place.
Shelby (1:56)
Yeah. So I know in the very first episode, we were talking about Adam and Eve and their disobedience to God, and you mentioned that you sometimes have a tendency to judge the people in the Bible for the decisions they make, and I resonated with that. I feel that, too. How do you feel right here when you're seeing them complain or just assume that God isn't gonna provide from them again? Are you feeling judgy as we read this, Scott?