Numbers 11:1  And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

God didn’t mess around with these complainers. He burned them up. That’s what we ought to do with our complaints

Numbers 11:6  But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

The bread is not enough. Jesus is not enough. The Bible is not enough. Everything that God provides is never enough. Godliness with contentment is great gain.

 

Numbers 11:13  Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

GIVE US FLESH!!!!

Numbers 11:15  And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

KILL ME!!!! It seems like Moses is not any less a complainer than the ones he’s complaining about.

Numbers 11:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

Sounds like Moses has got Elijah syndrome

Numbers 11:20  But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

The opposite of being filled with the Spirit; filled with the flesh. We ought to not be greedy. We ought to be careful what we beg for. Proof that God will give you what you ask for even if it’s not his will.

Numbers 11:25  And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

The Spirit?

Numbers 11:26  But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

Eldad and Medad. Thought to be of unworth. No fit to be in the tabernacle.

Numbers 11:31  And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

The wind bloweth where it listeth. Verse 30, Moses and elders were not prophesying.  Only Eldad and Medad.

Numbers 11:34  And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

No more seconds. I’m satisified with what God gives me. I don’t need a double portion. I’m fine.

Numbers 12:1  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

God is not a bigot.

Numbers 12:8  With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Don’t speak against God’s man, or any of God’s servants for that matter.

Numbers 12:14  And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Seven days of punishment is good. Don’t let people off so easy. Let them stew a little while. It takes concrete days to cure right.

Numbers 12:15  And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

But, the whole church stuck around with her until the cleansing was done. Good picture, huh

Numbers 13:18  And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

What are we looking for? Strong or weak, few or many? good or bad? tents or strong holds? fat or lean? wood or not?

Numbers 13:20  And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

It the time of the firstripe grapes.

Numbers 13:23  And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

Grapes, Pomegranates, and Figs!

Numbers 13:25  And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Moses forty days in the mount. Jesus forty days in the wilderness. Noah forty days in the ark.

Numbers 13:30  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Go up. Possess it. Overcome it. Go. Go. Go. That different Spirit says go, go, go!

Numbers 13:31  But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Negative Nancy. What are the names of those guys again?

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.

Grasshopper syndrome!

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

Bunch of cry babies! Butch up. Get in there and possess it!!!

Numbers 14:4  And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Jerks! After all that God did and Moses did? Let go back! What a bunch of jerks. Go back for all I care is what I’d say if I were Moses. But God said there’s no going back. Can’t go back. There is no more sacrifice for sin. Hebrews 6.

Numbers 14:6  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

Don’t let up Joshua and Caleb! It is bad. Stick to your guns. Don’t give in to these cowards. Don’t give in to the flesh. Stand against it. Fight against it. Make known your stance. Let’s have some debate. don’t just sit idly by as other ruin the church. Or don’t just let the flesh run with this thing!!!!!

Mortify the dead of the flesh. Vs 37 they died in a plague. Moritfied

Numbers 14:10  But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

The glory of the Lord saved Joshua and Caleb because they were about to be stoned.

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

Apparently, the previous prayer of Moses was okay. He kinda put God in a spot. He was worried about what people of the lands would think of God. Seems petty, but maybe it’s not. God was apparently concerned. Maybe we ought to be.

Numbers 14:24  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.

Spirit filled? Only Caleb and Joshua were going over into the promised land. Why? Different spirit. Test the spirits, I would. You never know. Might find out you got a Negative Nahbi spirit.

Numbers 14:32  But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

As for you, flesh, you’re done. Die in the wilderness like you wanted to. You’re done old flesh. You can’t go over and you’re not going over. You’re not hold me back anymore. I’m bound for the promised land.

Numbers 14:34  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.

40 for 40. Odd. Think abou this.

Numbers 14:37  Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

They died in the wilderness. Mortified.

Numbers 14:40-45  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 the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.  (41)  And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.  (42)  Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.  (43)  For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.  (44)  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.  (45)  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

Sorry, you gave up your chance. You’re not going over. Sad, but good. We don’t do things on our own. We walk with the Lord. We go no up without Him. It’s not what or when we want, it’s what and when he wants.

Numbers 15:15-16  One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.  (16)  One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

One faith, One Lord, One Spirit, One Baptism

Numbers 15:24  Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

RECIPE FOR ATONEMENT. Not just this verse, there’s many like this. But it would be nice to enumerate the different types of sacrifices and expound on their signification

Numbers 15:32  And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Stick gatherer? A type of Christ. He gathered a cross, and a crown of thorns, the sticks in his hands and feet, the stick in his side.

Numbers 15:39-41  And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:  (40)  That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.  (41)  I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

Blue ribbons for rememberance. Remember the commandements? Or is it remember the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

What’s will help you do right? To remember the commandments, the laws, the statutes, and the ordinances. Or remember the one that saved you?