Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey everybody, Kristen here and you're listening to the A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace

Podcast. And today's reading in numbers 10 through 12, God told Moses to make two silver

trumpets. And these trumpets, we're going to be used to gather the people for worship

and for feasts and to prepare them for battle. Isn't that interesting? You have worship

and you have preparation for battle. And then in verse 11, the cloud that we talked about

yesterday, it started to move. So Israel began to travel. They started to leave Mount Sinai.

They were finally on their way to the promised land. And we start this journey that whenever

the Ark of the Covenant went out, Moses would say, arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be

scattered and let those who hate you flee before you. And when it rested, Moses would say,

return, O Lord, to the 10,000, thousands of Israel. I would just imagine this great feeling

of excitement around all of this. I mean, it was after a year in the same place knowing

that God had promised this beautiful land. And now the people were finally on their way to go see

it. But unfortunately, this isn't what happened. In chapter 11, we see that the people actually

started to complain. This made God mad. And so he sent fire from heaven. But even that didn't stop

their bitter hearts. Soon, they started complaining that they had no meat to eat, that they were tired

of having mana. So if you remember back to the book of Exodus, the people were hungry and God had

sent this miraculous provision of food from heaven called it mana. And it was kind of like coriander

seed. The people would take it. They would boil it, make cakes from it. It was miraculous. It was

this food that God had provided from nothing out of the wilderness. But the people were tired of

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