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? 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 set out. And, you know,

there's a lot of moments in the Bible show that just really make me laugh. And I think the transition

between numbers 10 and 11 is one of them because at the end of 10,

you got this like whenever the ark would set out, Moses would say, arise, oh Lord, let your enemies

be scattered and return to the 10,000s 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 just like,

what's happening? Yeah. And the Israelites are not strangers to complaining. Like this is,

this is kind of becoming a pattern, right? Yeah, same song, the verse. And they're complaining about the same stuff.

Food. Once again, like they're tired of the man and 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 them out of Egypt in the first place.

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.

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