Hey, hey, this is Shelby and Scott, and we're walking through the book of numbers.

We're in chapters 13 through 15 today.

So we're midway through the book.

I feel like when you're reading the Bible in the year, you've got to stop and celebrate often because it's like a daily commitment.

It is.

So congrats on being midway through the book

of numbers. Let's walk through these chapters, numbers 13 through 15. Yeah, all right. It's time for my

favorite phrase, Shelby, which is... Can't wait. Can I do a drum roll? Yeah, please. There's a lot that

happens in these chapters, Shelby. Seriously, though, this is a very, very big moment in

numbers and really the whole Bible, because this is where you get the Israelites, finally

approaching the land of Canaan, the land God had promised Abraham so, so long ago. And so

in preparation for the conquest, Moses sends out these spies who return, report on what they

saw. And there is at least one thing that all the spies can agree on.

I mean, they agree that it's a good place to live. Like they want to live there, right?

It's a great land. They say, we went to the land, you sent us. Indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here's some of its fruit. And then there's a butt, which is that the

people living there are strong. And then the spies say that we seemed like grasshoppers to them.

And this just sets the whole community of Israel off. Like, why did God go through all the trouble

of leading them here just to die when he could have killed them in Egypt and saved a lot of trouble. And so they decided to choose a new leader and return to Egypt. Feels like we were on a high high. Yeah. Like they're brought to the land and it is everything that God promised it would be. And then we're at the lowest of lows here where they're ready to literally find a leader other than Moses and return to slavery in Egypt.

Yes.

It's a bleak moment.

There are some glimmers of hope, though.

One, I think, is that Moses, again, intercedes for the people, which spares them the

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