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Numbers 11
2016-01-10
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Matt Johnson 2016-01-15 23:25:27
Loaded chapter but I'll write about one thing. Twice the people invoke anger from God and He punishes them in response. I find this a difficult aspect of God to understand. He already knows they will do it off course. When he gave them mana he knew they wanted matt. He knew why they wanted meat. When I get angry with my kids it's usually because I failed to know and understand the variables and lose patience. If I don't feed them breakfast and they are really crabby at noon, and I got angry, my wife would probably have some words about that. Also what purpose what punishment serve if I killed them? They can't learn from that punishment. So God must have known they were beyond hope. He knew that long before they angered him but he kills them after they do. He could have done this at any point in their lives. My only speculation is that he used them as examples for the growth of others who He still had hope for.
Matt Johnson 2017-01-18 00:31:05
Meat. A simple request with dire consequences. We don't really know the details but I'm thinking God is doing what's best for the main as a whole. When we have complainers on staff at work it brings everyone down. God is doing what need to be done and cutting out the cancer.
Matt Johnson 2017-01-18 09:18:39
Not necessarily. I think God just has a very specific fatherly role for the Israelites that practically I don't see in my life though I've heard testimonies of people who clearly see God's intervention and guidance throughout their life and both you and Tony G being examples. Personally, I can't see any way in which God has guided my life in any special direction. I look at my neighbors or friends and don't see anything that makes their life course any less extraordinary than mine. Maybe someday I'll look back and see the threads but I certainly don't see them yet. The Israelites seemed to have a unique purpose in history and are a unique part of the story God wanted us all to have. And I suppose as evangelicals most of us see that story being clearly divine up until the point the Bible we use was put together at the Council of Nicea. After that, to my knowledge there are little things here and there but nothing so grandiose as the stories we see in the Bible or the divine guidance needed to select the books for the Bible.