40 Day Dream

I find God and Moses' conversation in Numbers 14 to be intriguing. God is all ready to forsake the entirety of Israel, but Moses reminds him that the Egyptians will hear of it and that would not honor Him. After all, they told the Egyptians about how the Lord of Israel is slow to anger and forgiving, but killing off an entire race is just the opposite of that. It seems like a last ditch argument at first- "Hey, maybe God will buy this one and I can convince the people to be good!" Yet, God accepts it. He still punishes the people, as they deserve, but doesn't kill everyone. Moses managed to save them once again. On Thursday, Dr. Reid brought up the idea that Moses couldn't have been allowed into the promised land because the people may have run into the deification of him. After all, Israel does seem to really like its physical gods and leaders.Since he had saved their bums so many times in the past, it seems likely that Israel as a whole would find it hard to resist worshipping the physical man who got them to the Promised land.