Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men that went up with him said, we are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
That is the end of Numbers, chapter 13. Look at the first verse in chapter 14, for as satan churned the situation over and over in their minds, he succeeded with the currency of discouragement, intimidation, and fear and the results followed like clockwork, for they decided they had had enough, and it was time to turn back… Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another let’s make a captain and let us return into Egypt.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 389>390] Revolt and open mutiny quickly followed; for Satan had full sway, and the people seemed bereft of reason. They cursed Moses and Aaron… The unfaithful spies were loud in denunciation of Caleb and Joshua. And the cry was raised to stone them. The insane mob seized missiles with which to slay those faithful men.
Numbers 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, the land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
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