What’s Peculiar About You? Part [15] 02/04/2024 (Evening thought)

Numbers 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 378] God brought the Israelites from Egypt, that He might establish them in the land of Canaan, a pure, holy, and happy people. In the accomplishment of this object, He subjected them to a course of discipline, both for their own good and for the good of their posterity. Had they been willing to deny appetite, in obedience to His wise restrictions, disease and feebleness would have been unknown among them.

Their descendants would have possessed both physical and mental strength. They would have had clear perceptions of truth and duty, keen discrimination, and sound judgment. But their unwillingness to submit to the restrictions and requirements of God, prevented them, to a great extent, from reaching the high standard which He desired them to attain, and from receiving the blessings which He was ready to bestow upon them.

Says the psalmist: “They tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, He smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give bread also? can He provide flesh for His people? They had received great light, as they had been witnesses to the majesty, the power, and the mercy of God; and their unbelief and discontent incurred the greater guilt.

Numbers 11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

What’s Peculiar About You? Part [14] 02/03/2024 (Morning thought)

Numbers 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many.

God always gives to the human family the very best and this is made manifest when the raw facts in the matter are examined carefully. There were giants in the land of Canaan, in so much that the children of Israel got scared of their immense size. Therefore, we must ask a simple, logical question: “What were they eating” to support such massive bodies on an ongoing basis. Let the word of God speak for itself.

Numbers 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. 23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two of them upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

Unlike Daniel and his companions, the sons of Anak did not fear The Lord, and thus, we have to rule out any miraculous intervention, as far as diet and food is concerned. The raw facts in the matter point to a greatly superior diet, as was originally given in the garden of Eden, and which, when adopted by the peculiar people would speak for itself.

Numbers 13:31 But the men that went up with him (Caleb) said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!