Q3. Refusing to Enter the Promised Land

[csreeves]

Q3. (Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious? What did it represent on the people

[Ashech]

Q3. (Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious? What did it represent on the people

[Trusting God]

Q3. (Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious?

The failure to enter the Promised Land was serious, because the people who complained and did not believe in God

[blezed]

Q3. (Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious? What did it represent on the people

[wifee]

3a)It was a covenant promise for the people to enter promised land.The entire point of the journey it took 430 years to occur, so their dream were unfulfilled

b)For the people it represented their unbelief &therefore they would never receive the blessing of Abraham, Isaac &Jacob.

c)On the Lord’s part,exacerbation, he punished unbelieving Israelites for their disobedience,their lack of faith&trust in God’s promise he made to Abraham,Isaac & Jacob.God knows the right punishment to fit the crime.

d)Punishment comes as a consequence when we disobey what God asks of us.The plague though severe,was God’s response to Israelites unbelief,fear and rebellion.It did enable God to clear out the unbelievers, so faithful,believing men&women would enter the promised land after their parents had died. God responded to Moses intercessions he allowed, most to have lives wandering in desert,as opposed to unbelieving spies who died suddenly

e)weeks or months instead of 40years.

[IvoryEagle]

Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious? IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING. THEIR PRAYER HAD BEEN ANSWERED AND THEY CANCELED THE ANSWER.

What did it represent on the people's part? FAILURE FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN.

What did it represent on the Lord's part? GOD IS SERIOUS ABOUT FAITH AND OBEDIENCE.

In your opinion, was the punishment too severe? YES.

Why or why not? THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN AGAINST DEVASTATING ODDS. ONLY GOD KNEW HOW POWERFUL GOD WAS; BELIEF WAS, TO THEM, A LUXURY OR AT BEST A SKILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

If the people had moved in faith, how long would their trip from Egypt to Canaan have taken? DAYS.

[Onerivertrail]

Q3. (Numbers 14) Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious?

This land was promised by God and the good reports of it fell on deaf ears. In every way since their beginning of this journey to the promise of God the people rebelled, fell short of any faith or belief in God. They seemed like they had no remembrance for all the ways God showed Himself strong on their behalf. This was 40 years strong and now they are about to cross over and their old ways of dealing with life and their leaders was still the same behavior. This was more than serious with a holy God.

What did it represent on the peoples part?

It showed the same rebelious, fearful, selfish and demanding people that they were from the beginning of their exodus.

What did it represent on the Lords part? 

It showed the Lords nature is unchanging but nonetheless loving and at the pleas of Moses turned back from complete destruction of the people He called Israel. He is a just and faithful God.

In your opinion, was the punishment too severe? Why or why not?

No. It was just and actually quite merciful considering the fact that the people ignored all He had done since they began their journey with Him.

If the people had moved in faith, how long would their trip from Egypt to Canaan have taken? 

I don't know for sure. Maybe days, weeks or months but certainly not years!!

[Ademola]

lesson 8: Q3

A. Failure to enter the promise land will hurt God reputation, it'll make future generations not to trust in God.

B. On the part of the people it will justify their fear from the time they left Egypt that God does not have any definite purpose for them.

C. On the Lords part it will damage Gods reputation.

D. No! The punishment is not too severe.

E. These are people choose after Gods commands how could they have fall cheaply for materialism and position to the of discrediting Moses.

F. If the people had moved in faith the trip from Egypt to Canaan could have taken 40 days.

 

[Irmela]

Q3. (Numbers 14)

Why is this failure to enter the Promised Land so serious?

What did it represent on the people's part?

What did it represent on the Lord's part?

In your opinion, was the punishment too severe? Why or why not?

If the people had moved in faith, how long would their trip from Egypt to Canaan have taken?

It is out and out rebellion against God who had proved Himself over and over again as God Who watches over them, Who provides for them, Who protects them.  Their fear was born from unbelief.  Disobedience, Testing God and treating Him with contempt brought about punishment upon themselves and their children, who had to be in the wilderness until the last of that generation had died.  

The people chose to lay aside faith and actually chose to go back to Egypt. They were prepared to go back into bondage instead of allowing God to bring them into the Land of Promise.

The people that left Egypt, who were older than 20 when they left, all eventually died in the Wilderness.  It was a new generation that was given a chance to serve God, Whom their parents had rejected again and again by the way they murmured against Him.  (Also Joshua and Caleb)

Not too sure of the time.

[Krissi]

So many of us get close to our goal, but never reach it because we're afraid, sinful or just can't think big enough to imagine ourselves victorious when we're doing God's will. The Israelite failure to reach the promised land is an example of this. It's tragic. In fact, it makes me ill to think that the Israelites saw many miracles and blessings and yet still fell for disinformation and were fear-filled. 

Most of us are afraid when obstacles in front of us seem insurmountable. That's the mindset of the "ten." The majority. Most of us, too, fall for governmental disinformation. We are kept in a state of fear to make it easier for the government to control us. 

Think about history: the Israelites were rescued from Egypt, shown great forgiveness and blessing, and then, at the very end, were punished by not achieving the ONE goal they were promised, entrance into the promised land.  How did they go on afterward knowing their lives were going to be wasted in the desert, that there would be no future or hope? The people were unused to thinking clearly and critically as they had been propagandized by their leaders for years. I pity them.

Only "two" were clear thinking and faith-filled. Caleb and Joshua were the social rebels and God-obeyers of their time.

How often have we, as Christians, started out on a journey of faith and then screwed up on the path along the way? Did God put us back on the path, or did he condemn us to wander forever in the desert? Our faith in Jesus changes the calculus of the time of Moses even though God is the same ... and so are we. Though we can be forgiven, the consequences of our sin could keep us in the desert forever. God doesn't necessarily or even often erase consequences of sin.

Not one of us have stayed strictly on the path. Yes, the Israelites had repeatedly sinned in big ways, but haven't we all? Haven't we had fear? Distrust? Haven't we held back and thought of ourselves as grasshoppers and not "more than conquerers?"

Yes, I think the punishment was too severe but I'm a softy and expect His forgiveness to overrule our sin, big or little. At least God didn't kill them, as He did in Sodom or with the Noatic floods.

God, when He so chooses, cleans the slate.