100 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 4 - Book 9 - Kadesh-Barnea

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 9 TABERNACLE SET-UP; DESCRIPTION OF MATERIALS: CHRIST; HIGH PRIESTLY WORK: KADESH-BARNEA Exodus - Deuteronomy I've had many people writing and calling; admonishing me to hurry up and get into prophecy. A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that seven weeks after the Tabernacle was raised up the first time, the cloud lifted, and it directed the children of Israel all the way up to the border of the Promise Land, the land of milk and honey. God dealt with it, but fortunately He also healed her. Remember Israel was complaining because they didn't have the flesh pots of Egypt. But now as we come to this chapter, it's a sad, sad state of affairs: Numbers 14:1,2 "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses (this wasn't anything new was it?) 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!'" Always remember the setting. They've walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. Deuteronomy 1:19a How God kept track of between 3 to 7 million people and all their livestock, I don't know. Deuteronomy 1:19-21a "...we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. The Promised Land is just ahead.) And I said unto you, `ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee; go up and (spy it out? Did God intend those twelve spies to go into Israel? God intended for the nation of Israel to go right on in by faith. By faith. By faith. Can't we send in spies?" And God, in His goodness and graciousness, what did He do? Deuteronomy 1:21b,22 "...go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. (now read the next verse. Isn't that awful? You see, they were taking things out of God's hands and putting it into the hands of mere mortals. Here the land of milk and honey was sitting there in front of them. Of course, the picture here is that Israel could have entered into what the Bible calls; what's the word? His rest. Numbers 14:3a "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?..." Go to verse 28: Numbers 14:28,29a Can you imagine Dallas and Fort Worth, out there in the wilderness of Sinai? Numbers 14:29b,30 Numbers 14:31 God comes back and almost like a comedy of errors, tells them), which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised." Everything that God has put out there for the human race, what do they say? Come back to Numbers 14, verse 4: Numbers 14:4 return into Egypt.'" You remember what the conditions were in Egypt? I mean it's stark; what's the word: unbelief. Go to Hebrews Chapter 3. Remember, when Paul wrote the book of Hebrews, he was writing primarily to Jewish believers. Hebrews 3:7-9 Hebrews 3:10-12a So (God's speaking now), I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into (here's the words) my rest. unbelief..." Hebrews 11:6 "But without (what's the word?) Hebrews 9:22 It was the only way for man to approach God. There is no approach to God other than the blood-sprinkled way. Without the shedding of blood we can't please Him.Back to Hebrews Chapter 3 then, it all rests on their lack of faith. They could have had the very rest of God. The could have had the land of promise. Now down to verse 13: Hebrews 3:13 Faith. Because, unless we can believe what God says about certain activities or certain acts, we don't know that it's sin. Our whole daily walk is prompted by faith in God's Word. It's taking God at His Word concerning myself, concerning you. I don't have to tell people, "Stop doing this and stop doing that" because as soon as they get into The Book and see what The Book says, by faith, then they're going to take appropriate action. I still maintain that if you get people into The Book, you get them to believe in what God says, and all those things that a lot of people scream about; they'll take care of themselves. So then verse 14: Hebrews 3:14 Hebrews 3:15,16 "While it is said, `To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Joshua, Caleb, Moses and Aaron. Hebrews 3:17 Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?" Again, I always remind people of this. Unbelief! Had they believed in the God that Moses was dealing with up there in the mountains, would they have asked for an idol? Hebrews 3:18 People will not, and for some reason, cannot believe the Word of God. Hebrews 3:19 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible