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In the book of Numbers, we learn that the Israelites wandered aimlessly in the wilderness for a generation. Why?
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The Israelites wandered aimlessly because they rebelled and prayed that God would not make them enter the land with its fierce enemies. Despite seeing all of the miracles from the plagues, the Israelites were afraid to take the land with the giants who inhabited it. They had forgotten Who God was (is) and chose to follow their own desires rather than His.
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The Israelites believed the 10 spies rather than the promises of God. They trusted the spies more than God
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They wondered in the desert because they did not put their trust and faith in God’s ability to provide.
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These people were not the true people of God they were afraid and feared the idea of fighting giants for the promised land. Our loving father never forced them to do anything. He answered their prayer after they had begged Him not to make them fight. He allowed them to wonder around in the desert for forty years until that entire generation died off. Afterwards, a new generation of God’s people a fiercer type proceeded to take the land and claim it as their own.
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They didn’t trust God enough to go into Canaan. They went with what they could see, the giants the spies reported, rather than believing the God who had brought them out of bondage and provided while traveling every step of the way.