"Did these people really understand what they were being called out and lead to be?" The answer I have come to is NO they did not understand...
The next question I have, "does anyone understand what and who Moses was to be?"
Here is my understanding of what Moses was called to be..and what he was not called to be ..
Moses was not just someone God chose to boss these people around and keep them in line, he wasn't even chose to pass out threats of destruction to keep these people obedient, he was not God's bully! God chose Moses as the one He was going to grow and raise up (like a child) to instill a heart within him that would cry out with an unimaginable love for others, a love that would push him to overcome every fear he had so much so that he would be able to stand face to face with God Himself and say FORGET IT! I won't go without them and WE will not go without YOU! So much so that Moses desired to be completely blotted out if the terms were any different..
Moses was called to be the example to these people.
Having said that...these people were chosen to be grown and raised up (like children) to be instilled with a heart that would cry out with an unimaginable love for others so much so that they will overcome every fear they have and even be able to stand face to face with God Himself and say WE WILL NOT GO WITHOUT.. THEM or YOU! blot us out if the terms are any different..or you could be broken and on your knees sobbing, snotting, crying in the presence of God, begging for real mercy of don't just kill me and leave behind any painful memory of me for my loved ones, but un-create and blot me out of existence completely, make it so I never was...
Now ask yourself, why? when these people were told and asked to go over and TAKE that promise land, let's go do a little warring and destroying to get it! their hearts didn't kick in and they find no love for others? Ask your self why their little borders of ME and US did not extend? Have the little borders grown any since then? Is there any willing to give up their special chosen-ness and lay it all down for ALL?
Moses' set a wonderful example in everything he did, he was a tiny mustard seed, a speck in the middle of these people and these people were a speck in the middle of all people...
But even Moses' had not grow to a full understanding of just how far those borders of US were to go...
Jesus was the FIRST to lay it ALL down for ALL people...the first to expand the little borders to cover the whole of us all..
With the threat of world destruction today..what will you do? with a personal promise to be saved out and away from that destruction, what will you do? It's the same words and promise that God said to Moses.. My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.
My understanding may sound backwards and crazy, but I can live with this mercy...
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