Answers about wilderness

What was God’s purpose for feeding his people Manna?

Great question! This is definitely something that God has placed before us to teach us an important lesson. One that both his people in the wilderness were supposed to learn, and one that he has passed on to us to learn as well! First we’ll look at what God says his intent was for providing [...]

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Why did God save the Israelites with a bronze snake when idolatry was forbidden?

This is a good question.  Under normal circumstances making of such an image was forbidden: Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. However in this [...]

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Who of the older generation besides Joshua and Caleb came across the Jordan?

No-one else who was over 20 at the time of the Numbers 14 rebellion. This is made clear in the following verses. Numbers 14:28-30 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of [...]

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