“Do not murmur as any of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.”
Referring to the sin of murmuring on God, the apostle Paul recalls the event that took place after the miraculous passage of Israel through the Red Sea. Then they could immediately enter the land which God had promised them. Their fathers left the place erstwhile they went to Egypt 430 years ago. Now the Israelites were to return. God promised that he would be with them and that the Gentile nations would conquer. Moses sent spies to this land to learn the details and to find precisely how to proceed to take the land. But erstwhile the scouts returned, they caused large fear in people. On the contrary, only Kalew and Joshua calmed the people: “Let us enter this land flowing with milk and honey. The Lord will give us this land, trust Him.” But the Israelites became so fearful that they even wanted to rebel against Moses and stone Joshua and Caleb. so Moses cried to the Lord in prayer, and God said, ‘The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron again and said, «How long am I to endure this wicked congregation murmuring against me? I heard Israel murmuring against me. Say unto them, By my life, the oracle of the Lord, I will deal with you according to the words which ye have spoken before Me. Your corpses will fall into this desert. All of you who have been written up from the age of 20 years, you who have murmured against me, will surely not enter the land wherein I solemnly vowed to you to dwell, surely you will not enter—except Caleb the boy of Jephunneh and Joshua the boy of Nun. Your small children, whom you said they'd be spent on prey, will come in and know the country you despised. As for you, your dead will fall in the wilderness, and your sons will wander in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the burden of your infidelity, until your dead will be destroyed in the wilderness. You have known the country in forty days; all day now will turn into a year and for forty years you will repent for your sins” — Lb 14, 26-34.
Anyone can do an examination of their conscience, as God will if he permits even the slightest test. We frequently complain about others, alternatively than trusting in God, wait patiently and believe that God can turn even the worst evil into good. erstwhile we complain, we not only sin against God, but besides origin mischief to others. Then we should apologize, confess to the sin of unbelief and distrust of God and publically regret before those upon whom we have unleashed our anger and murmuring.
We will repeat this word of life for 2 weeks. Let us remember the different murmuring from the past, since we have believed in the Lord, so that we may at erstwhile repent and remember this, let us strike our chest at least 3 times with the words: "Lord, have mercy."
Before this word of life, the apostle explains: «I would not, brethren, that you should know that our fathers all, though they were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, and were all baptized in the name of Moses, in the cloud and in the sea; all besides ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual stone accompanying them, and this stone was Christ. But in most of them Allah did not like; for they died in the desert. And all this happened so that it might service as an example for us, that we should not covet evil as they desired. And be not idolaters like any of them, according to what is written, that the people may sit down to eat and drink, and emergence up to give themselves to pleasures. Let us not indulge in fornication, as any of them did, and twenty-three 1000 fell down 1 day. And let us not test the Lord as any of them put him to the test, and perished from the serpents.” ( 1 Cor. 10:1-9). Then there's the word we're going to repeat: "Do not murmur as any of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer." The apostle then stresses: ‘And all of this happened to them as a foreshadowing of the things to come, and it was written down to instruct us, which scope the end of time. Let him who thinks he is standing watch that he not fall” (v. 11-12).
