New Life Destiny

We are to learn both from their success and their failures.

Israel had come through the Red Sea! They had been personal partakers in the miracle power of God. Right before their very eyes they saw the Red Sea open! They pasted through on dry ground with walls of water on either side. Having passed through they now saw those same walls of water come crashing down on all their former enemies. Not one survived! They experienced the bitter waters of Marah being made sweet and drinkable! Miraculously they were being fed Manna in the morning and eat at night. Now they were peacefully camped on the banks of the Jordan River! The Promised land lay before them!

They made a corporate decision to send in a small advance party to check things over! Twelve men in all made this first venture into the Promised Land. On their return they brought back samples of the produce the Land was yielding. Exceptional! They'd never seen anything like it! The signs were more than promising. Its exactly how God had described it to them! But wait! There were enemies in the land! Big enemies! There were mountains and high walled cities! Ten out of the twelve spies chose to view things through humanistic understanding. Human logic said, "it was impossible for Israel to conquer this land." Let's hear it in their own words! Num. 13:33 "We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." Clearly these guys were not looking through eyes of faith. They were leaning on their human reasoning. The outcome of such an approach to the things of God is nothing short of tragic.

Except for those who were of the "faith camp" the entire "first generation exodus Israelites" died in the wilderness, never experiencing God's "full salvation" for them. Heb 3:19 So we see that they were not allowed to enter his rest because of their unbelief. What makes unbelief so dangerous and completely unacceptable to God what it produces. Disobedience is always the result of unbelief. Disobedience is sin and sin can have no place in the presence of God or His eternal Kingdom.