Everything New is Old Again

NUMBERS 11:24-13:33

Our country, the United States of America, is facing a “dis-ease” of epidemic proportion, obesity.  Approximately one out of three of its citizens are obese, based on published studies of statistics taken between 2003/04. (JAMA).  These statistics do not even mention how many of the remaining 2/3^rd of the population is overweight.  Fat kills, and there are multitude of studies to prove it.  Gluttony killed those in the dessert too.

   
³¹ Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. ³² And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. ³³ But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. ³⁴ So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah,^[a] because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.   
(Numbers 11:31-34, New King James Version)

Footnotes:

1. Numbers 11:34 Literally Graves of Craving

I once heard a minister, whose name escapes me, state that everything we need to live a successful Christian life can be found in the first five books of the Bible.  I am finding out the longer I live; he was and is absolutely right. 

Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean 

We may say some things but what is the real reason why we say them.  Miriam and Aaron tried to get a “posse” together to challenge Moses’ leadership.  Their verbal rational for their challenge was,

² So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it. (Numbers 12:2, New King James Version)

However, the true reason was something completely different,

 ^1-2 Miriam and Aaron talked against Moses behind his back of
because his Cushite wife (he had married a Cushite woman). They said, "Is it only through Moses that God speaks? Doesn't he also speak through us?"

   God overheard their talk.  (Numbers 12:1, The Message)

Beware the folks looking to put together a posse.  Ye better know why they are trying to stir up your passions.