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God was finally ready to move the people into the
Promised Land after a number of miracles but He wanted to test their
hearts. Moses was instructed to select twelve leaders, one from each
tribe, to spy out the Promised Land. Ten of the men were full of
unbelief and didn’t believe that God could bring them into the land.
This unbelief spread to the people and it would be an understatement
to say that God was displeased. The Lord would have killed them all
if Moses had not interceded on their behalf, nevertheless, they were
still cursed and had to deal with the consequences. The ten spies
were killed on the spot and anyone twenty years old and upward was
sentenced to die in the wilderness during the next forty years. The
children of the rebellious adults would live to see the Promised
Land but not until the oldest of them was 59 years old. They would
be made to suffer for the sins of their parents. When the 40 year
punishment was almost concluded, God told the younger generation
that they could choose to be blessed or cursed. It was their choice,
just like it had been with their parents. |
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