Oh, the irony of it all! Israel, fearful and faithless, shortsighted and self-preserving, now find themselves doing the very thing the wished to avoid- Fighting for their lives. No one was happy to see this mass of people coming into their territory and the Israelites would find themselves in battle after battle moved through the wilderness. This is the very thing they imagined they would never survive if they did as God proposed yet here they were.
Disobedience rarely makes your life more peaceful and secure and boy, did the Israelites find that out. Now their misery would be extended 40 years and they would find themselves having to defend themselves over and over. The funny thing is they were always victorious. Time after time their army defeated their attackers. Again, we see that God was very generous to these people who chose rebellion rather than him. You think they would get it after awhile. God is big and strong. He never fails at anything he does. You want to follow his plan. Period. Maybe that's just what he was going to take 40 years time to imprint it onto their souls.
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