So near but yet so far, a common phrase today, that applies to the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan. A journey that should have taken just under 2 weeks took 40 years!

<p>So near but yet so far, a common phrase today, that applies to the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan. A journey that should have taken just under 2 weeks took 40 years!</p>

Adam Ramdin

Lineage Season 3: Creation to Kings

Episode 01: Creation, Noah’s Ark and the Flood

Episode 02: Abraham: The Faithful Father

Episode 03: Lot, Sodom & Gomorrah

Episode 05: Moses- Let My People Go

Episode 06: Moses- The Passover & the Exodus

Episode 04: Joseph & Jacob: The Birth of a Nation

Episode 07: Joshua and Caleb- The 12 Spies & 40 Years in the Wilderness

Episode 08: Aaron- Mount Hor & and the Anointing of Eleazar

Episode 09: The Death of a Great Leader

Episode 10: Joshua- The Battle of Jericho

Episode 11: The Judges

Episode 12: The Cities of Refuge

Episode 13: David & Goliath

Episode 14: David and Saul- The Pursuit to Ein Gedi

Lineage Journey

As the children of Israel continued their journey in the wilderness, they encountered many challenges. Firstly, how'd you feed that many people? In Exodus 16 is recorded the first account of the miracle of the manor. A miracle that continued every week for the next 40 years. Every day for the first sixth days of the week, manor would fall. Then on the sixth day, they would hold a double portion. For the seventh day, the Sabbath and the part that they held for Sabbath would not go rotten. Then on the Sabbath, no manner would fall. This was all to remind them of the fourth commandment, which says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. It was also to teach them to rely on God every day for their temporal needs. They now came to Mount Sinai. There are two competing claims to Mount Sinai. One is in Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula, and the other is in Saudi Arabia. In what would've been the land of Midn, Mount Sinai is where the Israeli is built a golden calf in what was a terrible episode. As Moses came down from the mountain, he showed his and God's displeasure. Most of the people repented, but 3000 would not. The children of Israel had a lot to learn. After being in slavery for so many generations. As their left Sinai, they journeyed towards Canaan with the pillar of God's presence in front of them. At night, the pillar of CLA would turn to fire, and it was a visible presence that God was leading them. They were led to Kadesh Barnet. Today located on the southern border of Israel with Egypt, Moses sent 12 spies into the land. The names of the 12 are recorded in the Bible, but today most people can only name two of them As the 12 spies toward the land. No doubt the people waited in anticipation of a good report so their journey could end. However, when the spies came back, 10 of them gave a negative report and they said, even though the land was good and it was fruitful and it did flow with milk and honey, they said the people lived in 45 cities and we aren't able to take the land. Joshua and Caleb though said, we can take the land and encourage the people to do so, but 10 of the spies insisted that they couldn't even referring to themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of these supposed giants. The people now wish they hadn't left Egypt, and Joshua and Caleb tried one last time to convince them, but no matter how hard they tried, their words of encouragement were instead met with people who wanted to stone them with stones. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't reverse the negative and distrustful report that the other spies had brought back. Such doubt and disbelief in the power of God would not be left without consequence. God decree that all those over the age of 20 must die in the wilderness. In addition to this, for each day that the spies searched the land, they would wander in the wilderness for one year. This is one of the places where we get the biblical principle of one day equally a year. The only adults over the age of 20 that this did not apply to is Joshua and Caleb, who manifested tremendous faith and courage and their names have lived on in history. My favorite part of the story is at the end of the 40 years of wandering when Joshua and Caleb enter the land, Joshua is now the leader of the Israelites, and Caleb is an older man at the age of 87, but he has to be given the land of the giants. He says in Joshua 14, 12, give me this mountain. If the Lord be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out. He did not seek an easy retirement, but rather he wanted to show that our strength is not in human power, but it's in the power of God. No matter what our ages or what obstacles lie in our path where we trust God to deliver us and clear our path before us.

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Lineage Season 3: Creation to Kings

Episode 07: Joshua and Caleb- The 12 Spies & 40 Years in the Wilderness

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Episode 01: Creation, Noah’s Ark and the Flood

Episode 02: Abraham: The Faithful Father

Episode 03: Lot, Sodom & Gomorrah

Episode 05: Moses- Let My People Go

Episode 06: Moses- The Passover & the Exodus

Episode 04: Joseph & Jacob: The Birth of a Nation

Episode 07: Joshua and Caleb- The 12 Spies & 40 Years in the Wilderness

Episode 08: Aaron- Mount Hor & and the Anointing of Eleazar

Episode 09: The Death of a Great Leader

Episode 10: Joshua- The Battle of Jericho

Episode 11: The Judges

Episode 12: The Cities of Refuge

Episode 13: David & Goliath

Episode 14: David and Saul- The Pursuit to Ein Gedi

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