Numbers 11:18-20 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh , and ye shall eat. Ye shall not eat one day, not two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Friends, we’ve all been warned to be careful what we ask for. Those Israelites proved the point. Continuing yesterday’s story, they drove Moses so crazy with wanting flesh, that he went to the Lord and offered his life to be rid of the burden. He couldn’t handle it alone. The Lord understood Moses’ predicament and mercifully imbued seventy elders with His Holy Spirit to help him. Then He unleashed Today’s Bit on poor Moses. It’s sad, but I have to laugh, since we’ve all had similar experiences. The Lord just got fed up with their whining and said, ‘All yuh want flesh, flesh like yuh had in Egypt. Well I’ll give oonoo flesh, and oonoo going eat it too. Not only for a day or two, but for a whole blessed month! Until it come out oonoo nose, an’ all yuh can’t even stand to see it. Because all yuh so (unprintable) ungrateful. Here, I trying mih best to help oonoo, but all oonoo doing is wailing and whining bout flesh, an’ why all yuh leave Egypt in the first place. Chuh!’ And then, after some confusion and jealousy about two elders prophesying inside the camp because they received the Holy Spirit there, rather than outside like the others, that caused a distressed Moses to wish all the people were prophets, the Lord caused a wind to bring quails from the sea and drop them around the whole camp; quail two cubits high and a day’s journey afar. A cubit was between 18 and 22 inches in length, so they had quail rising to at least three feet high, and as far as you could walk for a whole day away from the camp, in any direction. Wow! The Lord really knows how to put on a show. They wanted flesh, so He gave them flesh. And the greedy people collected quail for two days straight. But unfortunately Friends, while the quail was between their teeth, before they could even chew it, the Master of Timing kindled His wrath against them and smote them with a great plague. The moral of the story people? Don’t be in too much of a rush. Be fairly contented with what you have; grow where you are. Be very careful what you whine and beg for; you might just get it, but in a manner that will eventually turn loathsome. Don’t worry, just be obedient, and The Lord will increase you in His own time. Much LOVE!…say it again…be very very careful what you ask for…you might just get it…
Friends, we’ve all been warned to be careful what we ask for. Those Israelites proved the point. Continuing yesterday’s story, they drove Moses so crazy with wanting flesh, that he went to the Lord and offered his life to be rid of the burden. He couldn’t handle it alone. The Lord understood Moses’ predicament and mercifully imbued seventy elders with His Holy Spirit to help him. Then He unleashed Today’s Bit on poor Moses. It’s sad, but I have to laugh, since we’ve all had similar experiences. The Lord just got fed up with their whining and said, ‘All yuh want flesh, flesh like yuh had in Egypt. Well I’ll give oonoo flesh, and oonoo going eat it too. Not only for a day or two, but for a whole blessed month! Until it come out oonoo nose, an’ all yuh can’t even stand to see it. Because all yuh so (unprintable) ungrateful. Here, I trying mih best to help oonoo, but all oonoo doing is wailing and whining bout flesh, an’ why all yuh leave Egypt in the first place. Chuh!’ And then, after some confusion and jealousy about two elders prophesying inside the camp because they received the Holy Spirit there, rather than outside like the others, that caused a distressed Moses to wish all the people were prophets, the Lord caused a wind to bring quails from the sea and drop them around the whole camp; quail two cubits high and a day’s journey afar. A cubit was between 18 and 22 inches in length, so they had quail rising to at least three feet high, and as far as you could walk for a whole day away from the camp, in any direction. Wow! The Lord really knows how to put on a show. They wanted flesh, so He gave them flesh. And the greedy people collected quail for two days straight. But unfortunately Friends, while the quail was between their teeth, before they could even chew it, the Master of Timing kindled His wrath against them and smote them with a great plague. The moral of the story people? Don’t be in too much of a rush. Be fairly contented with what you have; grow where you are. Be very careful what you whine and beg for; you might just get it, but in a manner that will eventually turn loathsome. Don’t worry, just be obedient, and The Lord will increase you in His own time. Much LOVE!…say it again…be very very careful what you ask for…you might just get it…
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