40 years of wandering in the desert wilderness come and go and… …once again a second chance to enter the Promised Land arrives. However, this time it will be the 2nd generation of Israelites who will take hold of the Lord’s promises. And unlike their parents, there will be no hesitancy or reluctance. The younger […]

After the 12 men appointed to spy out the land return to the camp of Moses, 10 out of the 12 men come back with a negative report about how well-armed, big and strong the Canaanites are. Their fear-based report ends up spreading around the camp and infects the rest of the people who promptly […]

After a long and arduous journey, the Israelites finally arrive at KADESH. Soon after Moses commissions 12 leaders from each tribe to go and spy out the land so the Israelites will know what they’ll be up against when they attempt to take the land by force.  Moses knows full well the Canaanites aren’t going […]

The Israelites end up camping at the base of Mount Sinai for about a whole year. Afterwards, at God’s orders Moses leads the people to a place called Kadesh-Barnea, an oasis compared to the harsh desert conditions they had been living under for a good year or so. Kadesh was located on the southern border […]

So among one of many round trips up and down the mountain to receive instructions from the Lord, one day on the way back down, Moses returned to find that the impatient Israelites had built themselves a Golden Calf to worship. A couple of points about this incident. First, we have to understand that the […]