I understand that leaving Egypt represents salvation. Since we were set free from bondage and a cruel task master, Satan, who we didn’t even know we served. But leaving Egypt, just to wander in rebellion and unbelief is not my idea of Christian living. Israel, during their wandering, did have times of victory over enemy nations, but far too often, the wilderness journey was a life of rebellion, complaining and unbelief.
The book of Hebrews reminds us of what that generation of Israelites were the most remembered for.
“Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known My ways. So I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in ...
