Why did Moses and the children of Israel spend forty years wondering in the desert? If you believe the Moses spin that is up front in the Bible it was because they were afraid of the giants in the land. This is what happened but after all the heavenly assistance rendered to them as they escaped captivity in Egypt, why would they fear a few giants and hostile peoples? Their fear overwhelmed them because the killings at Mount Sinai was a choice to live by the point of a sword. Moses had taken control away from God and they were on their own, a human religion had replaced God.
Eventually and without exception human strength will turn to weakness. Crossing the Jordan River and possessing the promised land was to much to ask of a religion lead people. They retreated into the desert where they wandered for 40 years. To all those who say that God kills to get his own way, you are wrong. If God is a killer God, Jesus would have raised an army! To all those Biblical literalists who believe that Moses was marching to the kill at the direction of God, you really don’t know God.
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
