SEEKING A NEW MASTER


When the children of Isreal had been in the wilderness for three months they arrived at Mt. Sinai.
The people heard and accepted God's covenant,and when God spoke to the people,
"They trembled and stood afar off,"(Ex 20:18) and asked Moses to get the Lord to speak through him.
If God wouldn't let them have Pharaoh as a master perhaps God would allow them to have Moses
as a master.However,while Moses was on the mount the people became restless and said
unto Aron;

Ex 32:1 make us gods, which shall go before us;

Amazing! Only four months into the wilderness and they still could not accept the
greatness and power of the Lord,and they made and worshipped idols. The Egyptian
bureacrats had schooled the Isrealites very well. They most have known once a
slave always a slave.

Shortly after the first day of the second month of the second year after they
left Egypt they were still complaining:

Num 11:4-5 And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Num 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely;
the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

The mixed multitude that was among them was a negative influence upon
the Israelites,constantly reminding them of the customs and good foods
that were in Egypt.But God said if it is meat you want,it is meat you
you shall get.In fact he said they would eat it.

Num 11:20 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?

They would not accept the perfect food from God.God's manna
had to be complete nourishment,and therefore a perfect food
source. When they rejected it,They rejected the LORD.


The LAST CHANCE

Later when spies were sent into the land of Canaan to report on the people and the fruit of the
land,they returned and many were afraid:

Num 13:32 And they gave the children of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, ........and all the people whom we saw in it [are] men of [great] stature.


Num 13:33...........'' and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

As a result of these reports the people wept and again murmured against Moses and Aaron ,
saying;

Num 14:2,4 ...... "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"
So they said to one another, "Let us select a captain and return to Egypt."


This was the last straw as far as God was concerned. He told Moses:

Num 14:22 because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

It was than that God told Moses to turn back to the wilderness and that all (save two) who were twenty years of age or older would die in the wilderness during the next 40 years , and He would bring only the young back to the promised land. It bears repeating that Moses brought the slave out of Egypt but could not take Egypt out of the slave.

During the years to come God brought a plague against some,and some were consumed by fire and an earthquake,and still they did not harken unto the LORD.Another time they were again without water:

Num 20:5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It [is] not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor [is] there any water to drink."

The problem was they were still good slaves of Pharaoh and not true servants of God .They remembered the flesh pots the leeks,onions,and coffins of Egypt and did not harken unto the LORD. and
continued to murmur against Moses and the LORD.

Num 21:5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For [there is] no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread."

This time God sent fiery serpents to bite them.Nothing God did satisfied them. The murmurings of the people continued,even into the promised land,until the future generations of those who died in the wilderness finally achieved what their forefathers could not do --- they finally became slave to a new
earthly master named Saul,who would make plenty of laws for them to obey. Even though they were warned what would happen to them if they had a king,they insisted.....God provided.

GOVERNMENTS ARE BABYLON


Throughout the centuries little has changed.Next came the great world empires mentioned in Daniel: the Babylonia empire, Medo-persia ,Greece, and the Roman empire. Than came the numerous small kingdoms of clay and iron which have plagued mankind into the 20th century.
Beasts are Kings ,Kingdoms, or governments. In the Exodus Pharaoh was a king or the head of the government and he had a bureaucracy to assist in the enforcement of the state's laws.The same was true for Alexander,for the Caesars ,and is true for the 20th century heads of government and their bureaucracies.The names and structures of government have changed and they have become more sophisticated but they still function as slave masters to their subjects.there are only degrees of slavery as there is no freedom in the world today.As long as government enforces it's will on the people,the people are slaves of the government.