“And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
And you murmured in your tents, and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us' -- the murmuring ('murmuring in your tents') shows how rebellion metastasizes in the community. The accusation that the LORD 'hates' them inverts the historical reality: the LORD brought them out in love. Despair masquerades as theology; they confuse circumstances with divine disposition. Their conclusion (destruction in Canaan) ignores the pattern of divine deliverance.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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