A Cautionary Tale: The Unbelief of Israel in the Wilderness

Israel's failure in the wilderness is used as a warning by the writers of the New Testament.

Israel had been carefully taught a worldview of sudden catastrophe. This is the lens from which they viewed life. They didn't change that lens when they were freed from Egypt. They viewed all that was happening to them as the journeyed to the Promised Land through the expectation that it would end badly for them.

When the refused to go up in the Promised Land and return to an Egypt that had been altered in their memories, they disqualified themselves from service.

The same could happen to us if we are not careful.