Proof by Census

Reading:   Numbers 26

Not much jumped out at me today.  Maybe it was a lack of desire or it could be that I was distracted by all the balls I have juggling in the air; might have been the weather (back in the cold wintry Jackson Hole after a week in the sun of Las Vegas), fatigue is a distinct possibility, and there is always the chance that the content was just plain dry (no, couldn't be that).  Anyway, I'm going to squeak through today's blog with the ever-exciting fulfillment of a prophesy.

Moses was commanded to count the Israelites again (forty years after the first census) and, low and behold, all those counted in the first were gone, dead, deceased, pushing up the daisies, no longer (except Caleb and Joshua). BOOM - prophecy fulfilled!  Let's go to the original prophecy...

NUMBERS 14:29-31, 33

29    Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, 

30    Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 

31    But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 

33    And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. 

Now let's fast forward 40 years (yes, that familiar number has popped up again), to the fulfillment of the prophecy...

NUMBERS 26:63-65

63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. 

64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 

65 For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 

Just another example proving that The Lord does not mince words but follows through 100%. The prophecy was true, down to the given names of the two men that would remain, Caleb and Joshua.  Impressive to say the least!  There are two lessons here.  First, don't cast your lot with those that murmur or you will be summarily dealt with in God's time.  And second, believe in the prophesies of those called of God - they do come true!

~Kipling