Faithless Grumblers
We have all experienced when our faith is plundered and when the vultures come. Yahshua (Jesus) says, “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather” (Matthew 24:28). There is no life in us, apart from the life our Savior has activated by our faith in Him. If we do not have His life, we are as dead meat. We are just bundles of flesh and carnality, carcasses devoid of life. There will be vultures waiting to take and devour whatever remnant of faith is left in us. They will take whatever residual courage remains and peck away at it until we are carnage.
“Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried [after the bad report from the 10 spies], and the people wept that night” (Numbers 14:1). They were weeping out of fear, all Yahveh (the Lord) had done they had forgotten. “And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, ‘Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!” (Numbers 14:2).
What a defamation of the character of the Mighty One of Israel who had done great and mighty things, yet the Israelites say, “He brought us here to kill us,” doubting His love, after all His love had been displayed. “Why is Yahveh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt [the world]?” (Numbers 14:3).
There are a lot of people on this journey who turn and go back to the world. They think that the giants are too big, the cost is too high, or the warfare is too great. They think that the comfort is too little; trials and hardships, rejections, loneliness, fears, and all the testings of our faith are too much—so many turn back. “So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt” (Numbers 14:4). They forget that they had progressed so far by the mighty miracles of Yahveh (the Lord), by the truths He had revealed and used to liberate them; yet they turned back and started grumbling against the very truth that had set their souls free.
