Arikm, Quote:And how many of them entered the promised land?

604,030.. These were men from the age of 20 to 60, this does not include the women or those of the male population under 20 and over 60, which could push the number as high as one million. This according to Numbers 26

But what does this have to do with Moses or his duties or G-d's revealing of His Divine Nature?? who's doing a "rabbit trail" now?


You had better check again - the answer is zero of that generation coming out of Egypt who stood at Mt. Sinai above the age of 20 - with the exception of Caleb and Joshua. None of those who you "claim" became righteous by repentance and good works, made it into the promised land. They didn't make it because they didn't believe God,
they lacked faith, which in similitude, faith which we Christians say is the fundamental ingredient for entering the world to come. Down at the end of this post I provided the verses that substantiate my position.

Numbers 26:64 kjv 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.

26:65 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.


It has to do with your erroneous claim that the Children of Israel were spared - not because Moses interceded, but "because Israel itself had spent 40 days in mourning and in tshuvah", as you say.

The ones who did make it in - it was not for their righteousness. Moses speaking.... Deut 9:6 kjv Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.


not for their righteousness - that takes all the wind out of the sails of your claim.

Futhermore, it was because of Moses's intercession that the Children of Israel were spared that day at Mt. Sinai.

9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven : and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.


That doesn't sound too good, does it? But look at what Moses did...

9:18 And I [Moses] fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. [My comment: that sounds in similitude what we Christians say that Jesus did for all of our sins, to me].

9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.


Where do you read anything about God making a decision not to destroy the Children of Israel based upon their repentance and good works in that verse?

Let's see who destroyed the sin of the Children of Israel....

9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. [My comment: in similitude, that is like we Christians believe that Jesus destroyed our sin on the cross.]

What I am showing Arikm, the similitude between the acts of Moses with those of Jesus. But Jesus was in the Christian view addressing a much larger picture, not of entering a land on this present earth, but the world to come.

The Children of Israel, all of those over 20, did not enter the promise land because they didn't believe God when he told them to go in and possess the land. It was not an issue of repentance and good works. It was an issue of faith. Here is the verse.

9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

Doug L.
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