The Torah reading דְּבָרִים Devarim ("words," Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22) recounts the roller-coaster ride of Israel from deliverance to defiance between the House of Bondage (Egypt), the Mountain of the Testimony (Sinai) and the Land of Freedom-Rest (Promised Land).
Moses couldn't soft-pedal it: The first generation believed the 10 spies' bad report about the impossibility to occupy the Promised Land, rather than the good report of the two spies, Caleb and Joshua, affirmed by Moses and God Himself.
So too, many of the generation that Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus) came to in the flesh believed the lies of their faithless shepherds rather than the simple faithful witness of the Torah.
The roller-coaster ride of ancient Israel fluctuated between of periods of trust in the LORD, apathy and rebellion mirrors the turmoil that swirls around our daily lives today.
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