IN OUR IGNORANCE OF NOT RIGHTLY UNDERSTANDING HOW OUR ELOHIM IS DOING THINGS, we must beware to not even indirectly speak against Him, put Him to the test, nor challenge Him.....lest we receive His judgment.....even unto death and to not enter His eternal rest. But if we do find we have even indirectly spoken against Him, we must earnestly repent and pray. Who knows, maybe He will grant us mercy, that we might be healed and live. Whether concerning our life circumstances, those who are chosen by Him to lead us, or matters concerning Torah and/or Messiah, we must take great care not to find ourselves even indirectly speaking against our Elohim, putting Him to the test, or challenging Him. It is an evil heart lacking trust and going astray into disobedient, deceitful sin and can result in a hardened heart and apostasy from our living Elohim. In His anger, to lovingly discipline us, we may receive His judgment, suffering sickness or even death, and even not entering His eternal rest. It just may be that we do not quite understand how He is doing things, even for our own good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The people spoke against God and against Moshe: Why did you bring us up out of Egypt? To die in the desert? There’s no real food, there’s no water, and we’re sick of this miserable stuff we’re eating! In response, Elohim sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Isra’el’s people died. The people came to Moshe and said, We sinned by speaking against Elohim and against you. Pray to Elohim that he rid us of these snakes. Moshe prayed for the people, and Elohim answered Moshe: Make a poisonous snake and put it on a pole. When anyone who has been bitten sees it, he will live. Moshe made a bronze snake and put it on the pole; if a snake had bitten someone, then, when he looked toward the bronze snake, he stayed alive. [Num. 21:5-9] Therefore, as the Ruach HaKodesh says, Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel on that day in the Wilderness when you put God to the test. Yes, your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, and they saw my work for forty years! Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation — I said, Their hearts are always going astray, THEY HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD HOW I DO THINGS; in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest. Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God! Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin. For we have become sharers in the Messiah, provided, however, that we hold firmly to the conviction we began with, right through until the goal is reached. Now where it says, Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel, who were the people who, after they heard, quarreled so bitterly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt. And with whom was God disgusted for forty years? Those who sinned — yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness! And to whom was it that he swore that they would not enter his rest? Those who were disobedient. So we see that they were unable to enter because of lack of trust. [Heb. 3:7-19]
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