11:18-23
The Lord then says that He will indeed give the people meat, the meat they craved. However, this would not be the blessing that they imagined it would be. He would give them meat for a whole month, so that they would become sick of it. The people were complaining of eating the manna day after day, now they would become sick of the meat they craved. We need to be careful when we are going through difficult times. We need to be grateful for the Lord’s provision in the midst of those times. We see that Moses was not that great either, he cannot see where all this meat would come from. The Lord rebukes Moses, reminding him that His arm is not too short to do anything.
11:24,25
Moses informs the people of what the Lord had said to him, and then gathers seventy elders. The Lord gave some of the Spirit that was on Moses to the seventy elders. This “giving some of the Spirit” is a strange way of expressing things. It does tend to treat the Spirit here as a force, rather than a person. But then it says “as soon as the Spirit rested on them ...”, which is more consistent with our trinitarian understanding of the Spirit. Then the elders began to prophesy, but they did not continue to do so. In Acts a common sign of someone receiving the Holy Spirit was that they began to prophesy.
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