Numbers 17

Well that's 2008 done with so a happy new year to all may 2009 treat you well.

I feel like woody at this moment in time, I hope you were all able to celebrate this well.

Numbers 17

¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

²Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.

³And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

⁴And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

⁵And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.

Are we not told by the god botherers that gambling is wrong ?

⁶And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

⁷And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.

⁸And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Then again gambling implies chance, knowing Moses as we do now. We know chance will not come into it.There is no doubt in my mind that a slight of hand trick was conducted here.

⁹And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

¹⁰And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

¹¹And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

¹²And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

¹³Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

I can sit here and laugh at the gullibility of these people, but honestly when you look at the talents of modern "magician's" especially when tricks are revealed you can excuse their simple mindedness and realise what a con artist Moses was. If you then couple this with mass hysteria(look at modern so called charismatic churches) you can see that what Moses achieved is as possible today.....look at the likes of David Koresch