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A Futile Invasion Attempt

39 Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, aand the people mourned greatly.  
40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, a“Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned!”  
41 And Moses said, “Now why do you1 transgress the command of the Lord? For this will not succeed.  
42 aDo not go up, lest you be defeated by your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.  
43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; abecause you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”  
44 aBut they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.  
45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as aHormah. 
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Numbers 14:41

God's command was, "You will wander thirty-eight more years in the wilderness, and your bodies will be strewn all over the place. And, since you refused to go into the Land, I'm not going to allow you to go in at all. The next generation will take your place." Moses says that their futile attempt to go into the Promised Land is refusing the command of the Lord. Disobeying. Transgressing.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Presumptuousness

Related Topics: Disobedience | Presumptuousness | Promised Land | Transgressing | Transgression | Transgressions



Numbers 14:41-45

There was no mercy from God for this presumptuous sin. These people were warned. They were told explicitly that what they were doing was a sin, what would happen, and that God would not be with them. But they went anyway! They presumed to go up to the mountaintop.

So another thing about presumptuous sin is that it is continuing proudly in the face of advice (and warning) to the contrary. What we see here is that presumptuousness can be rash on the one hand and quite premeditated on the other. But the constant concept behind these things is pride, arrogance, defiance, self-importance, and self-reliance.

It is an ambitious "go get 'em" attitude—one is going to succeed in what you want to do, come hell or high water. No matter what happens, a person will to carry through on his plan—even if God Himself should say, "Don't do it!"

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Presumptuousness

Related Topics: " Come Hell or High Water" | "Go Get' Em Attitude" | Arrogance | Continuing Proudly in the Face of Advice | Defiance | Ignoring Warnings | Premeditated Sin | Premeditation | Presumptuousness | Pride | Rash Sin | Rashness | Self-Importance | Self-Reliance


 
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