Numbers 11:10-15

The grumbling started with the mixed multitude that went with them, and then it spread to them. What did they attack? God Himself—the very hope of productive lives in the weekly reminder of the work that only our Great God can do. They literally told God that they despised what He had given them to sustain life, wanting more of what they thought would satisfy their carnal lusts.

Even Moses was getting worn down showing itself in failing to remember all that God had done to bring them to this point, with unlimited power. Although, we see in verses 16-17, God provided Moses with the help he needed to continue. Apparently, He saw in Moses’ almost overwhelming frustration and his own recognition of his failures to live up to his responsibilities (Numbers 11:15), and that he needed a way of escape, which God provided (Numbers 11:16-30).

But with those who complained (with rebellion in their hearts), literally despising what God had provided to keep them whole and sound now for year—He was furious!

Numbers 11:12

The next thing he says is that He was in the bosom of the Father. That is, as I mentioned in the last time, it implies the deepest kind of intimacy. Look in Numbers 11:12 and Deuteronomy 13:6, where it is used in connection with a wife—"in the bosom of your youth" I think is the way the verse in Numbers 11 puts it. See, it denotes intimacy. The purpose of this is to say to you and me that there is no one who could possibly declare the Father the way the Son did. There was nobody ever close to the Father. He saw the Father, He heard His words, He received His orders from Him, and so there was no one who has ever been able to reveal the Father the way the Christ could.

Numbers 11:12-13

Moses renounces responsibility for the people and in hopeless anguish contemplates the impossibility of finding meat for the people. He was looking at it from a human standpoint.