Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Numbers 11:24-29
by: Dale E. Rood.
Here, Moses is telling the people via the seventy elders how God is going to provide meat for this large throng of Israelites (vs. 21–23). We find in this incident a power encounter with God. Here is an important lesson Joshua must learn if he is to be a leader: you cannot and must not try to put God “in a box”! The fact that the two elders were prophesying in the camp was “outside the box.” When God displays His power in ways we don’t fully understand, do we try to dismiss it because it isn’t “in our box”?