1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them…. 26 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there….. 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Num 13: 1-2,26-28,30-33
Q & A：
- What happened when God asked Moses to send out the 12 spies into the Promise Land? Describe the difference in behavior between the crabs and the geese. (Num 13:26-28,30-31)
- What is the prerequisite for spiritual success and victory? (Numbers 13:1-2; Jeremiah 29:13-14a)
- What does it mean to have a grasshopper’s mentality? How to overcome it? (Numbers 13:31-33; Daniel 11:32b)
- What was Caleb’s characteristics and how was it rewarded? (Numbers 14:24; Hebrews 11:6; Joshua 14:7-8,12-13)