Sermons For Lent And Easter
Last Sunday we left the people of Israel at Mount Sinai where
they had received the commandments of God. They spent about a
year at this holy mountain. (They arrived at Sinai in Exodus
19:1; they did not break camp until Numbers 10:11.) In our text
for today, they are on the move again through the trackless
wilderness. Their wilderness wanderings were the best and the
worst of times for these chosen ones of God. On the one hand it
was the time when God and the people were on close and intimate
