I like answers.
I want to know why.
I want to know how.
I want to know when.
I want the plan.
How are we going to get there from here? What's the tentative time line?
I'll be fine as long as we've got a game plan.
The Israelites were in the desert for over two years working on the LORD's Tabernacle.
That's a tent you know.
It was a pretty intricate endeavor - hammering out all the architecture, rituals, sacrifices, laws and feasts - Getting this motley crew of fugitive's feet set in a direction, where they could even begin to resemble a people set apart by God, was quite the task.
But still, a tent.
And once it was ready, they waited on the LORD to move.
Then, when they moved...they were still just wandering in the wilderness for another 38 years or so...
Numbers 9:15-23
On the day the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it...Whenever the cloud lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped...Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted they would set out. At the LORD's command they encamped, and at the LORD's command they set out. They obeyed the LORD's order, in accordance with his command through Moses.
