And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses records Israel's first journey from Sinai, undertaken in the order God commanded through Moses. The departure began at the signal from the trumpeters, with the entire camp setting forward together in order. The people followed signals that communicated and directed their movements, while all eyes watched anxiously to see which way the cloud would lead.
The travel was carefully arranged, with each tribe in its appointed position under its own standard. The tabernacle was borne in the midst of the marching host, with the Levites carrying the ark as appointed. As the cloud moved toward the east where only black and desolate mountain masses lay, sadness and doubt arose in many hearts.
This first taking up of the wilderness march was part of the higher education given by Christ Himself as the invisible Leader and Teacher of more than a million people His own hand had delivered from Egyptian bondage. The march itself was a lesson in order, unity, discipline and obedience to God's directions. Every person had an assigned part with no idlers in the encampment, the people following where their educators led so that even their very tread taught order.
Through this journey Christ taught His people to train their children to be practical in all service to God and pure, clean and holy in obeying all His commandments, which gives no purer and stronger intelligence. The Leader gave Moses special directions for the responsible men that as they advanced step by step the children were to be taught singing as they journeyed, with the commandments of God set to song. Through the forty years of wilderness wandering young and old were given a variety of exercises demanding brain, bone and muscle. Every lesson was to be preserved in writing to be given by Moses to the people in their travels, and nothing in the plan or management was to be criticized.
And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses records Israel's first journey from Sinai, undertaken in the order God commanded through Moses. The departure began at the signal from the trumpeters, with the entire camp setting forward together in order. The people followed signals that communicated and directed their movements, while all eyes watched anxiously to see which way the cloud would lead.
The travel was carefully arranged, with each tribe in its appointed position under its own standard. The tabernacle was borne in the midst of the marching host, with the Levites carrying the ark as appointed. As the cloud moved toward the east where only black and desolate mountain masses lay, sadness and doubt arose in many hearts.
This first taking up of the wilderness march was part of the higher education given by Christ Himself as the invisible Leader and Teacher of more than a million people His own hand had delivered from Egyptian bondage. The march itself was a lesson in order, unity, discipline and obedience to God's directions. Every person had an assigned part with no idlers in the encampment, the people following where their educators led so that even their very tread taught order.
Through this journey Christ taught His people to train their children to be practical in all service to God and pure, clean and holy in obeying all His commandments, which gives no purer and stronger intelligence. The Leader gave Moses special directions for the responsible men that as they advanced step by step the children were to be taught singing as they journeyed, with the commandments of God set to song. Through the forty years of wilderness wandering young and old were given a variety of exercises demanding brain, bone and muscle. Every lesson was to be preserved in writing to be given by Moses to the people in their travels, and nothing in the plan or management was to be criticized.