And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Eldad and Medad prophesied in the camp, and a young man ran and told Moses about it. Although they had not joined the seventy elders at the tabernacle, the Lord's Spirit rested upon them in the camp and they exercised the prophetic gift. Their prophesying was an expression of the Spirit's gift, not rebellion or a threat to Moses' leadership.
Moses welcomed their prophesying and expressed the wish that all the Lord's people might receive the Spirit and prophesy. Others can prophesy alongside the appointed leader, even when their prophecies are not published. Such prophesying did not place Eldad and Medad in Moses' leading position, distinguishing others who prophesy from the one who holds leadership.
The verse belongs to the wilderness account in which God gave Israel manna from heaven as angels' food, yet the people were dissatisfied and longed for flesh meat with mourning and murmuring. God granted their craving by giving the vast multitude quails in abundance, and when they reaped the result of their transgression He did not miraculously preserve life, but plague came while the flesh was still between their teeth and destroyed thousands. The account shows that health reform and temperance in eating and drinking give clearer minds to discern what affects the salvation of the soul.
Eldad and Medad prophesied in the camp, and a young man ran and told Moses about it. Although they had not joined the seventy elders at the tabernacle, the Lord's Spirit rested upon them in the camp and they exercised the prophetic gift. Their prophesying was an expression of the Spirit's gift, not rebellion or a threat to Moses' leadership.
Moses welcomed their prophesying and expressed the wish that all the Lord's people might receive the Spirit and prophesy. Others can prophesy alongside the appointed leader, even when their prophecies are not published. Such prophesying did not place Eldad and Medad in Moses' leading position, distinguishing others who prophesy from the one who holds leadership.
The verse belongs to the wilderness account in which God gave Israel manna from heaven as angels' food, yet the people were dissatisfied and longed for flesh meat with mourning and murmuring. God granted their craving by giving the vast multitude quails in abundance, and when they reaped the result of their transgression He did not miraculously preserve life, but plague came while the flesh was still between their teeth and destroyed thousands. The account shows that health reform and temperance in eating and drinking give clearer minds to discern what affects the salvation of the soul.