Israelites Gather Manna in the WildernessBible World
11:7Numbers 11:7
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
The manna was like coriander seed in shape and like bdellium in color. It was the healthy food designed for Israel, rained as bread from heaven and called angels' food, given to be eaten freely during the journey through the wilderness while meat was withheld in great measure though not prohibited. It was a simple, nourishing and sweet food when received with contentment with the allotted portion, which the people gathered and made into cakes, but it would not appeal to a morbid taste and was made loathsome by dissatisfaction.
It belonged to the leading of Israel out of Egyptian bondage through the wilderness to prove them, with the promise to be their God and to take them as His peculiar treasure and to put no disease upon them if they obeyed Him in all things. That provision was later rejected as insufficient, when the people became dissatisfied and longed for flesh meats, mourning and murmuring against Moses and against God because they could not have their desire. They wished themselves back in Egypt by the flesh pots, thus letting appetite control and preferring slavery and even death to being deprived of meat.
Their craving for meat was transgression, and in anger the request was granted and quails were given in abundance to that vast multitude to gratify lustful appetite. No miracle was worked to preserve life when they reaped the result, but plague came upon them and destroyed thousands, with great numbers dying in the act of eating while the flesh was yet between their teeth. This teaches that God is displeased when appetite controls His people.
The account teaches temperance in eating and drinking, that contentment is a blessing while discontent is a curse, and that becoming health reformers gives clearer minds to discern what does and does not affect the salvation of the soul.
The manna was like coriander seed in shape and like bdellium in color. It was the healthy food designed for Israel, rained as bread from heaven and called angels' food, given to be eaten freely during the journey through the wilderness while meat was withheld in great measure though not prohibited. It was a simple, nourishing and sweet food when received with contentment with the allotted portion, which the people gathered and made into cakes, but it would not appeal to a morbid taste and was made loathsome by dissatisfaction.
It belonged to the leading of Israel out of Egyptian bondage through the wilderness to prove them, with the promise to be their God and to take them as His peculiar treasure and to put no disease upon them if they obeyed Him in all things. That provision was later rejected as insufficient, when the people became dissatisfied and longed for flesh meats, mourning and murmuring against Moses and against God because they could not have their desire. They wished themselves back in Egypt by the flesh pots, thus letting appetite control and preferring slavery and even death to being deprived of meat.
Their craving for meat was transgression, and in anger the request was granted and quails were given in abundance to that vast multitude to gratify lustful appetite. No miracle was worked to preserve life when they reaped the result, but plague came upon them and destroyed thousands, with great numbers dying in the act of eating while the flesh was yet between their teeth. This teaches that God is displeased when appetite controls His people.
The account teaches temperance in eating and drinking, that contentment is a blessing while discontent is a curse, and that becoming health reformers gives clearer minds to discern what does and does not affect the salvation of the soul.