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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n Exodus 15:22\u201326 gives the account of Israel\u2019s murmuring at the bitter waters of Marah. At this very beginning part of their journey from the Red Sea toward Canaan, their water supplies were exhausted. They had hardly ceased their songs of thanksgiving and triumph before they raised a new cry\u2013\u2013 murmuring and complaining against God\u2019s great prophet who had just led them out of slavery. This was but the first of several times they would so behave. Their repeated, faithless complaints became so displeasing to God that He would later send a plague to destroy 14,700 of the ungrateful wretches (Num. 16:41\u201349). Still later God sent the fiery serpents to kill many others because for their murmuring and whining (21:4\u20136).<\/span><\/p>\n After a journey of three days from the Red Sea, they came to the waters of Marah, but they were \u201cbitter\u201d and undrinkable. The people murmured and complained. Moses brought the complaint of the people before God, Who pointed Moses to a certain tree, which, when cast into the water, made it sweet and drinkable. Could Moses have sweetened the water by substituting some other tree than the one God selected? Surely not. Had Moses\u2019 presumed to choose a different tree, reasoning, \u201cOne tree is as good as another,\u201d two results would have obtained: <\/span><\/p>\n Note some practical lessons:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNeither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer\u201d (1 Cor. 10:10).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in The Lighthouse, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Northpoint Church of Christ, Denton, TX, September 21, 2014, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0page.] Exodus 15:22\u201326 gives the account of Israel\u2019s murmuring at the bitter waters of Marah. At this very beginning part of their journey from the Red Sea toward Canaan, their water supplies…<\/p>\n\n
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