This Is Why Moses Was Never Allowed Into The Promised Land

When God gives us instructions about specific tasks, the spirit of wisdom guides us on how to deliver those tasks the exact way God told us. However, there is also the choice of disobedience lurking and waiting to trap us. For instance, God instructed Moses to speak to the rock, but in anger he struck the rock twice. He allowed his anger to get the best of him, instead of letting the spirit of God lead him into obedience. In Numbers 20, Moses and the congregation came to the wilderness of Zin. Numbers 20, 1-13 AMP says, Then the Israelites, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, in the fortieth year after leaving Egypt. And the people lived in Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there. Now there was no water for the congregation, and they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. The people contended with Moses and said, If only we had perished when our brothers perished in the plague before the Lord! Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness to die here, we and our livestock? Why have you made us come up from Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates, and there is no water to drink. Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting, tabernacle, and fell on their faces before the Lord in prayer. Then the glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared to them, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take the rod, and you and your brother Aaron, assemble the congregation and speak to the rock in front of them, so that it will pour out its water. In this way you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and let the congregation and their livestock drink fresh water. In frustration with the people of God, Moses chose to strike the rock instead of speaking to it. So Moses took the rod from before the Lord, just as he had commanded him, and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. Moses said to them, Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock? Then Moses raised his hand in anger, and with his rod he struck the rock twice, instead of speaking to the rock as the Lord had commanded. And the water poured out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank fresh water. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you have not believed, trusted me, to treat me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, you, therefore, shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. These are the waters of Meribah, contention, strife, where the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and he showed himself holy among them. Earlier in Exodus, the Lord did instruct Moses to strike the rock to produce water. In Exodus 17, Moses obeyed God by striking the rock. However, in Numbers 20, Moses disobeyed God by striking the rock rather than speaking to it. New Testament scripture in 1 Corinthians teaches that the rock in the desert was intended by God to be a picture of his son Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 10, 1-4 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. When the Lord instructed Moses to strike the rock in Exodus 17, he intended to establish a picture of Christ as our Redeemer. In Psalms and Isaiah, it is stated repeatedly that Christ is our rock and cornerstone, who has been struck, that is, killed for our sake, and he will bring forth streams of living water. John 4, 10 Amplified Bible Jesus answered her, If you knew about God's gift of eternal life, and who it is who says, Give me a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you living water, eternal life. Furthermore, the book of Hebrews states that Christ died once and for all, and that no further sacrifice for sins is required. So the Lord intended Moses to strike the rock in the desert only once, in the Exodus 17 scene, thus picturing Jesus sacrificed only once to bring us salvation. When Moses chose to strike the rock a second time, he threw a wrench into the picture painted in Exodus 17. Had God not corrected Moses' error, we would have been perplexed by the distorted view, concluding that Christ, by which we mean the rock, had to be sacrificed repeatedly for our salvation. As a result, God rebuked Moses to ensure that we understood the image of the rock preventing him from entering the promised land correctly. During the process, the Lord created a new image to support a correct understanding of salvation. By excluding Moses from the promised land, the Lord demonstrated that we could not enter salvation, i.e., the promised land, through the works of the law, i.e., Moses, but only through the work of Jesus, that means by Joshua, which is the name Yeshua or Jesus. This means that as great and godly as Moses was, his weakness was anger. It was through this anger that the devil was able to draw him in to sin against the Lord. Many of us use our anger as an excuse to live wrongly, instead of dealing with this weakness so that it doesn't hurt us in the future. We see that this action from Moses robbed him of the privilege of entering the promised land. Ecclesiastes 12, 13-14. Amplified Bible. When all has been heard, the end of the matter is. Fear God, worship him with awe-filled reverence, knowing that he is almighty God and keep his commandments, for this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, every hidden and secret thing, whether it is good or evil. In the end, the purpose of this is not to confuse us, but rather to demonstrate that as creations fashioned in his image, although we are intended to be intellectually complicated, we are required to have a relationship with our maker founded on trust. This may be one of the reasons why people choose to disobey God. The Bible never tries to deny that people who love God and are godly can sometimes fall short. And this is probably because the Father wants us to understand that being known and called by the name of God doesn't shield us from temptations. It doesn't matter how long we have become believers or have been walking by faith, we must never forget that we have an adversary who constantly watches us, so that he can discover a weakness and have a foothold on us.