they began to chide with Moses, bitterly complaining against him at Kadesh- barnea, ‘Meribah’ ; Moses becomes angry, and fails to obey The Lord.
Numbers 20
‘ And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. And the people chastised Mos es, and Spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! ’ So, Moses and Aaron responded by going to The Lord and appearing before Him. There The Lord instructs them to speak to The Rock and water will pour out. “ Take the rod, and gather all the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak ye to the rock before their eyes ; and it shall give forth his water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. ” But then in an act of disobedience Moses, instead of speaking to the Rock , strikes the rock, twice! “ And The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you believed me not , to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. ” As a result of Moses’ disobedience The Lord does not allow him to enter the Promised land; but he dies outside the camp on Mount Nebo. Here is the understanding; Moses is so integrally created to mirror The Lord that his very death, through disobedience, is a prophetic reflection of Jesus being crucified outside the camp for the disobedience of the people ; Struck by The Lord.
Here in Zechariah ’s prophecy of The King it is clearly understood.
Zechariah 13: 6-7
‘ And one shall say unto Him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against The Man that is my fellow, says The Lord of Hosts: ‘ SMITE’ The Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered . ’
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