Raising Giant Killers (Part 7 Notes)

Therefore humble yourselves under the
mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.

1 Peter 5:6 (NKJV)

You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come.

Psalm 102:13 (NKJV)

• Av – Father
• 9th of Av – Tisha B’Av
• 1st & 2nd Temples Destroyed
• Battle at Betar Lost
• Romans Plow Under the Temple Mount
• Jews Expelled From England
• Jews Banished From Spain
• World Wars I/II Began 
• Death Camps mark the Start of the Holocaust
• The Spies Return With a Bad Report

“We went to the land to which you sent us and, oh! It does flow with milk and honey! Just look at this fruit! The only thing is that the people who live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of the giant Anak. Amalekites are spread out in the Negev; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites hold the hill country; and the Canaanites are established on the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan.”

30 Caleb interrupted, called for silence before Moses and said, “Let’s go up and take the land—now. We can do it.”

31-33 But the others said, “We can’t attack those people; they’re way stronger than we are.” They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, “We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it’s a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers.”

Numbers 13:27-33 (MSG) 

The whole community was in an uproar, wailing all night long. All the People of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The entire community was in on it: “Why didn’t we die in Egypt? Or in this wilderness? Why has God brought us to this country to kill us? Our wives and children are about to become plunder. Why don’t we just head back to Egypt? And right now!”

4 Soon they were all saying it to one another: “Let’s pick a new leader; let’s head back to Egypt.”

5 Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.

6-9 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, members of the scouting party, ripped their clothes and addressed the assembled People of Israel: “The land we walked through and scouted out is a very good land—very good indeed. If God is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land that flows, as they say, with milk and honey. And he’ll give it to us. Just don’t rebel against God! And don’t be afraid of those people. Why, we’ll have them for lunch! They have no protection and God is on our side. Don’t be afraid of them!”

10-12 But, up in arms now, the entire community was talking of hurling stones at them.

Numbers 14:1-12 (MSG) 

How important is it that we move when God says move?

The nation of Israel preferred slavery over the Promise

What were the people afraid of?   Giants

• Fear
• Hardship
• Battle
• Unknown

“See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”

Deuteronomy 1:8 NIV

“On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the Lord said to Moses, 51 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, 52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. 53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.”

Numbers 33:50-53

• Joshua – Ephraim (fruitful)
• Caleb – Judah (praise)

Will we be men and women of a different spirit?

Are you the giant killing generation?