Introduction

The israelite people were held captive as slaves in egypt, then their god away performs a series of dazzling miracles and gets them out. Now, under the leadership moses, the freed israelites are headed to the promised land. Sounds like a success story, right? But it's not. It's a tragedy because they never got there. Why? Because from day one they started to ipand complain. They grabbed about the food they just got delivered from slavery, and now they're saying, this food's not all that hot. God himself became so irritated by their endless discontent that he barred the entire generation, moses included, from ever entering the promised land,. And