Israel’s supplies had
dwindled. The desolation of the Wilderness of Sin was almost unbearable. In every direction, edible plants were sparse
and any wild game to feed this great multitude had departed with the thunder of
a million feet. Famished, Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron saying, “Oh,
that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by
the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! “For you have brought us
out into this wilderness to kill
this whole assembly with hunger.”
Talk
about unfair. Did Moses twist their arms and force them to leave Egypt?
Slavery
is a brutal way of life. God heard Israel’s cries for deliverance and He rescued them.
Now
extreme hunger distorted their memory. The “pots of meat and …bread to the
full…” eaten as slaves, were
not as good as they remembered and in blaming Moses and
Aaron, Israel's complaints were really
against God.