The first great event the children saw in the second year of the journey to Canaan was the keeping of the Passover Feast, which many Hebrew children since have seen.
Soon after, they saw the tents taken down and all marched from Sinai.
How glad they must have been when they heard they had come to the border of the good land God had promised; and how beautiful the fine fruits the spies brought, must have seemed! But they were disappointed: the men were afraid to go in, and they had to live a long time in the wild lands, and not much is told of those years.
They saw the dreadful sight when the ground opened and the three families, whose fathers had spoken against God, fell into the earth. But the children of the leader, Korah, “died not’’, and long after sons of that family were singers in the Tabernacle, Numbers 26:11; 1 Chron. 6:31-38; and Psalm 84 was one of their songs.
The children must have seen animals taken to sacrifice for sins, and have learned that was God’s way then to forgive them.
Every day they saw the cloud which sheltered them from the hot sun, and every bight they saw the pillar of fire lighting the camp. No other children ever saw those.
They would see the serpent of brass up on the pole; Aaron’s rod that grew almonds; the silver trumpets; and perhaps yon, can think of more.
At last, after forty years, they were ready to enter Canaan, but the boys and girls who left Egypt were grown up. We will read of them and their children there.
It is good for us to remember about that strange journey, for it makes us know better God’s holy ways, yet His care for all His people.
“O satisfy us early with Thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” Psalms 90:14.
ML 02/06/1938