assurances of God. They had seen and certainly tasted the cluster of fruit that more than verified, beyond their wildest imaginations, just how accurate God had been when He had described the land to them. They had sat on the proverbial pew at Sinai, basking in His glory, hearing His voice, seeing His power descend from on high, just as He does when we sit in our churches Sunday after Sunday. And yet . . . Nevertheless. This was the word that turned a forty-day excursion into a forty-year, self-imposed death sentence. The people saw, but they chose not to believe. Let’s just call it what it
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