Giant Joshua — Leonard Ravenhill

Joshua Receives Moses’s Commission

After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give them, even to the children of Israel.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. I was going to say last Sunday, but I don't like that word, it's a heathen word. I like the word Sabbath, that's a scriptural word.

Sunday is a pagan word. The old Quakers used to talk about the Sabbath day, and then the first day of the week, and the second, and they'll say, friend, I'll meet thee on the third day of the week. And you would reply, friend, I will see thee on the third day of the week.

But now we've paganized the week, and so we have Monday, and the school teachers will tell you what all the other days mean. Wednesday, the day of Woden, Thursday, the day of Thor, and so forth and so on.

The last Sabbath we did consider the, what we called, mighty Moses. At least we considered that aspect of his life where he was called in the midst of the burning bush. Now, as we've just read here, Moses, my servant, is dead.

Would you like to have followed him? Not a head. Well, they're all shaking, but this way, not this way. Would you like to take on, I don't know how many, nobody does, they've estimated a million, as many as five million disgruntled, dissatisfied, disappointed, dejected people.

And you think you have problems with the two you know. But, how would you like to handle about five million of them? What do you do after mighty Moses? Well, you get a giant Joshua. It's the only thing you can do.

Joshua as the Successor to Moses

I was trained in a little church where the pastor was always saying, or said very often, God buries his workmen, but he carries on his work. And it's amazing how one chapter can close, and another chapter opens in the history of the church.

Now, this is one of the great books of the Bible. I think Joshua was an amazing man of faith. He couldn't finish a job one day. Maybe like Brother John here, but, and he said, well it's been bad weather or something, and I need an extra hour or two.

And so he said to the sun, stand still on Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Adullam. Now, if you don't think that takes faith, I'm prepared to go outside and let you demonstrate your faith tonight.

I think it does. And yet, despite the fact that he did such amazing things in faith, he's not found in Hebrews 11, the chapter of faith. But there is a whole book here called the book of Joshua, and that's more than we have of Moses.

We don't have the book of Moses. But God has a wonderful way of balancing things out. You have a book of Joshua, no book of Moses. But Joshua is not mentioned in Hebrews 11, except by inference, the walls of Jericho fell down.

We always chime in with that. But Moses gets more space in Hebrews 11 than anybody else, so you see the Lord balances it out one way or another. This book of Joshua is, to me, and it's a very obvious thing, I think.

Well, let's say this, the first 12 chapters in this book of Joshua are describing the conquest of Canaan. We used to sing a little hymn, Come over into Canaan's land, where the grapes of Eshcol grow, and the milk and honey flow.

Come over into Canaan's land. I guess the folk in England wish they were there right now. I see the water is turned off 17 hours a day now. They've no money, they've no water, they've no work. I don't know what they'll do next.

But to be in that land of Canaan, it was a very beckoning country to them. The grapes of Eshcol grow, the milk and honey flow. And sometimes we lay a lot of emphasis on that aspect. It's described as the spirit for life.

Come over into Canaan. Joshua does what Moses could not do. Moses brought them out of Egypt, up to the edge of the promised land, and then because of disobedience. Isn't it? Doesn't God punish us severely sometimes?

He only got mad for 50 seconds. You'd be mad much longer than that. But he only got mad for 50 seconds, and he got kicked out of the country. He wasn't allowed to go into the land that he'd expected to go in.

Just for getting angry a few minutes. Severe punishment. But he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, and he brought them into the wilderness, but he couldn't take them over into Canaan's land.

And so Joshua does what Moses could not do. Moses brought them out, he couldn't get them in. Joshua got them in, but he couldn't give them rest. There remaineth a rest for the people of God. So often we quote, and rightly so, the 11th chapter of Matthew, the great saying of Jesus, Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Period. No. A comma there. The other half is, over the bridge, Take my yoke upon you, learn of me, and ye shall find rest. They've already got rest, it says so in the verse. Yeah, they've got rest from their sins.

But they haven't entered into the rest. There remaineth a rest. You know, really, to be in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ is really the most relaxed thing in the world. My, my, my.

If everybody entered in, the drug stores would all close down. Psychiatrists would be out of work. Have to close hospitals down. Heavens, what wouldn't we have to do? But you see, there is a price to pay.

We think of the promised land as luscious, grapes of Esk and everything. But remember this, please. There were 31 kings in that promised land too. It says strive to enter into that rest in Hebrews, what, 2 or 3?

There's opposition all the way. It's not all downhill, it's all uphill. It's not all ease, it's conquest. Every area you surrender in your life to God, Satan will fight like the devil he is to get it back.

That's why he works on us so much. He doesn't need to work on the other folk outside. He's got them. But he's envious, he's jealous of those areas in our lives that he's been crowded out of. Because God has come and changed us.

The Books of Moses and the Structure of Scripture

He's brought us out of Egypt. Otherwise, as the word says, he's brought us out of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son. Now, this wonderful book. My, sometimes I think I'd like to live another hundred, not just to be a hundred, another hundred years and sit and read it and explore it and exploit it.

Because it is, again, the most profound thing in the whole world. The revelation of God himself. Now, as you know, Genesis. Genesis is what? Well, it's the book of beginnings, isn't it? There are at least three beginnings there, how God made the heavens, and there are heavens and the earth.

And then there is the story of the flood, and after the flood, a new world is begun, as it were. And then after that, there's God's choice of Abraham. Then you have the book of Exodus. What is the book of Exodus?

Well, in one word, if you want it doctrinally, it's the book of redemption. It's the place where blood is shed. The lintels are put across the lintels and the doorposts, and there the blood is shed. Leviticus is the book of worship and fellowship.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers. Well, that's an interesting book. You know, the way we read the word of God very often, I think we're cheated. Because, as I said the other day, sometimes the dividing of a chapter, we think one thing follows immediately after the other, and there may be a space of scores or dozens of years.

Now, this book of Leviticus is very interesting. There are 27 chapters. And when you read those 27, and then read the next 10 chapters in the next book, what comes after Leviticus? Numbers. All right.

You've got 37 chapters. Do you know how much of the history of the children of Israel they cover? Two months. That's all. You see, God is showing us the way of fellowship and the way of worship, and so you get all that description there in the book of Leviticus, and I'm not going to stay there anyhow.

Numbers is the wilderness place. Going through the wilderness. An extended interpretation of God's dealings with the children of Israel. You know, they came up to the promised land, but they zigzag. They do a lot of backsliding.

They get up there, and they go back, and then they're wandering. Wandering is the right word. There's no direction to it. They're just wandering almost aimlessly. And then we come to, what's the other book now?

Deuteronomy is, of course, a bridge. The four books before Deuteronomy tell us about the children of Israel before they came into the promised land. The next books after, because Deuteronomy is a bridge, and the next seven books that come afterwards, they just show us the workings of God in His people.

Deuteronomy’s Lessons in Humility and Dependence

Now, let's go back to this wonderful character. No, I'll do something else before that. Let me go back a minute or two here into Deuteronomy chapter 8. This is a Bible study, not a sermon. Deuteronomy 8.

And in the second verse, God says, Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee. These 40 years in the wilderness. Now, why did He lead them that way? Well, here is the explanation in the same verse.

Number one, to humble thee. Number two, to prove thee. Number three, to know what is in thine heart. Verse three, He humbled thee, He suffered thee, and He fed thee with manna. Why? Manna which thou knewest not.

They'd never had this before. Neither did your fathers know it. That He might make thee to know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

You see, they're told here to remember all the way that God had led them for 40 years. Now, you see, when they were down in that lush country, remember again, they were in Goshen, they were in one of the most fertile areas of the world, and they had no problem feeding themselves.

You see, there was no river Nile running through the wilderness. The river Nile was running down in Egypt where they had been in bondage. And the Nile overflowed its banks and it brought the greatest fertilization that man has ever known.

It brought a rich deposit and that whole area was fertile and everything. You threw the seed in the ground and up it came, 60, 80, 100 fold. They never had any problems. But when they got in the wilderness, they did.

They had no rich river Nile, they hadn't the other things that they'd usually had previously. And so God has to provide them with something that they'd never had before. He makes them totally dependent upon himself and they'd not been dependent upon himself before.

He has to send them bread every day. He has to supply the water and so forth and so on. In verse 6 of that chapter, he says, Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God to walk in his ways.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks and waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of olive oil, the oil of the olive and honey, a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he doth give. But beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God. Now he has to say this over and over and over and over again.

It's true of all of us, we're forgetful. That's why we need to tell ourselves again and again, count your blessing. For instance, if I said to you right now, I won't, not because it wouldn't embarrass me, it might embarrass you, but if I said to you today, did you thank God for your eyesight?

Oh no, well it's there every morning I wake up. Well if it isn't there tomorrow morning, what would the first thing be? Would you call brother Herb or myself or somebody else and say, I don't know what happened, but I can't get my eyes open, I can't see, I can't see.

Now that's one of the greatest blessings in the world. The blessing of sight. Our senses, our freedom, we take these things in our status quo. You see. And God is repeatedly saying to the children of India, remember thou wast a bondsman in Egypt, remember the way that I brought you, remember the condition of your fathers.

All right, they have to look back, and I'm just reminding you of that, they must look back before they can look forward. In Exodus 17 and verse 9, we have the first mention at least that I can find, of this man who is going to be one of the great men of history, this man Joshua.

Joshua’s First Leadership in Battle

In verse 6, remember now, he says, Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Mount Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock. All right. In verse 8, he says, Then came Amalek and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out, men, and go out and fight with Amalek tomorrow. I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. Verse 10, So Joshua did as Moses said. Verse 13, Joshua discomfited, or, he destroyed the enemy.

Verse 14, The Lord said unto Moses, Notice this, write this from a memorial in a book, and rehearse it, not in the ears of Israel, not in the ears of the leaders of Israel, but rehearse it in the ears of Joshua.

Why? Well, I suggest to you, he's saying to him, Get this deep into the mind of this young man, how I delivered against tremendous odds. You had no armies, you were outnumbered, and yet I made a pledge to you.

Now, I'm not bothered right here about Israel, he says. Get it into the mind of this young man, he's going to be a great leader some years ahead. And get him firmly established here in the word of God.

Joshua Learns by Living with Moses

Now, as far as I know, and you can't dispute this, you wouldn't want to maybe, but as far as I know, this young man Joshua was born in captivity. I've often wondered, I've often thought, I'd like to have slipped up to a campfire when Moses was there with his father-in-law, at night when they gathered the sheep in, and he began to say to him, You know, I've just been remembering, I've just been thinking, I noticed where the moon is, and I noticed the season of the year.

I just remembered that 21 years ago today, I was in the greatest chariot race that we ever raced against the foreigners. I remember winning the race, I remember the reward I got. Oh, and I remember the banquet that night after we finished.

Man, we just had everything. Don't you think he recounted a lot of the amazing events? Do you think he said, I can remember getting a straight A in every subject I had, every language I learned? After all, I was, I've kept this away from you for the 20 years, but, you know, I was the most brilliant student that we ever had in Egypt.

They'd already started carving images of me. They were going to put them down the Nile with Rameses I and Rameses II. I'm maybe the greatest intellect the world has ever had. I can imagine recounting some of those things, and I can imagine the young fellow that sat there, or as he must have said some of those things, I'm sure, to Joshua.

Joshua must have thought, you know, there must be something in it. Because the nearer I get to this fellow, I know he rings true. It must be worthwhile making all that sacrifice. This poor man, dusty and weary.

The things he puts up with. And he could be sitting on a throne while people wash his feet and serve him the best meals and heavens. Boy, he's put up with some of the rough stuff we've had and most days you can clean your teeth by rubbing your tongue over them with all the grit that's around.

Tramping after a million people isn't fun. And he could be riding on the back of a horse. He could be riding in a chariot. I notice he does have gold clasps on his sandals, but they're pretty rough. You wouldn't get much for them now.

But he must have had some glory previously and his garment that he wraps around him is pretty moth-eaten, but they're evidences of his former glory. You say, well, that's all your imagination. Well, I didn't claim it was inspiration.

I'm just suggesting that it could have happened because they were human beings. And they sat for hours, they sat for days, they sat for months, they sat for years. Forty years is an awful long time. And God gets hold of this young man and he says, Moses, listen.

I know he went through it all yesterday, but you know what? It's an old saying, but it's true. You get like the people you live with. So parents, watch out. Because if you get a bunch of little somethings later on, well, just watch that it wasn't coming out of you, huh?

If children live with violence, we're told they become violent. If they live amongst ambition, they become ambitious. If they live with music, you can affect the life of your children. I'm always trying to tell you that.

You let your children have the jungle stuff they put on from the radio stations and you see them like this. You go in a restaurant one day and a youngster jumps down and goes, the bathroom, and you say, don't do that, don't do that.

It's silly. You let him do it all the way at home, so why worry about it? You fed him jungle music, so let him act as though he's swinging from tree to tree. But if you play them the classics, they learn to love classical music.

If you speak loftily, they'll speak loftily. If you speak about holy things, they'll desire holy things. And God says, don't worry, because you see, it was already beginning to rub off onto this man Joshua.

I can prove it later. He says, you know, this man Moses is a marvelous man. I'll tell you why he's marvelous. He's got self-control. He's got everything under control. And the book of Proverbs that we're going to learn bit by bit, says what?

Greater is he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a city. Now if you take a city, you blast it to bits, they'll give you a pension from the army, they'll give you a medal as big as a frying pan, and you can strut with all you've got.

But if you rule your own city, somebody will say, you know what? He's not only meek, he's weak. Now meekness and weakness are not the same thing because Moses could get angry. Jesus says, I am meek and lowly of heart.

Moses was meek and lowly of heart. But Jesus got angry, Moses got angry. The only man who can celebrate pure anger is the man who's meek. Because he's purified of all self-interest. He wants nothing for himself, only for God.

And if he gets angry, it's a righteous anger. It's not a self-pity. It's not that somebody's trouble on his toes or hurt his feelings or he's beginning to suffer from something worse than cancer, which of course is self-pity.

Joshua’s Name and Calling

Then look, will you, at Numbers 13 and verse 6. Now, when you're a bit weary sometimes, read through this chapter. It's very refreshing. From verse 4. These were the names of the tribe. Reuben, Shammuah, the son of Zechar, the tribe of Sinion, Shaphat, and Hori of Judah, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and the tribe...

Oh, that is refreshing. It's a mouthful of sand. But come down to verse 16, and there's something very interesting. These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses caught...

Now look, before you read the rest of the verse, do you know the name of Joshua before he was Joshua? Or did you know he had another name? Hmm? Okay. Read the verse. Good lady at the back. Thank you, dear sister.

You've raised the age. She didn't know. You're not the only ignorant one around here. But anyhow, verse 16 says, these are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land, and Moses called Oshir, the son of Non, what did he call him?

Jehoshua. Joshua. Oshir by itself means salvation. You see, God changes the names of all the people he's going to use. You say, well, he didn't change the name of Moses. Hey, you've forgotten. He certainly did.

He wasn't Moses when he went there into the little casket, pardon me, basket. It sounds like casket, but it's basket. Basket he put, they put in the river. But she pulled him out and she called him Moses, withdrawn from...

His name was changed because his ministry was changed. Oshir means what? Oshir means salvation, deliverer. Well, then you put Jeho in front of it. Jehosh. Do you know what that means? The one by whom he will save.

Joshua cannot do it. But if you link Joshua to God, they can do it together. You see? So he has changed his name. I just think of a hymn, I've got an awful clicker in my mind, a law of association. And there's a hymn that says, Thy nature gracious, Lord, impart, come quickly from above.

Write thy new name upon my heart. You see, when God takes possession of somebody, he changes their name. Saul, who is called Paul. Uh-huh. Barnabas became the son of consolation. All right. He changed the name of Moses.

He changed the name of Jacob, didn't he? Didn't he change the name of a man who wrestled all night on a hilltop there? He changed his name because he changed his nature. Okay. Let's go a bit further here.

Joshua’s Faithfulness in Moses’s Presence

Exodus 24. Let's read verse 13. Moses rose up and his minister Joshua, and Moses went up into the mount of God. And he said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us until we... Notice that. Who's gone up with him?

Joshua. His minister. His servant. His assistant. The man that's having this very slow, but very wonderful, wonderful influence of the greatest man that had ever lived up to that time, I think. You see, there's something brushing off or rubbing off onto him all the time he's living in the presence of this amazing man.

He said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you, and behold Aaron and Hur are with you. With you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. Now Aaron and Hur stayed down the hillside.

The seventy were further down, and the other people were further down still. And up in the mountain goes Moses for this fantastic revelation, and with him is Joshua. Now look, let's finish this because it's so thrilling.

And Moses went up into the cloud, and the cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord abode upon the mount, Sinai. And the cloud covered it six days, and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud, and the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the mount. And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. Now will you notice what that chapter is? What is it? Twenty-four. All right, go right down now to twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two.

Mm-hmm. And what does it say in verse thirty-two and verse seventeen? And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. Oh. What had happened?

Well, the rest of the people got weary and they said, The servant of God, Moses, has obviously died. He's been away too long. And so, we better do something ourselves. Let's get organized. And they came to Aaron, the man anointed of God, and you remember that they began to take off their earrings and their jewelry, and he made a calf, and he said it leapt out somehow out of the fire, a golden image.

And they danced around it. Not only danced, they became obscene. They tore off their clothes. They got excited. Now Moses has been wrapped up there in the glory with God. He fasted forty days. Well, don't you think Joshua fasted forty days?

He was waiting down the hill. He didn't get weary. In other words, do you see what God's doing? He's giving him a long, long lesson in patience that he can sit there between a warring people down here and the man to whom God is giving the revelation and he isn't drawn by either.

This is his place and he's satisfied to sit still and see the salvation of God. He's prepared to be still and know that God is God. God placed me here. I'm staying here. I'm not saying he wasn't tempted to run up the hill, but I think in more sense he obviously had.

He just stayed on the mountain and he waited and he fasted. Isn't there a scripture that says in patience possess ye your souls? Isn't the waiting period the hardest things to do? The thing to do? I read a while ago a very interesting story of a young man that felt he was called to a mission field.

Patience, Humility, and a Teachable Spirit

He applied to a mission board and he got a favorable answer. I'm not sure. I think it was New York City. He was told to come to the office of the director of the mission at five o 'clock in the morning and answer certain questions.

Five o 'clock in the morning? Boy, that's inconvenient. Five in the afternoon? Oh, it'll be easy, but five in the morning? I'm going to have to be out of bed about two o 'clock to get there. He got there at five o 'clock.

There's a doorbell that was with a light and he rang it and the janitor came and said, what do you want at this hour? Oh, oh yes. Yes, I remember. Mr. So-and-so, the director said you were coming at five o 'clock.

Please come this way. He took him upstairs and he said, just wait here. The director's coming and he waited till nine o 'clock. The director came in very bright and said, good morning, brother. And he said, good morning, sir.

Just give me two minutes. I just washed my hands. I just came off the train there, a bit grimy. And he said to his secretary, bring the young man in. And so he sat the young man down and he said, your name is, what is it now?

John Brown. Oh, yes. How old are you? Twenty-two. Very good. Would you answer some questions? He said, yes. He said, what are the first three letters in the alphabet? Oh, this guy is cookie. Got me here four hours before I had to come and now ask me, me with my degrees?

But he didn't say a thing except A, B, C. Very good. What's twice two? Four. What's twice four? Eight. What's twice eight? Sixteen. Very good. Man, you've come through 100 so far. Now, what is the capital of New York State?

Albany. Right. And he asked him about a dozen, just about first grade questions. And he said, you'll receive a letter from the examining board later in the week. They were having a meeting that morning and the rest of the crowd came along, the big shots, and they sat around.

Oh, did you interview that boy, John Brown, this morning? Yes. He's the stuff we want. He is? Yeah. How do you know? Well, I tried to get him a bit rattled by... I got him here at five o 'clock this morning and I discovered he had to be up at two to get here.

But he never said a word. Never said... It's not convenient, you know. After all, it is my vacation time. And then I asked him, what were the first three letters of the alphabet? And he smiled and said ABC.

And I said to him, what's twice two? And he said four. And I went on and I asked him. I asked him about ten questions any ten-year-old could answer. He's got the goods we want. He's got patience. He waited four hours.

He's got humility. He never rebelled against it. And he went right down the list and he said these are the kind of men we want. He's got a childlike spirit. He's got a teachable spirit. He's got a spirit where you can't upset him and offend him, you see.

There's a nice psalm, a hundred and... what's the longest psalm? 119 verse 156 is it? Where it says, Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them. Is that where you live? Hmm?

One lady shakes her head. I won't say which way. But anyhow, nothing shall offend her. You never get offended? Hmm? See the scripture talks about peace and great peace. It talks about love and perfect love.

It talks about life and fullness of life. And really what this is all about actually in this wonderful book which we'll explore later is telling us about this promised land which is full of hostility and full of opposition.

Conquering the Inner Enemies of the Heart

There used to be an old man in Scotland. Um... Andrew Lancelot was going to say. No, that's not right. Lancelot Andrews. He kept a personal diary of his spiritual life. Every day he put down his reactions.

Whether he was disturbed or whether he was quiet or if there was anything rebellious in him or if he found a long stretch of patience and forgiveness and so forth. And when he died they found this diary.

It was written in the old days you know before with these funny pens. They used to write with ink. And it wasn't too good that ink. And he wrote beautifully but his tears were always smearing his writing.

But one day somebody found a page and it was smeared but they worked on it and found that he put something like this Lord cleanse my heart from the Amalekite of pride and the Jebusite of anger and the Perisite of covetousness and the Hittite of envy and he called all those 31 kings by a name.

Israel’s Complaining and God’s Provision

And he said little by little I'm going to get God to drive every one of these out so that my heart is a promised land for God. Isn't that nice? That's why God is preparing this amazing man. Look at Numbers chapter 11.

Verse 1. When the people complained it displeased the Lord and the Lord heard it and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Verse 4. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell lusting and the children of Israel also wept again and said who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt freely and the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlics and now our souls are dried away and there's nothing at all except this manner.

Hmm? Verse 11. Moses said to the Lord wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant and wherewith have I not found favour in thy sight that thou layest the burden of all these people upon me? Verse 13. When should I have flesh to give to all these people for they weep to me saying give us flesh that we may eat?

Verse 15. And if thou deal'st with me kill me I pray thee out of hand if I have found favour in thy sight and let me not see their wretchedness. Hmm? Now does God answer prayer? Yeah, He answers some things we don't want Him to answer too.

Look at this 18th verse. Say thou unto the people sanctify yourselves against tomorrow and ye shall eat flesh for you have wept in the ears of the Lord saying who shall give us flesh to eat? For it is well with us in Egypt therefore the Lord will give you flesh and ye shall eat.

Ye shall not eat it one day or two days or five days or ten days or twenty days but for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. Now isn't that pretty? Have you heard people say you want some of that?