Who Were The Mixed Multitude?

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They have this group traveling along with them known as the mixed multitude.

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So the mixed multitude we see is a bad influence on the people. So it leads them to grumble and complain against God to say, you know, why did we ever even leave

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Egypt? Look at Numbers 11 verses 1 through 6 again, it says,

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Because now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord, for the Lord heard it and his anger was aroused.

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So the fire of the Lord burned among them. Some scholars think that these are lightning strikes.

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I don't know if that's the case or not, whatever it says, some were consumed on the outskirts of the camp.

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Verse two, then the people cried out to Moses. And when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched.

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So you see that intercession, once again, Moses acting as what a type of type of Christ.

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Verse three. So he called the name of the place Tabara because the fire of the

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Lord had burned among them and Tabara means burning. Verse four.

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Now the mixed multitude who are among them yielded to intense craving. So the children of Israel also wept again and said, who will give us meat to eat?

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We remember the fish, which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks and the onions and the garlic.

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But now our whole being is dried up and there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes.

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Okay. So first of all, who is the mixed multitude? They seem to be the instigators here of this whole event.

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So who is the mixed multitude? Who knows? Right. During the

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Exodus, when they exited the land of Egypt, there were some, well, a mixed multitude that went along with them.

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So they would have been Egyptians and maybe some other nationalities were not really sure.

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But clearly they seem to be the ones causing the discontentment.

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So they start grumbling and you know how it is. All it really takes is for a few people to start grumbling and complaining and then that kind of spreads.

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It takes one person to be disgruntled and, Hey, this isn't right. This isn't fair.

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And I'm upset. You're upset about this too. Right. And it just kind of spreads, spreads from there.

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So this bad attitude, it's kind of like a virus and it just goes, goes everywhere.

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God hears it. God is angry. And I don't think this is just a little bit of complaining like, gee,

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I wish we had something else to eat once in a while. I don't think it was like that at all. This seems to be much worse than that.

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And the lesson for us, I think, is that we need to be careful about this.

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Not only complaining, which we're all prone to do at times, I think we have our own mixed multitude to deal with in a sense.

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In Exodus and Numbers, the mixed multitude were non -Israelites that were among them.

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But really we're surrounded by people that are non -Christians pretty much every day of our life.

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And they can be, if we're not careful, they can be a bad influence on, on us.