Numbers 11 & 14 Jews Cleansed By Fire and Blood Before Entering Promised Land

The Bible book of Numbers in the old testament is great reading. Historical incidents of the Jews after their exodus from Egypt and before they moved into the promised land is very informative and worth reading especially now.

For many people the history of the chosen people and how they were cleansed by fire literally before they were ready to enter the promised land is somewhat vague. They did not simply dance across the divided waters, catch some rays in the desert before driftin on over to find fully stocked refrigerators and condos at Haifa.

I will quote chapters 11  and 14 from the Kings James version below. In chapter 14 one finds that the generation that could have entered into the promised land were instead killed off nearly entirely for failing to obey the Lord.

Moses had been told to send scouts to the promised land and did so taking 40 days. When they returned the Jews of the exodus became fearful and wanted to return to Egypt.  Then they changed their minds and decided to just go on, yet the Lord was displeased with them. He said that they would die.

They choose to go on to the promised land and the Lord said not to, for the Amalekites and Cannanites would slay them, and of course the Jews ignored that instruction-went on to meet the Amalexites and Cannanites and were slain-except for the children and select others that were made to wander in the desert another 40 years.

The Jews that actually did make it to the promised land were not cold blooded-their parents generation had been slain by the Amalekites and Cannanites, while they were themselves more recondite in following the Lord's leadership and instructions. God has a better plan for humanity, and sent His son Jesus Christ to rescue those that would set their worldly biological condition toward whoring and etc. and become cleansed through the grace of God to return to His will.

Numbers 11 through 14 are marvelous readings for insight into the perfect justice of the Lord.

King James Version (KJV)

Numbers... 

"11 And 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.

² And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

³ And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

⁴ And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

⁵ We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

⁶ But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

⁷ And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

⁸ And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

⁹ And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

¹⁰ Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

¹¹ And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

¹² Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

¹³ Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

¹⁶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

¹⁸ And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

²⁰ But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

²¹ And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

²² Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

²³ And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

²⁴ And Moses went out, and told the people the words of theLord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

²⁵ And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

²⁶ But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.

²⁷ And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

²⁹ And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord'S people were prophets, and that theLord would put his spirit upon them!

³⁰ And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

³¹ And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

³² And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

³⁴ And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

³⁵ And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth."

King James Version (KJV)

Numbers 14 "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

² And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

³ And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

⁴ And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

⁵ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

⁷ And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

⁸ If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

⁹ Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.

¹⁰ But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

¹¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

¹³ And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

¹⁴ And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thouLord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

¹⁷ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

¹⁸ The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

²⁰ And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

²¹ But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

²² Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

²³ Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

²⁵ (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

²⁶ And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

²⁸ Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

²⁹ Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

³⁰ Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

³¹ But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

³² But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

³³ And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

³⁵ I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

³⁶ And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

³⁷ Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

³⁹ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.

⁴¹ And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.

⁴² Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

⁴⁴ But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah"

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Killed By Mob- A Comment

The U.S. embassy in Cairo apologized 9-11 to the Moslem world in general for free speech apparently referring to You Tube videos and so forth. That apology was made before the Cairo mob and that in Benghazi attacked the U.S. embassies.

At the funeral and memorial service for the late Ambassador one hopes that an American instrument-the banjo-is played instead of the Unamerican, globalist bagpipes effecting such  alien noise.

The Moslem world sinks in a gravitational-like field toward Sharia and represses free speech somewhat inevitably and it's is unreasonable for the administration to expect that free speech would or should stop in western civilization so that no Moslem would look out their window and see Lady Godiva riding her trusty steed.

It is a paradox that the Harvard-Corporatist-Administration axis of hate speech ideology that represses particular language use and bans users from select web pages for using select non-partisan language takes the anti-free speech side when their own ox's are disrespected from their partisan point of view. It is difficult to rate the lack of foresight about leaving an ambassador so vulnerable to terrorism and killing when it is well known that Al Qa'eda and radical terrorists are swimming in that Libyan social ocean of revolutionary instability as well as in Cairo.

Probably the administration should have had better mid-east logic, policy and embassy security.

The restive Moslem world should not be given a message that free speech is anything less than necessary for democracy to exist. What would Jesus do as a question takes the reality out of context in the course of history. Eschatological issues and determinism are actual factors not subject to such criteria I think.

We would not expect that a new generation of neutron bombs for new Crusader series missiles would be a necessary response to intimidation of video bloggers of course. The point might be made though that toleration for terrorism from Moslem radicals upon Americans can have its limits though.

Terry Jones was not the producer of the video named 'The Innocence of Islam' that is alleged to be the motivator for the mob violence. Free speech especially about historical figures cannot reasonably be limited at all-that's how historical accuracy is developed and they way quality video production occurs.

In reading about the investigation leading to the arrest of KSM the Daniel Pearl video was mentioned. Its still on the Internet too-KSM cuts off his head and holds it up for the camera. The Democrat party seems to be unable to universally support free speech while condemning evil actions and explaining that difference to the Moslem world or developing tolerance for free expression in Molsem nations especially Pakistan.

Iraq Leadership Crisis-V.P. Sentenced to Death

Iraq's Vice President, a Sunni, was sentenced to death for allegedly supporting death hit squads in the nation. The Vice President has adamantly declared his innocence of the charges and is now in Turkey speaking out against the trumped up putch to purge Sunni participation in the government.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2012/0910/Rejecting-death-sentence-Iraqi-VP-Hashemi-calls-for-Iraqis-to-resist

President Maliki, a Shi'a has now the prospect of developing a Shi'a government with declining formal Sunni participation and with terrorism increasing,  the prospects of renewed violence comprising sectarian civil strife. 

With a U.S. sanctions intafada directed against two other basic Shia or Alawi derivative nations of Iran and Syria the consolidation of Shia rule in Iraq before an inevitable Sunni takeover following a Sunni Muslim Brotherhood conquest of Syria seems a logical if not best direction for Shia partisans in the middle east. It is doubtful that the Obama administration or Secretary Clinton have a clear plan for bringing the situation in Syria or Iraq to a peaceful resolution.

The Al Qaeda resistance in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan with financial support from Saudi Sunni Salafi fundamentalist oil rich Sunnis seems to be increasing in the region. U.S. suspension of training of Afghan tribal policemen recently  because so many of them make suicide attacks on N.A.T.O. soldiers seems an indicator that the will to power of the Sunni-Taliban-Pakistan I.S.I. axis of insurgency makes the prospect that a diminished U.S. presence will bring an increase in Sunni attacks and purges on our original Shi'a allies in Afghanistan-the Northern Alliance.

The expensive and apparently unintelligent U.S. actions could stand substantial improvement and cost efficiency increase.

Obama to Lift Chicago School Teachers to Become Millionaires?

With the Chicago public school teachers on strike seeking to get a base pay of $91,000 a year President Obama's plan to redistribute middle class tax dollars to hire more school teachers seems to be gaining local traction. The teachers realized that they might also become millionaires before retirement if they could save about half of their salary if it approaches one hundred thou annually.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/education/teacher-strike-begins-in-chicago-amid-signs-that-deal-isnt-close.html?pagewanted=all

It is possible I suppose for a school teacher to live on canned beenie weenies and raman noodles with crackers and perhaps buy some kind of cheap van and live in that near a McDonalds for the toilet and save even more for a few years to walk away with enough to buy a condo in Santo Domingo and enjoy the beach. I should write something here about raman noodles.

I have made a discovery that could alter the fundamental way one looks at raman noodles of the common sort with a beef flavor packet. Just cook the noodles in plain water, throw out the water (or save it if in a desert in a used pop bottle) and then slowly add the flavor packet tossing the noodles to mix thoroughly. Its really much better than with the beef forming a kind of broth. It reminds me of chinese fired rice actually and one doesn't get the scoots if on that poor diet.

That reminds me of one other idea about this idea derived from experience buying oriental raman noodles where one throws out the water and adds three different flavor packets (and they are cheaper too); one could produce a pork fried rice flavor packet to add to boiled minute rice and have instant Chinese pork fried rice to which one might add a diced fried egg and sliced chives if really in the money.

Oh yes, the Chicago school teachers strike. The President may help the teachers realize their greatest aspirations of becoming millionaires. If teachers of 4th graders can't become millionaires what is the nation becoming- anti-intellectual?

It may be possible to use ground piping and insulation to lower the temperatures in badly designed school buildings instead of just adding expensive air-conditioning. I suppose they should contact Amory Lovins or someone like that for leads. The schools must have some plain cooling dirt someplace below the funkie structures.

In the meantime Chicago students might evolve a contest to invent the cheapest and most effective way to deliver Barnes and Noble nooks to students and independent study classes that could be done outside schools with perhaps in-class testing. Perhaps independent study class room nooks designed for quiet safe independent study could be designed without teachers present to better automate the student learning support agenda. One would think that with a 30% savings in cutting out superfluous and dubious extra Chicago school teachers and moving toward a better safer 50% mix of independent study through the student nook program the students might be better able to survive the uncertainties of wildcat union strikes demanding tens of thousands of dollars more now and then to appear.

President Clinton Sold Out the Middle Class & Poor- President Obama Follows

When President Clinton signed off on letting U.S. home mortgages be  traded and sold in tranched derivatives he sold out the middle class. Home mortgages and home investments were the fundamental economic security of the middle class and poor in the U.S.A. I suppose some of the wealthy of London were unhappy with having middle class nuggets they couldn't get their hands on so President Clinton willingly gave them what they wanted.

The poor and middle class before President Clinton and his advisers that served President Obama too were free to not invest in the stock market with all its flim flam in quantitative trading. They were free to have somewhat secure investment in their home without worrying about tranched derivatives undermining the housing market. Those days were gone with the Clinton administration though, and now the middle class and poor have no safe investment havens to keep their money in. Instead President Obama has forced them all to be part of an Obamacare corporate health insurance plan so the rich can pluck their pay in every way.

President Clinton also sent U.S. factories south to Mexico signing off on N.A.F.T.A. and because the Clinton-Obama Democrat party won't enforce zero tolerance for illegal immigration from Mexico policy they supported cheap Mexican labor moving north to take over the U.S. low-end labor market. That's a reason why the Mexican economy grows 4% a year and people are investing their with the Mexican economy reaching the top 20 in the world while the U.S. economy has 15% under and unemployed.

The Clinton-Obama team and their sychophants say they just need another four years to add a trillion dollars a year of debt to the people of the United States. Its another bad idea by bad political leaders, from a middle class and poor point of view.

M/V Susitna Up For Sale- A Steal at $80 million?

A county in Alaska (known here as a burrough) named the Mat-Su had a ferryboat built that is ice-breaking capable a little and a landing craft named the Susitna for 80 million dollars. It is likely that it's going to be for sale since the Mat-Su people haven't a way to use it to bring people to their side of Cook Inlet from Anchorage.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?177898-Successful-launch-of-Susitna-Ferry&s=31bf4db2df178390fa3bcc8fe690473d

The boat cost 80 million dollars and was completed in 2010. The insurance on the baot cost something like 3/4 million annually, so the Wasilla Mat-Su people are planning to try to get rid of one of the 'ten most significant boats launched in 2010'. Maybe it could become a toy for the Coast Guard at Nome or be used to cross the Bering Strait seasonally.

This topic incidentally reminds me of the lack of ice breakers that the Coast Guard has-just one ancient and venerable ship. With declining sea ice maybe a new kind of ice breaking tool that could go in front of an ice capable ship to clear the way could be built-something like a barge with sonic, heat and vibrating technology that could be pushed by a tug/push boat or some more conventional vessel.

Instead of making a complete ship it might be cheaper to develop a heavy-ice breaking technology tool to lead the way for boat-perhaps remotely piloted by the following ship crew.

http://www.frontiersman.com/news/m-v-susitna-up-for-sale/article_6d47eefa-f655-11e1-8444-001a4bcf887a.html

The U.S. Navy helped design and pay for the boat as a prototype for the E-Craft, a new kind of landing vessel. It was built in Ketchikan Alaska, near where the famous 'bridge to nowhere' was to be constructed.

image credit- U.S. Navy

Economists & Government Looking Again at Thorium Power

With perennial U.S. energy consumption paradigm malfeasance its necessary to dump energy to compensate for its inefficient use. Americans use about a 100 times more energy per day than a second world citizen, and that' helpful when reliant upon machines for transportation, washing dishes and staying warm. Thorium power plants may be a way to solve the energy crisis without adding to global carbon emissions.

Thorium is less volatile than uranium and in a Molten Salt Reactor less dangerous evidently than the Chernyobyl land mines. There are no Thorium Nuclear Power Plants today and just one MSR plant has been constructed while the U.S. Government is slack on developing Thorium Power Research it seems.

Thorium has less potential for weapons development than uranium power as well as having less long term radiation storage problems, or so the story goes. It could just be more propriatary support that is half-baked of course, yet it is worth looking in to. When global warming gets really bad and the air conditioners never switch off in Toledo they may want a Tahorium Power PLant to cool things down.

Energy Credit-U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Research Advisory Staff