Complains,

Quails And Seventy Elders

By

Holy Moses

The People Complain

Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.

Cravings Of The Mixed Multitudes

Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!"

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil. And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased. So Moses said to the Lord:

"Why have You afflicted Your servant?

And why have I not found favour in Your sight,

that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?

Did I conceive all these people?

Did I beget them, that You should say to me,

‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,'

to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Where am I to get meat to give to all these people?

For they weep all over me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

I am not able to bear all these people alone,

because the burden is too heavy for me.

If You treat me like this,

please kill me here and now —

if I have found favour in Your sight —

and do not let me see my wretchedness!"

The Seventy Elders

So the Lord said to Moses: "Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the Tabernacle Of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. Then, I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?"'"

And Moses said, “The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.' Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?"

And the Lord said to Moses, “Has the Lord's arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not."

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the Tabernacle. Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again.

But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the Tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, "Moses my Lord, forbid them!"

Then Moses said to him, "Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!" And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

The Lord Sends Quail

Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day's journey on this side and about a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague. So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.

And from Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved to Hazeroth, and camped at Hazeroth.

The Spiritual Meaning Of The Quails

Holy Moses: When the quails came down, in plenty, the Israelites supposed to know that is was the Holy Spirit that came down. The Israelites saw the quails like an ordinary meat. But the quails were the powers of the Holy Spirit, which God wanted to put inside their bodies, and which shall remain steadfast in them.

One Person Was Not Enough

Holy Moses: The Israelites were eating the quails, as if they were eating ordinary meat. Humanity do not know when they fall away, deviate, from what God said. Once they see something, they start following, dealing with, that thing in the way they see it, without knowing the spiritual importance and the necessary processes and procedures. The Israelites were waiting for myself, Holy Moses, to come and explain to them all things. They did not know that myself was not able, not enough, to explain all things to them.

That was why God spread, shared out, His Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit to come in, far more than was available before. This was because myself would stand on one side, doing work, while some other sets of people stand elsewhere doing what pleased them. As myself was standing and explaining what God said, at one place, other people were at my back, doing some other things that pleased them.

That was why God wanted those people who can teach, and the people who shall gather and organize others, to be many, so that it would be easy and possible to gather and organize all the people at the same time, for the people to understand what is being done. In such a way that while some people were doing something, other people shall not be doing some other things that are not relevant.

Why God Struck Many Dead

Holy Moses: Why did God struck them to death (tigbue ha)?

In your own understanding, you will say that those people did not know that the quails were Holy Spirit. That was why they ate it like an ordinary meat.

In whatever condition you are, there are certain things you should know without being taught, without any person teaching you. And there are other things that should be taught to you. Therefore, do not relax, do not wait, to be taught all things.

God was teaching me many things, which myself was teaching the Israelites. When the Israelites saw the quails, they supposed to know.