I think the fact that the people were always complaining asking for food and wishing to go back to egypt led to their condemption. I believe that this could represent the fact that people couldn’t simply trust in God and waited patiently to get to the promised land. They were always unthankful and angry at Moses and God for embarking on this journey. In some way, I see that as the modern call for the abandonment of your responsibilty to strive for a better life instead of settling for the bare safe minimum. Yet, a huge theme in the bible is the rejection of envy which is a key element to this desire for a better life since it is all relative. I think Moses was condemned because he allocated the mercy of God: food and water offered in the wilderness, for his own greatness. He didn’t recognize for a bit that God was the ultimate source of all of the good which lead him to be confused about the power that is given to him.
I think that the death of Moses and the rise of the Joshua represent the new era of God’s people. It’s like everyone has a role in this adventure and when you have accomplished that goal, a new era begins. In Moses’s cse I think that he fullfilled h his goals by getting the Israelites into the promised land. Now, this is a new chaper and thus new characters are needed. His death is a representation of success to me.
The last paragraph is hinting that there are going ot be a lot of faults in the furure. It is telling us that Moses is the best out of all of them and now he is dead so even if we get other prophets, it won’t lead to a better relationship with God until; Jesus which is the last peophet, .
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