Exodus 3:19-20
But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
Imagine the people who the LORD led mercifully out of Egypt "testing and trying" the LORD all along the way after that. They looked helpless when they were slaves in Egypt. Here in the wilderness, after they had known that they were special in God's eyes, they began to "test and try" the LORD themselves. Like spoiled brats, they started asking for their own stubborn and rebellious ways. This is what the LORD got for performing so many miracles that He had never done before for anyone else. How stubborn, how rebellious, how wicked! Unbelief was there in their hearts all the while. Unbelief will eventually destroy you forever. Moses was equated to the leadership of Christ our Lord as a shepherd of God's people, leading them out of slavery from the Enemy. It seemed an impossible task for Moses to do that. He needed a mighty hand to assist Him with this immense task. The LORD intervened and they were delivered. It was just like the Lord Jesus Christ being raised from the dead.It seemed that impossible to lead God's people out of their slavery to the Enemy. Both Moses and the Lord Jesus Christ did it, in the end! But, just imagine that these same people whom Moses had led out safely to the wilderness kept longing to return to Egypt! They didn't mind the slavery and their eventual destruction in the hands of the Enemy, as long as they have their day to day pleasures, urges, desires and passions met. They insisted and fought with God's leader, Moses, that they wanted their way in this. They found God's ways burdensome. They preferred the slavery! How is it different today? So was Adam and Eve. So were the people when Saul became king. So were they before they went into seventy year captivity during Jeremiah's time. They always wanted and insisted their own rebellious ways. That's how Aaron and the people under his charge started turning to idolatry, then, witchcraft practices, then, sorcery, then, divination and so on. You tell me, who is arrogant? or rather who has been arrogant here? If Money becomes your God, even when the Lord Jesus Christ had warned you that you cannot serve two masters at the same time. who is arrogant then? Let God be the judge, just like He was in the wilderness. Do you think that they changed their ways after many, many years down the road? No they didn't! This is what it was said about them in the book of Nehemiah, written much later. You tell me now, who is similarly arrogant?
Nehemiah 9:16-18
"But they, our forefathers, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and did not obey your commands. They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them, even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, 'This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,' or when they committed awful blasphemies.
The Lord Jesus Christ repeated these, almost in similar words about them, thousands of years later. In fact, He prophesied about their eternal judgment. You tell me, who is similarly arrogant?
.Luke 10:13-15
"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths.
