21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. For when they spied out the land was the season of the first ripe grapes (Num 13:20). It was this fruit they returned with that bore witness that the testimony of the Lord was true-this is a land flowing with milk and honey. As those who sojourn in the here, longing for the there, we are continually faced with the same choice. The mixed multitude who traveled with Israel but were never of Israel, caused most of the trouble along the way to the promised land. They were the authors of most of the apostasies and rebellions that delayed the entrance of Israel into the promised land forty years. Israel, the land of God's Word, both the written Word of God, and the living Word of God, God did not use the symbols of milk and honey to show us that Israel had an Him, this is the true 'promised land' that born again believers will inherit. Unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. Bishop Sam Jacobs was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Lafayette in 1964 where he served as pastor, chaplain, and associate pastor of several parishes there The book of Acts testifies that the covenant of care was close to the heart of the church from its inception. All who believed were not only together but had all things in common. They sold their possessions and distributed the proceeds to all according to need (chap. 2). What is the story of Joshua and Caleb in the Bible? He will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid Because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit, An, Witness Lee Some would answer that to enjoy Christ we need to pray-read the Word and exercise the spirit. This is true, but to really enjoy Christ in a rich way, we must be persons who are This is the good land, the rich land, flowing with milk and honey with all the riches of God records one such example of their sins in Numbers 11, where the "mixed multitude who were among [the children of Israel] yielded to intense craving" (verse 4). God sent quail aplenty and "struck the people with a very great plague" (verse 33). The mixed multitude is We cannot understand what the Word of God is saying in the here and now unless we know the historical context and forms of literature through which the human authors expressed that Word in the first place. Today, as never before, the literal meaning of the text is wide open before us. If in this day a soul shall act according to the precepts and the counsels of God, he will serve as a divine physician to mankind, and like the trump of Isr