Some Day 1 pictures

This image is a metal work statue at the top of Mount Nebo depicting the snake lifted up on a pole...

'They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food! "Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people. The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived."

This story is just one chapter after Moses strikes the rock and God brings forth water. How quickly does unthankfulness grow in our hearts....maybe this is why God is constantly telling the people to remember. This is also of course a sign point to the coming Messiah that would be hung on a pole for our eternal salvation.

This is a shot from inside the 12 springs of Moses

Inside the 12 springs of Moses looking up to Mount Nebo.

This is one of my favorite things I saw yesterday. These are sheep pens made out of bramble. When the Scripture refers to a "hedge of protection around us" this is what it means. It is a pen made out of bramble with only one door. The thistles make it impossible to get in any other way and the shepherd guards the door at night while the sheep are in it.

" Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land." Job 1:10

"What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?
"So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground. "I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up, I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it." Isaiah 5:4-6

So many word pictures in Scripture are lost on us, so to see the actual thing that is being referred to makes what God is saying so real and filling.