Moses received instructions from the Lord. God’s Secret Words are hard to understand and the power that they convey is harder still to comprehend. But Moses learned the words. Ten words there were. Ten words of mighty surging power. Ten words and ten seals are there held all the world’s power of creation and destruction: all the plagues of death and all the power of life! Never since creation has any man borne such terrible power, as did Moses when he walked down with Two Tables of Testimony in his hands.
The ten words he made Ten Commandments; the way of life for all of Israel and for a multiplied impact on the entire world. Moses received many other words from the Lord and they were infinite in their variety and explicit in their instruction but of all the words were the great words that Moses inscribed upon the Tablets of Testimony.
Moses, with a great happiness in his heart, for he knew that the Ten Words would bring his people the keys to freedom, peace, power, justice, wealth, love, and happiness which they had sought. Here was a Lodestone that would attract all things. Here was a compass to point the way. Here was an unfailing chart to guide their destiny. Here were stones more precious than diamonds, emeralds or rubies.
We were told by Moses to cut from the body of Israel the guilty in heart and the unclean, which must be done that Israel, might be cleansed. Moses instructed them in making of the House of God which he called the Tabernacle of the Congregation. When finished, the Pillar of Cloud came down and held conversation with Moses. For the first time the Pillar of Cloud went inside the House of God. After a long time, Moses came out from the Tabernacle and the skin of his face shined with an unearthly and benign light that all recognized as a part of heaven that was IN him and they all bowed down and worshipped. It was not Moses they worshipped, but HIM who had manifested HIS love for Moses.
It came about that Miriam and Aaron, his siblings, became jealous of Moses’ influence with the people. They wanted some of his power to rule the people.
Moses knew the smallness of their hearts and he knew that power would make their heads swim, so he gave them none of it. Miriam and Aaron whispered gossip and complained in hushed voices to the people. They begin spreading rumors that Moses’ wife was not of Israel; that she was an Ethiopian. His siblings said of Moses that he gave the people Laws but that these Laws were not of the Lord but of Moses.
Moses’ wrath was great when he read the unbelief upon their faces and in their hearts, especially after the Lord had manifested HIMSELF to them in so many ways. Moses followed by his brother and sister, went into the Tent of Testimony where Moses raised his right hand and it was bathed in light. The Cloud which hovered near the altar, lifted like a veil before their eyes and then they saw that Miriam had been struck with leprosy.
Only then, did Miriam and Aaron come to believe, for after seven days outside the camp she came at the call of Moses and became clean and whole again.
Lord, heal our world. Please create a place of peace among men. May your Word God and the power of YOUR peace have a multiplied impact on the decision makers of our time. To bring this world in alignment with YOUR Righteous will. Enter us into a Holy realm of cooperation. That mankind will create a place for kind-man. AMEN
Numbers 12:10
New International Version
10 “When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,”
Numbers 12:10
King James Version
10 “And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.”
Numbers 12:10
Living Bible
10 “As the Cloud moved from above the Tabernacle, Miriam suddenly became white with leprosy. When Aaron saw what had happened,”