Today we reviewed the issues of the Israelites' murmuring - it's not a sin to be thirsty, but it is to murmur against and criticize our leaders. We chronicled the departure from Egypt (the world) through the red sea (baptism) following the cloud and pillar of fire (Holy Ghost), journey through the wilderness (journey through life to God), Mt. Sinai (the temple) and finally to the promised land (eternal life/celestial kingdom).
We looked at Chapter 17 and read the story in Deuteronomy 25 which tells us why the Israelites entered into battle with the Amalakites. One of our students volunteered to be Moses and lifted her arms for us for quite a while - finally we had two other volunteers come up and help hold up their hands. Interestingly, they too got tired of holding up the hands. We discussed holding up and supporting our leaders as they serve. We ended the day in Chapter 18 discussing Jethro and his advice to Moses as he told him that what he was doing was not good - in carrying the whole load by himself. Really - why should he have to hear with and deal with petty complaints like - "his camel licked my dog?" We recognized that the church is set up and has a specific order - a line of direction so that our prophet and our leaders can really lead us instead of worrying about dog licking camels... :)
Tomorrow we will cover chapter 19.
The students have all been assigned an assignment to teach one of the ten commandments. On Monday each will take approx 3-4 minutes to teach us about their assigned commandment. We will not hold class on Tuesday November 20th.
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