1 Corinthians 10:1-5

The terrible failure of the Israelites 1 Corinthians 10:1-5: God painted a sad portrait of the failures of Israel in the words, "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness." (1 Corinthians 10:5) In I Corinthians chapter 9 Paul said he did not want to be disqualified. However, he said that most of the people that made up Israel in the wilderness were disqualified. This was a terrible tragedy. They (1) were all under the cloud (2) all passed through the sea, (3) all were baptized unto Moses, (4) all ate the same spiritual food, and (5) all drank the same spiritual drink. "But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert."

The Bible leads us to think that there may have been as many as two million or more people that went out of Egypt. There were "six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men" that were from twenty years old and upward. Only two of that number, Joshua and Caleb, entered the land of Canaan. All the rest died and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. The terrible failure of the Israelites should cause us to take note of our lives.