Pat Boone

You know the story, don’t you? How Moses, as prepared and directed by God, led the children of Israel out of 400 years’ captivity in Egypt? How they passed through the Red Sea miraculously, traveled through the desert wilderness up to the foot of Mount Sinai, where they encamped to get God’s permanent marching orders? Yes, and after receiving the Ten Commandments and all the "fine print" instructions, this divinely created nation of almost 3 million men, women and children arrived at the border of the Promised Land, expecting – and expected – to march in and take possession?

If you do, then you also remember what happened next.

God instructed Moses to pick 12 men, "a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them," to go into the land and inspect what was there, and come back with an accurate "scouting report" to guide the people of Israel as they would move in to occupy the territory they had been promised…

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