The story in Numbers 13-14 is a metaphor for Sabbath Rest. It is the antithesis for the creation story as creation spins out of control. Numbers 14:4 tells us, “So they said to one another, ‘Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.’” In Numbers 14:10 we read, “But all the congregation said to stone them with stones.” In Numbers 14:10-12 we are told, “Then the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel. The Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.” Numbers 14:39-45 tells us, “When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly. In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, ‘Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.’ But Moses said, ‘Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed? Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the Lord. And the lord will not be with you.’ But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses left the camp. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.“ Consider that the first sin was a sin of doubt and despair and at the end their sin is of presumption and pride. Reflect on Peter and his sin of presumption of pride and doubt. “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me?” Reflect that the life of faith is looking outward for life and sustenance. All sin is rooted in unbelief. We are to believe in the Lord Jesus for everything. We are called to a lifestyle of rest. Consider a short introduction of Matthew Thiessen’s essay, Hebrews and the End of the Exodus.