Question on verses

[jacquie4000]

Please forgive sometimes I keep reading something and it still alludes me, of course my ADD doesn't always help either.

One day all the Israelites started to complain because they were out of water. They went to Moses and said, "We wish that God had killed us when he killed our relatives! Why did you bring us into the forest to die with our cows? Why did you make us leave Egypt and come to this nasty place? There's nowhere to get seeds, no figs, no vines, and no pomegranates, and there isn't any water."

Moses and Aaron went to the altar and fell on their faces. God appeared and said to Moses, "Take your stick, get the people together, and talk to a rock. It will give you water so that the people and their animals can have a drink."

So Moses took his stick and did what God had told him to do. They got the people to stand around a rock and said, "Listen, rebels, do we have to get water out of this rock?" And when Moses lifted up his hand and hit the rock a couple of times with it, water poured out and the people and their animals hand plenty to drink.

Then God came to Aaron and Moses and said, "Because you didn't believe in me and made me look bad in front of the Israelites, I'm not going to let you into the land where there are rivers of milk and honey."


Is this to mean because Moses did not speak to the rock but used his stick instead he did not follow God's instructions, or have faith in him?

 

[Aqualung]

It's because he didn't bother to tell the people that God was giving him the power to break the rock. He was angry and cocky and let the powers he had strike fear into the hearts of the men. Rather than doing it for the glory of God, he did it for his own glory to make the people shut up.

 

[jacquie4000]

Second question Then when they were to go into batte The Lord commanded Aaron would not be joining them it was time for him to join his ancestos in death due to his rebellion concerning the water at Meribah. What was Moses's penalty or was their none?

 

[*Paul*]

Second question Then when they were to go into batte The Lord commanded Aaron would not be joining them it was time for him to join his ancestos in death due to his rebellion concerning the water at Meribah. What was Moses's penalty or was their none?

Moses does not get to enter the promised land:


Deuteronomy 32:48-52 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.