The Manna of the Desert Period (1)

"And the children of Israel also wept again, and said, 'Who shall give us flesh to eat.'" Numbers 11:4b. Having brought His people -- the people of Israel -- out of the land of Egypt, the Lord led them into the wilderness of Sinai. It was, to be sure, a terrible wil­derness, wherein were firey serpents, and scorpions, and drought, and where there was no water, Deut. 7:15. But the Lord did a new thing. In the words of the sacred writer at Deut. 32:10, He made a way for His people through the...