The children of Israel had watched Egypt go down hard. A nation of slaves had just walked out on the most powerful nation on the face of the earth and deliverance was theirs.

Hundreds of years of slavery were wiped out… and they complain. They get outside of Egypt and all of a sudden Egypt sounds like Disney World. They think of the great food!

³ The Israelites said to them, “Oh, how we wish that the LORD had just put us to death while we were still in the land of Egypt. There we could sit by the pots cooking meat and eat our fill of bread. Instead, you’ve brought us out into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death.” (Ex. 16:3, CEB)

I find that what happened was their lack of knowledge in the Holy One. One thing I notice in reading the Scriptures is this: we trust who we know. Israel had difficulty knowing God.

Failure to trust God causes us to think fondly of Egypt.

We trust who we know.

Egypt is a lie. The Kingdom is reality.