Moses Sins by Twice Striking the Rock (Numbers 20) | Michael Morales

Because Moses twice struck the rock, God forbade him from leading the people into the Promised Land (Numbers 20).

Why such a severe punishment for something that, at first glance, appears like a minor infraction, especially since earlier in Exodus 17 God did tell Moses to strike a rock to bring forth water?

Dr. Michael Morales joins me on What in the Word? to discuss.

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The Cry of Dereliction (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34) | Tom McCall

What should make of Jesus’s cry from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Does this signal a rapture in the Trinitarian relationship between Father and Son? Does it reflect the Son’s experience of the Father’s wrath? Or do these read more into the text than is actually there? And how does Jesus’s quotation of Psalm 22 inform his words?

Tom McCall joins me on What in the Word? to discuss.

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