Numbers 21 ... Viewing the works of God through scripture

 I Cor. 10 ...1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them:and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased:for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 

11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples:and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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Numbers 21 ... 1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. 3 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities:and he called the name of the place Hormah.
 
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom:and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 

5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 

6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
 
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 

8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole:and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Murmuring against God and against ministers appointed by God will not bring favorable consequences to you.  All these scriptures should teach us that. 

When discouraged, what must we do?  We must not ignore the discouragement.  We must instead be very diligent to take spiritual action which is by prayer, turning to God with all our heart, asking God to help us and to show us HIS way in the midst of the discouragement.  We have so many examples in the Old Testament showing the great danger when we fail to turn to God.

All these thing happened, says Paul, for ensamples:and they are written for our admonition, I Cor. 10

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Numbers 21 ... 21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 Let me pass through thy land:we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well:but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border:but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness:and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon:for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities:and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

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Numbers 21 ...   31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan:and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 

34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not:for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 

35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive:and they possessed his land.

When God tells us something that is what we do and it works. This is always our path.