Numbers 11-14: Bitter pills of unblief

After numbering off the warriors and laying down more laws, the Israelites offer sacrifices to be used in the tabernacle, all seems good until the complaining begins.

People desired to return to Egypt because they were sick of eating mana, so they complained
People did not believe that God would give them the land so they did not obey God to go and fight, but spread fear of their enemies to others and wanted to go back to Egypt.

After their initial disobedience people did not believe that God is no longer giving them the land so they went up to fight and were defeated.

Here's a couple of things I noticed

• The root of disobedience is not believing in God's promises
• The result is not acting when you are supposed to and acting when you are not supposed to act, and an exaggeration of the goodness of the former things (they were slaves in Egypt, yet they remembered supposedly the abundance of fish, meat, melons, onions...)
• Even though sins are forgiven, there is still consequences of sin in this life
• Parallel with Lot's wife who longed after Sodom after leaving
• Parallel with the NT's warning of longing after this world and sin after coming to the knowledge of the gospel
• The remedy for unbelief is belief, holding unto God's promises, parallel with NT is believing the things unseen and are to come is better than what is seen now.
• What do I do after sinning? Is it to accept Lord's forgiveness and consequences or is it to try and make things better myself?