Numbers 13

"Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” vv.30-31

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So twelve leaders of the twelve tribes are sent to explore the land the Lord was to give them. And when they came back after forty days they said it was just as the Lord described it would be, yet although it was as God said they didn't believe they could have it. Caleb was the only one (later we see that Joshua too) that trusted God's power and promise of the land to be theirs to possess despite the obstacles that blocked the belief of the other men. What was that intimidated them was the Nephilim, descendants of Anak, called giants in some translations. If you remember from Genesis 6, "There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown." So the nephilim were half man half angels; fallen angles that were trying to destroy the seed of the woman for the Christ to come. You can kind of imagine what they were like, humans with superpowers is how I picture it and definitely bigger than humans as the men looked at them and were intimidated by them. How often do we let obstacles despair us of having the abundant life God has for us, not trusting it's as sure as He said. Let us be like Caleb and have faith in God and not dismay by sight of Satan's schemes. What giants are causing you to not enter in to God's promises and trust?