Hobab is asked to guide the great multitude as they travel. This is the original brother-in-law job [literally]. How much leading does he really do? Isn't God as a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night actually doing the leading? So what's Hobab really doing?
Oh, I think we go that way. Why Hobab? Because that's the way the pillar of fire is traveling. Gotcha.
Hobab is a great symbol of how it's really God that does any job we take credit for. You think Hobab took pride and bragged at all that he was leading the camp? Everyone around him would have been rolling their eyes because they all know God is really doing the work whether Hobab gives Him the credit or not. It sounds absurd given God's leadership was so obvious and dramatic. But was Hobab any more absurd than we are today? God is obviously leading us and blessing us and empowering us and we take pride in what we've accomplished. Father, forgive us.
Plague 2 - God is visiting plague's on the people as they doubt and grumble and show such little faith. Do these plagues remind them of the plagues He rained down on the Egyptians to free His people? Are these plagues intended to free them, too. How many plagues will there be and will they parallel in any way the plagues in Egypt. We'll have to take a look and see. Here, the Lord strikes them with a "severe plague" because of their grumbling about manna and their desire for meat.
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